Tag Archives: passionfruit

Passion fruit curd cake

What came first? Oh the horrid poultry question that endless drunken nightmare conversations have failed to answer. But I can tell you that the idea of the cake came first, after the purchase and subsequent wrinkling of the passion fruit, but before the making of the curd. I could draw you a timeline, like an [...]

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Passionfruit Curd

Chúc mừng năm mới! Happy lunar new year! I am still learning what this means and how it is celebrated here in Hanoi, but I now know that it involves precarious transportation of plants, chưng cake and human chess at the temple of literature. For me it meant forced hibernation, cups of tea, icy strolls [...]

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Tropical custard and jelly, almost trifle.

A few months ago when I was floored by the scent of passionfruit the cubic megatonne I bought made me think of tart jelly. They sat in wrinkling in the fruit bowl mocking me every time I passed. So jelly it was.
Actually jelly it always is these days. I seem to have an all out jelly obsession, [...]

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Passionfruit Semifreddo

passionfruit_thumbnail Passion fruit, the very description of summer.
Recipes: Passion fruit curd cake, passion fruit curd, Tropical Custard and Jelly, passion fruit semifreddo

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