Tag Archives: chocolate
Happy Birthday Felix, have some Idiot Cake
When will I learn? I think I have spoken about this before, my oven is not a good cake oven, I should not make cakes. In fact I have a series of failed cake stories percolating just below the surface. Unfortunately Birthday biscuits or Birthday Custard just really doesn’t have the same ring to them [...]
Budino di riso -
Rice pudding reminds me of winter. Mums version is topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon and nutmeg, wobbly custard top, dense eggy rice bottom. Not gourmet in the least, but reminiscent of a big warm hug. Maurizio Terzini’s Budino di riso, from his book Something Italian, is a like a hug from someone more refined. [...]
Dulche de Leche – Jumping on the bandwagon, again
In Australia we are somewhat shielded from the joys of latin culture. Sydney doesn’t have an expansive ‘Latin American’ town (oh, though I wish it did) and there is much media about the woeful quality of Mexican food here. We are just too far away. So, yay for the internet, I get to read and [...]
Pear, chocolate and almond fabulous crumble.
Oh, I must tell you about this divine crumble. Take a few ripe beurre bosc pears, peel, core and cube. Divide into two ramekins, shake to settle. Break in some dark dark chocolate, top with a few sliced dried apricots (not the cheap, grainy turkish kind, the chewy, tangy and flavoursome halves are better), and [...]
Baby Chocolate Cakes
My kitchen is cramped, no, more than that it is ugly. Ugly to use, and ugly to look at. Hooray for the joys of renting, but I guess it is the luck of the draw (and the dollar) the lovely Miss P is also renting, but she has a beautiful kitchen, so when she asked [...]
