After the last bumper picture packed post I hope you will forgive me for doing a little recycling today. I had so much of the zabaglione, pastry cream, whipped cream and mascarpone mixture left over from assembling the tiramisu that I piped it into glass dishes as a separate dessert. I deliberately made […]
King Cake Dessert: Tiramisu with Southern Comfort
The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession. They wrote, “The perfect Tiramisu is a balance of […]
Postcard from my mother’s narrow boat
“Postcard from” is my regular series of non recipe Saturday mini blog posts. “Really?” people tend to say when I tell them my mother lives on a narrow boat, “What? All the time? Isn’t it cold?” Yes, I reply. All the time for over ten years. And no it isn’t cold because she has central […]
Postcard from… Vannes Brittany part 2
Today’s post is one of my regular series of Saturday non-recipe mini posts, “Postcard from…” Last week I shared pictures of the parade in Vannes, Brittany. Today I am in the mood for something a little “zen” so here are a couple of shots from the hotel garden where we stayed on the same holiday. […]
Arsenal Birthday Cake
Today I had been intending to post pictures of chocolate brioche for the Monthly Mingle organised by Meeta, What’s For Lunch Honey? and hosted this month by my friend Jamie at Life’s A Feast. The ingredients for said chocolate brioche have been taunting me in the kitchen all last week whilst I was busy making […]
Chocolate Crepes Suzette – Spectacular French Flambé Dessert
Chocolate Crepes Suzette is a chocolatey twist on traditional French flambéed pancakes with orange sauce. Since trying them, it’s been hard to imagine Crepes Suzette without chocolate as it works so well. Crepes Suzette is a classic French dessert where pancakes are soaked in orange sauce then flambéd in alcohol. I will forever associate them […]
Chocolate Raspberry Trifles In A Glass
Spotting romantic gestures from my husband requires the expert eye that comes after almost 14 years of being together. I knew to expect this from our first Valentine’s night out together. Trudging around Shepherd’s Bush, totally unprepared, from restaurant to restaurant hunting for a table, we ended up in the usual curry house. I’d […]
Postcard from… Vannes Brittany
Today’s post is one of my regular series of non-recipe mini posts, “Postcard from…” Since it will be Shrove Tuesday this week I thought it appropriate to show somewhere that I associate with crepes for this week’s “Postcard from”. I cannot bring you Mardi Gras in Nice but I can bring you a carnival in […]
Scotch Pancakes Stack with Ice Cream and Whisky Marmalade
This Scotch Pancakes Stack with ice cream and whisky marmalade sauce is a winter dessert that works well for pancake day or even Burns Night, if you celebrate that. Doing so seems increasingly popular even if you’re not Scottish, anything to get us through January eh? This recipe was originally commissioned by Morrison’s Supermarket as […]
Postcard from… Mont Ventoux
Today’s post is from my regular series of weekend non-recipe mini blog posts, “Postcard from…” Mont Ventoux is the highest point in Provence and quite possibly the highest place, bar a skiing trip to Meribel, that I have been. Situated 20km north east of Carpentras in the Vaucluse département, it was a little way off […]
Venison Sausage Toad in the Hole for Two
A smaller version of the British classic Toad in the Hole made with venison sausages serving two people – in this case for Valentine’s Day dinner but suitable all year round. A warning this post involves cruelty to amphibians. I know better now. Kissing frogs has been in the news this week. Apparently, children, inspired […]
White Chocolate Cherry Muffins
Apparently some of you enjoy it when I share my failures here. Normally these are culinary disasters involving chocolate macarons and lurid pink icing for hungry caterpillar cake but today I thought I’d give you a laugh at my first tragic attempt to send a valentines card back in 1989. More dog’s breakfast than valentines […]
