not many people are keen on panettone – is it bread or cake? It’s too dry to be cake but not doughy enough to be bread. What do you have it with? How do you slice it? How do you serve it? Are those raisins and bits of candied peel?
Tag: dessert
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…
Salted Caramel Panna Cotta
Salted Caramel Panna Cotta Typing those four words has made my mouth water! Classic panna cotta is normally served with a strawberry coulis to off-set the silky-white texture of the creamy panna cotta. At the very least, slices of strawberry or other fruit will be used to finish the dish – even if just as…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
… others prefer a squidgy, fudgy, almost butterscotch, straight out of the oven chocolate chip cookie…
Cake
“The reassuring ritual of quietly weighing out butter, sugar, flour, cracking eggs, whisking, beating and folding”
Let’s get ready to crumble…
A crumble is a great way to use fruit that you bought thinking would ripen and is still rock hard weeks later or a glut of fruit that you bought on offer and you need to use up…fast!
Pears
A quintessential autumnal fruit is the pear. Once I see pears-a-plenty I know autumn is here…Outshined by apples every year, however, I find the pear just as versatile in the kitchen.
Baked Chocolate Puddings
As a cook, I compartmentalise chocolate into two groups. First: normal everyday milk chocolate bars full of sugar, biscuits, dried fruits or nuts that seduce us with glittery, colourful wrappers; appealing to the inner child. They serve as a mere sugar rush, a boost of energy to keep me going through the day. Second: dark…
Easter Eggs
Having just come out of the Easter Long-Weekend, what everyone is in agreement with is, that no matter what, Easter is all about CHOCOLATE! Even more so than Christmas, in particular, the now traditional chocolate eggs. But where did this tradition come from? There are two ideas here that intertwine to the point where we gift eachother…
Panna Cotta
There’s always room for dessert! You sit down at your local trattoria to stay out of the lunchtime sun knowing exactly what you’re going to have for dessert – panna cotta. More grown up than ice-cream but just as cooling and light. You plan your antipasti and primo piatto with this in mind, making sure…
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