Happy Halloween! Did you go to a halloween party? Did you dress up? Did you make halloween-themed baked goods? Did you, did you, did you? Where was it? What did you wear? What did you make? Hmmmmm? I did not go to a party or dress up, but I did make these pretty orange and [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Halloween cupcakes
Posted in Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Double cream, Toffee/Caramel, tagged caramel, chocolate, cupcakes, halloween, pumpkin on October 31, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Caramel apple loaf cake
Posted in Apples, Baking, Fruit, Loaf cake, tagged apples, baking, caramel, fruit, loaf cake on October 31, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I have a soft spot for loaf cakes. They’re not flashy. They don’t need to dress up all pretty. They’re happy just the way they are, simple and tasty. And everyone else is happy with them the way they are too, because they totally rule your face. I wish I were a loaf cake. Or [...]
Tomato and chorizo soup with parmesan
Posted in Chorizo, Leftover ingredients, Main dish, Soup, tagged cooking, soup, tomato on October 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Sometimes The Book People come to my office. When this happens, I accidentally part with money in return for more cookbooks and then I sneak them home and put them on the bookshelf so that I can claim I’ve had them for ages when Chris asks where they’ve come from. Shh. Don’t tell. [...]
Roasted vegetable and tomato tagliatelle with ricotta
Posted in Main dish, Pasta, Ricotta, Vegetarian, tagged aubergine, courgette, pasta, ricotta, vegetarian on October 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Last week, my mum and I went out for tea to Strada. I was getting a little worried looking at the menu because I wasn’t in the mood for much of what was on offer (apart from the desserts, hehe). In the end, we both ended up choosing tomato and roasted vegetable rigatoni topped with [...]
Sticky toffee cupcakes
Posted in Baking, Cupcakes, Toffee/Caramel, tagged baking, cupcakes, dulce de leche, toffee on October 15, 2011 | 15 Comments »
These cakes just say autumn to me (not literally, that would be mental. And would I still have the heart to eat them if they could talk? I’m so glad they can’t talk.). I think it’s the warm, fudgey flavours of the toffee and the autumnal orange of the fudge and icing, and sticky [...]
Chocolate roulade
Posted in Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Swiss roll/roulades, tagged chocolate, cream, roll, roulade on October 11, 2011 | 12 Comments »
If you were to count my chocolate cookbooks (why do I always seem to be counting my cookbooks?), you would find that I have ten of them. Ten cookbooks devoted to chocolate. That is how much I love chocolate. And I have five more on my Amazon wishlist. Why? What is wrong with me? I [...]
Toffee apple cake
Posted in Apples, Baking, Cake, Toffee/Caramel, tagged apple, baking, cake, toffee, toffee apple on October 9, 2011 | 17 Comments »
This weekend I had to go old school with my baking. My electric scales broke and I had to dig out my cheap dial scale I got when I first went to uni which only has marks every 50g. It was scary. It was inaccurate. It was impossible to measure 80g. It… worked! It worked! [...]
Thai massaman curry
Posted in Curry, Main dish, Poultry, Rice, Thai, tagged chicken, curry, massaman, thai on October 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Thai food is another one of those things I missed out on for the first 16 years of my life. In fact, I don’t think I was brave enough to try it until I was at uni. Now it’s one of my favourites and I can’t believe I haven’t got any Thai recipes on the [...]
Baked sausage and mushroom stuffed pasta shells
Posted in Main dish, Mozzarella, Pasta, Sausages, tagged mozzarella, mushroom, pasta shells, sausage, stuffed pasta on October 3, 2011 | 11 Comments »
I did not realise, when I decided to make this, how much of an arse-ache it would be to get pasta shells. I naively went to my usual supermarket and happily (that bit might be a lie, grocery shopping makes me angry) trotted (also a lie, I never trot) up and down the aisles [...]
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