Almondy, buttery goodness with a layer of soft fruit underneath. What's not to love, right? This one is easy to make vegan if you use vegan butter and aquafaba to replace the egg. I love making it in a small, oven safe frying pan because then it's only two (ish) things to wash up and …
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Cypriot Inspired Bread Pudding
Last time I made bread pudding, amongst the wave of Good Old British nostalgia that overtakes me every time I make it, there was a small voice whispering to me as I stirred the milk into the chunks of bread. "Maybe this would work with other flavours. Maybe this would work with tahini. Thought about …
Nigel Slater’s Middle East: Fragrant Lebanese Rice Pudding, a variation
I adore rice pudding. From the vanilla laden stodge in a can which I will eat cold, to the snackpots, and through to the very best baked and sugared topped-with-a-baked-skin that Nans make, I will eat them all and go back for more. It’s nursery food I suppose, but for me it’s definitely a comfort …
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Spelt Flour Koulourakia–Easter Cookies
I try to make these every Easter. Buttery, short cookies that are moreish and come flavoured with orange or lemon or vanilla. As I had no fresh oranges, I decided to go with orange blossom water, orange extract and mastiha, seeing as I had some left over from making the savoury hot cross buns. I …
Strut and Cluck
Last year I raved about Café Murano Covent Garden to anyone who would listen. (It has now become my boss's favourite restaurant.) On our visits we made friends with the flame haired Kelly, who was the Manager. She has the knack of making you feel like you’ve just dropped in for dinner with old …
Cashew Cocoa Iced Dessert
I’ve been reading a lot of the raw/free from food blogs lately, mainly because their Instagram feeds are just so pretty that I get drawn in, but also because Tex and his dad can’t have cream or milk, and Pa also can’t have wheat, so dairy and wheat free free desserts are useful. I’d managed …
Pastry, Baking Blind and a Nice Big Tart
I’m not a pastry maker. More of an eater, for sure, but making it and deploying it seems to be one of life’s mental blocks. Discovering you can make it in a food processor made the Making easier, but the deployment? I’m still pretty cack-handed. This is never going to be me. However, I have …
Melty Nutella Ice-lollies
It’s all Kavey’s fault. Yes it is. She runs a lovely blog, and has a Bloggers Scream For Ice-cream monthly challenge. This month it was ice lollies. My first effort was nice, but way, way too sweet, and failed totally at coming out of my make-shift moulds. (Condensed milk mixed with rhubarb and custard …
Dessert in a hurry!
Did you ever have one of those days where you started off with the greatest of intentions, and planned out what you were going to bake, only to oversleep and have to do it all in a rush? Well, that was my Saturday. It was my own fault, I went out clubbing and we got …
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