The best thing about pancakes is that they are very difficult to get wrong!
Category: Weekend
French Toast
Cinnamon & Vanilla flavoured French Toast is great as it is but I always like mine topped with some fruit compote or even a drizzle of maple syrup or if I’m being particularly greedy, both.
Sunday Morning Madeleines
I walked up to my front door to find that there was a bright red present tied with white and blue ribbon waiting at its feet. It felt as if I had just received my first valentine card…the excitement, the joy, the intrigue. Ripping through the wrapping, I found myself faced with a metal madeleine…
Fresh Pasta – Tortellini
A couple of years ago, or was it last year? I was given a pasta machine for my birthday. And whether this was a gift given out of love or the thought that I’d be inviting people around to eat fresh pasta on a regular basis I don’t know BUT what I do know is…
Cake
“The reassuring ritual of quietly weighing out butter, sugar, flour, cracking eggs, whisking, beating and folding”
Americana
Of all the places I have travelled to, New York aka New Yoik, is still one of my favourite destinations. Having been there on three seperate occasions with three different groups of people, I can encouragingly recommend this place to everyone. Other than the typical tourist attractions statue of liberty, times square, central park, etc which I will…
Weekend – Sunday
Pancakes…mmmmm! Which type should I make? American style, french crêpe, ricotta hotcakes, galette, gridle cake, pfannkuchen, pannenkoeken, poffertjes, palacinky, palacsinta, blini, drop scones, pikelets, crumpets, waffles the list goes on. Or so the internet tells me! “Ultimately, all of the above are a variation on a theme.” They all have flour, milk and eggs. Some…
Weekend – Saturday
Hard as it may seem, it had felt as if I had not thrown myself into the kitchen for a while. So at some quiet moment on Friday, between breakfast and after work beers (of which there were lots) I sat down with orange post-it notes and pen in hand and decided on cooking/baking that…
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