Kiflice are not well known in the UK. I’ve not eaten kiflice before but they sounded delicious, a buttery bread roll filled with salty white cheese.
Pumpkin Crostata With Chocolate Mousse Topping
Pasta frolla is versatile: it provides the base to make crostata with fruit preserves, pastry cream, fresh fruit, ricotta, and other ingredients, and, by itself, it makes very nice cookies.
Mini Blackberry Crumbles with Apple (Gluten Free)
Apples are what I have though, not enough to supply a cottage industry but enough to make a few puddings and possibly some apple chutney and sauces for the freezer.
Daim Cupcakes with Dulce de Leche Buttercream
These cupcakes are studded with dime bar pieces although you could just as easily use the more widely available whole Dime bars smashed into shards.
Winter Wonderland Cupcakes
My son has a favourite game on in the Christmas section of the Cbeebies website, we call it the ice skating game. It’s on the site all year through so he actually discovered it in July but I’ve been suggesting it to him to play now. The background music echoes like in an ice rink, […]
Cherry Chelsea Buns
I recently received a bag of very strong Canadian bread making flour from Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference range and prepared to get kneading. Not being an experienced bread maker, I don’t know enough to compare this flour with other brands but soon I hope to change all that.
Pumpkin Cupcakes With Cinnamon Buttercream
This recipe has been adapted from the Primrose Bakery recipe. Whenever I’m donating cakes I use baking margarine to cut down on costs but you can replace this with butter if you prefer. I would always use butter for buttercream though. I decorated them with silver balls and dragees, partly because my husband hates them and I seem to be over run with them. They could just as easily be decorated with sugar spiders and used for Hallowe’en.
Leon Spitalfields
The quirky interior of Leon is a mix of industrial metal and worn wooden furniture. You can imagine these chairs were probably in a draughty Victorian church or a school until they were reborn here!
Waitrose Cookery School – Macaron Class
If you ever wanted to make perfect macarons this beginners macaron class at Waitrose cookery school is just the biscuit.
Cobnut Pesto Pasta – and autumn in Walthamstow Village
Today’s dish of pesto pasta salad can be served warm or cold, it is ideal for making in bulk at parties, indeed it is my usual savoury contribution to short notice gatherings. If you make it with jarred pesto and keep a vacuum pack of olives in the cupboard and toss in some frozen peas you can make it entirely with store cupboard ingredients.
Itsu Canary Wharf
Itsu is pricier than Yo! with the average price of dishes being £4-5 (mostly £5) compared to £2-5 it’s cheaper counterpart.
Ajvar Serbian Red Pepper Salsa
Ajvar can be hot or not, so add red chillis if you want spice and leave them out if you don’t. Ajvar can be used to top meat, cous cous or my particular favourite, to mix with scrambled eggs as a kind of piperade.
