Archive for the 'Sweetness' Category
Blackberry Fool
We picked up some really nice looking blackberries yesterday but when we came to eat them they were really sharp. We decided to make them into blackberry fool but substituted the mascarpone for some leftover cream cheese. The result was very cheesecake-like, which I liked but Stephen wasn’t that keen on.
Read More..>>Friends for Dinner
Last night, we had some friends over for dinner. We started with asparagus and the same dressing we made last week: Next, we had rosemary and garlic lamb, crushed new potatoes, fresh peas, runner beans and winter greens: And finally, elderflower jelly with summer fruits and vanilla ice-cream: The jellies, based on a Mark Hix […]
Read More..>>Chocolate Brownies
I was quite flattered today to be asked to bake something for a colleague who is leaving on Friday. Flattered but frightened because I’m not much of a baker. Something about the preciseness of the measuring and the weighing and the mixing and the folding. I like to taste as I go along and add […]
Read More..>>Ice Cream
Probably my favourite ice cream comes from Marine Ices in Chalk Farm. I first found it on a late night excursion with my best friend who told me how she used to have her birthday parties there when she was small, the best part about it being the ice-cream birthday cake that they served. Stephen […]
Read More..>>Brrr
It’s been lovely and bright and quite warm lately but today was cold, it even snowed briefly. After lots of tidying up in the garden we came inside and cooked a warming casserole. The afternoon was spent reading the papers and after an early shower I thought some hot chocolate would be just the thing […]
Read More..>>Happy Pancake Day!
Wow, two food festivals in one week! Tonight, we made pancakes. Stephen had a variety, one with leftover meatballs, one with lemon and sugar and this one, that I made for him. Chocolate spread with raspberries. I thought of it too late though so the raspberries were still frozen. This would have been ok if […]
Read More..>>Battle Of The Baking Trays
Since we began making muffins, we’ve been using small, fairy cake trays. They work ok but not brilliantly. Last week, my mum bought us a silicone muffin tray and a friend bought us a heavy, metal muffin tray. This morning, Stephen decided to put them both to the test. So far, the silicone is the […]
Read More..>>Muffins
I made bran and raisin muffins for breakfast on new year’s day. The recipe, given to me by Stephen’s mum, said two and a half cups of sugar which sounded a lot so I left some out. The result? Needed more sugar. And maybe some cinnamon. I think I also need one of those (red) […]
Read More..>>Chocolate Spread on Toast
It’s not big, and it’s not clever, but boy does it taste good 🙂
Read More..>>Pocky!
Last night we went to dinner in Chinatown and dined on various Shanghai specialties at eCapital. No alcohol-affected trip to Chinatown is complete without a post-dinner pocky trip. We visited two super-happy-fun pocky stockists and chose a selection of their finest offerings. From left to right in the picture: Men’s pocky, almond crush pocky and […]
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