Challenge: To seduce us all with chocolate using any Nigella recipe or adaptation (see notes below). Wearing of black satin dressing gowns to cook in the dark by fairy lights is positively encouraged.
Honey and Pistachio Gibanica – Serbian dessert
Gibanica (ghee-ban-itz-er) is filo pastry baked with yogurt, egg and oil. It frequently includes salty white cheese similar to feta. I have enjoyed the cheese version many times, it’s equally tasty straight from the oven for dinner or cold for breakfast.
With some yogurt and left over filo triangles from a Turkish supermarket I made these mini gibanicas, my version of a Balkan pastry dish.
Cucuron Provence (A Good Year Movie Location)
We drove to Cucuron and discovered the sleepiest of Provencal villages. Streets were deserted. Saucepans belonging to vielle madames clattered as we passed kitchen windows.
Crying over Nigel Slater Toast
Now Nigella Lawson’s Rapid Ragu may sound a darn sight more stylish with it’s panetta and canned puy lentils but it’s not a million miles from those meaty (and slightly freaky) pasta sauces I used to cook up on the kind of cooker that now belongs in the Geffrye Museum.
Galette des Rois French Epiphany Cake
Today’s recipe is possibly the only one I can think of that requires an item of clothing or an accessory to accompany it. France’s Galette des Rois is traditionally served on January 6 for the Feast of the Epiphany marking the end of twelve days of Christmas.
Breakfast Club Yogurt Challenge
When December concludes with an inflated Violet Beauregarde style waddle, January 1st follows with a hand banging forehead Homer Simpson intoned “D’oh!” at the sight of the scales. Moreover if several fitness and dieting related companies approach you to talk about their products it’s time to bite the bullet – or the rice cake as […]
Stollen Disaster
Stollen Bloody Stollen. This monster has sat on my worktop for the past FORTNIGHT
Mich Turner Christmas Cupcake Class
A Mich Turner Cupcake Class for Christmas – at the Make Lounge in Islington.
Banana Cake with Honey and Yogurt
This cake impressed me, it was a majestic size, rises heroically in the oven and slices into fat moist tranches without crumbling. You could walk into any bake sale proud with one of these under each arm.
Smarties Rocky Road
What do you get for being a smartie pants trying to make your cupcakes at the last minute?
Smartie pants rocky road. It’s one step up from cornflake crispies but the bottom line was I knew the children at the disco would enjoy them. Which is what counts.
Nigella Manger Mince Pies
Today’s Christmas Giveaway is for a set of Steenberg’s Christmas Spices Survival kit, Christmas Chai Tea and Steenberg’s Stollen Spice Blend.
Chocolate Chestnut Puddings with Dates – Easy and Festive
Beyond heating cream and blitzing chocolate in the food processor, all you need to do with these puddings is pour into the glasses and lick the spoon afterwards.
