Its strawberry season (well it has been for a while) and while I’ve religiously been eating my doze of fresh strawberries, my baking obsession with strawberry, as you may have witnessed, repeatedly, and thenagain, has somewhat inexplicably not kicked in this year. But finally I have succumbed, and tweaked this easy peasy chocolate squeezey recipe with strawberry. […] Read more…
There has been a significant amount of undocumented baking over the last month, including the best apple crisp, with vanilla bean and bourbon, good ol’ red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, made green for Xmas cheer, and some spiced gingerbread cookies, with lemon butter-cream frosting. Before all this, was a nearly week long […] Read more…
I am smitten. When I read that one of my favourite blogs, Smitten Kitchen, had launched their first ever cookbook, I couldn’t sit still until I had ordered my very own hardbound personal copy of the pure genius that goes into each and every fabulously well balanced and perfectly seasoned recipe. In that honour, and due to plentiful leftover diwali fruit by the dozen (I blame my grandmother), and not to forget, plentiful time on my hands due to the City being literally locked down, I used my powers for good (well, and gluttony) to patiently roll out the pastry, slice them apples, bubble the salted caramel and eat it with a big scoop of purely indulgent velvety vanilla ice cream. Not a wasted Sunday in the least!
On a side note, is anyone else obsessed with puff pastry? It somehow manages to uplift my mood and make the world a happier, butter-ier place. Everyone who travels with me thinks I need a bit of, well, *help*, simply because I can’t resist purchasing a truck load of goodies Read more…
There has been a significant amount of chatter, adorationand an inexplicable desire of emulationwhen I see Donna Hay donning this ‘oh so simple’ attitude towards every even not so simple preparation. You fight different battles in different places. My battle is always against the quality and temperature of the dairy products I find here. But […] Read more…
I dream this sweet dream every [dreadful] Monday morning. In this dream, a fresh batch of espresso oatmeal cookies are cooling on a wire rack, next to a piping hot cuppa green tea, all whilst rain pitter patters down the queen’s necklace. And as you all know, dreams have no Mondays, or else they’d […] Read more…
Red Wine, Balsamic Vinegar, Vanilla Bean This is an incredibly Italian inspired recipe, traditionally made in Italy and called a Torta di Cioccolato di Olio di Oliva, it simply replaces the butter or vegetable oil for olive. The result is a moist, dense and loaf like cake, more bready than cakey, with an amazing olive […] Read more…
