Posts tagged 'recipe' - page 5
19 August 2010
Axel's Raspberry Cheesecake Recipe
My sister and her family came to visit at the weekend, so I was scrabbling around trying to come up with a summery pudding to create, while the rain was gushing down outside in torrents. I decided that roast chicken with all the trimmings, followed...
Read more16 August 2010
A Recipe For Meatballs In Tomato And Red Pepper Sauce
Cooking at home differs from fancy cuisine in restaurants in that it is about compromise. While a top notch chef does not need to compromise on ingredients and quality, at home you need to juggle your precious time with what you have got available i...
Read more14 August 2010
Recipe For Coronation Chicken
I had been looking for an excuse to try a recipe that I had pulled out of The Daily Telegraph from Xanthe Clay's hunt for the Best British Recipes. It is that classic of British fusion cooking and sentimentality for bygone Imperialism (rightly or wr...
Read more11 August 2010
Elsewhere In The Blogosphere - July 2010 (Part 1)
With the summer fruit rolling in, Raspberry Jam is being made at A Slice of Cherry Pie, while at Cannelle et Vanille Aran is inspired by a simple bowl of frozen raspberries and bakes delicious Gluten Free Raspberry Scones and a fancy Heirloom Tomato,...
Read more07 August 2010
Recipe For Almond Cake
This recipe began with a blog post from David Lebovitz, who wrote that his desert island food would be Almond Cake. So with great anticipation, I tried his recipe several weeks back, but while Sophie and I loved the marzipan-almond luxury and the ol...
Read more08 July 2010
Recipe For Pomegranate Barbecue Sauce
We have been asked for some time whether we could source a pomegranate molasses and I am nearly there on that. One of our current suppliers, who is based in Beirut in the Lebanon, sent us a sample of Concentrated Pomegranate Juice which is the same...
Read more05 July 2010
June 2010 Food Blog Round Up
At Chocolate & Zucchini, there is a delicious sounding recipe for sablés from Yves Camdeborde's book Dimanche et Famille. Clotilde Dusolier's blog then sent me around various links on her site to several other biscuit recipes that sound fantasti...
Read more30 June 2010
Recipe For Sweet Pastry Per Pierre Hermé
Having been given a great sweet tart pastry recipe by Anthony Stern from Independent Foods, I have recently come across an even better Sweet Tart Dough in Pierre Hermé’s book “Chocolate Desserts”. I must admit to being given the heads up about the w...
Read more28 June 2010
Simple Burger Recipe - Part 1
Saturday, a cold Saturday a few weekends ago that felt like winter but was meant to be almost midsummer. It felt like a good day to start trying to find the Steenberg family's favourite burger recipe. We tried three recipes which we taste tested si...
Read more21 June 2010
Recipe - Sweet Barbecue Style Chicken Legs
We are always looking for ways to liven up chicken to feed the kids - simple, tasty and quick & easy family food. This recipe is something I devised for Sweet Barbecue Style Chicken Legs is so quick to make that our children both love to help to...
Read more09 June 2010
Recipe - French Tomato Tart
The other day my parents visited from Northumberland, and as it was a gorgeous sunny Thursday, I plucked up the courage to try one of David Lebovitz's recipes. It's always a matter of bravery as I am in awe at other people's ability to make seemingl...
Read more04 June 2010
May 2010 Food Blog Round Up
This month definitely has a seasonal theme of Spring to it. Everyone has recipes for rhubarb, all of which are so much more inspiring than the classic Rhubarb Crumble that I blogged about this month and the rhubarb compote that we have been living o...
Read more24 May 2010
Recipe For Pink Rose Macarons
Pink is one of those colours I have never really liked. However, getting married and then having a daughter have made me accept pink as a colour and slowly but surely start to like pink as long as it is subtle rather than Barbie coloured. Sophie ha...
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