Category Archives: sweet
Chocolate and cinnamon meringue
I don’t love macarons. I understand the attraction all crisp, soft and chewy with an acceptance and adaptability to different wild and wonderful flavourings. Sure, I like them and you know I’ll eat them by the bucketload but they don’t make my heart sing. I think I may have suffered a macaron overdose back in [...]
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 [...]
Rum Balls
Rum balls announce Christmas. They shout it out, but not in the overtly commercialised way a candy cane croons, or the gaudy childish way a gingerbread trumpets, or the traditional stoic manner in which Christmas cake proclaims the season. Maybe it is just me, but rum balls are an anytime treat that evoke memories Santa, [...]
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