Lancaster Tart
The toddler’s lurgy has struck down both Rich and I so there’s been little energy for standing around in the kitchen. But tummies still need to be filled and a sweet tooth satisfied. Quick and easy has...
View ArticleChocolate Espresso Tart
Yes, I know. A tart for two posts running but this one is a different. More grown-up. A rich chocolate espresso tart. So rich that you only need a small slice and coming from a fully fledged chocoholic...
View ArticleJubilee No-bake Cheesecake
Well I couldn’t let talk of picnics this summer go by without sharing a pudding with you. Especially when it’s in a rather patriotic red, white and blue. These individual no bake cheesecakes are just...
View ArticleDaim bar semifreddo which was actually meant to be pistachio.
I don’t own an ice-cream maker. In fact my kitchen is rather lacking in the gadget department and most things are done by hand. I have a food processor that I use nowhere near as much as I could...
View ArticlePeach and Strawberry Clafoutis
You know when you make something and it just wasn’t what you expected it to be? My parents came for lunch on Sunday. Roast chicken, as always, and pudding to be cobbled together from some bordering on...
View ArticleWe should Cocoa: Black Forest Trifle
We all have our perfect comfort food and for Rich it’s trifle. And with him having a, um, rather delicate operation over the weekend he was in need of some spoiling. As he also has a fondness for...
View ArticleApple crumble cheesecake bars
I’m refusing to put the heating on. Not that it would really do much good. We have the old style storage heaters that take 24 hours to heat up and then half-heartedly puff out breaths of tepid air for...
View ArticleKenwood Christmas Menu – Chocolate and chestnut roulade
We are not traditionalists when it comes to the menu at Christmas and that includes the pudding. For the Kenwood Christmas menu we’re moving from a spot of festive baking with Lebkuchen to thinking...
View ArticleRaspberry and dark chocolate frozen yogurt
I feel like I should start this post with some kind of disclaimer. In many ways I am a typical Brit, I love to chat about and, especially, complain about the weather. I will happily moan that it is too...
View ArticleRecipe: Use it all up fruit pie
Oh September, how I love you with your promise of freshly sharpened pencils, blank notebooks and the joy of new boot shopping yet to come. September always means new starts to me, probably more so then...
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