Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Double cream, Egg yolks, Strawberries, Swiss roll/roulades, tagged chocolate, custard, roulade, strawberries, swiss roll on August 30, 2011| 16 Comments »
This started life as a jam and white chocolate roly poly. My Good Food magazine came with a yummy looking dessert on the front and I took it round to Mum’s house to show her. “That looks nice”, she said, “what’s in it?”. “Well, it’s got suet in it…”. This was thoroughly rejected. So I decided to turn it into swiss roll instead. (more…)
Posted in Pizza and calzone, Snacks and sides, tagged cheese, garlic bread, pizza on August 28, 2011| 7 Comments »
If there’s one thing better than garlic bread, it’s garlic bread with cheese. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged candy, chocolate, sweets, truffles on August 27, 2011| 10 Comments »
When I started this blog, I decided I’d join the Daring Bakers. I love trying new recipes, but it’s not very often that I make something which is a big challenge, partly because I don’t have the patience and partly because I’m worried it’ll go wrong. I’ve always, always, always loved the idea of making chocolates, but it always seemed like a right faff, so this month’s challenge gave me the push I needed to finally have a go.
Blog-checking lines: The August 2011 Daring Bakers’ Challenge was hosted by Lisa of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drive and Mandy of What the Fruitcake?!. These two sugar mavens challenged us to make sinfully delicious candies! This was a special challenge for the Daring Bakers because the good folks at http://www.chocoley.com offered an amazing prize for the winner of the most creative and delicious candy! (more…)
Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Maltesers, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged baking, chocolate, fudge, maltesers on August 25, 2011| 7 Comments »
Posted in Creme fraiche, Double cream, Main dish, Pasta, Poultry, tagged cheese, chicken, mushrooms, spaghetti on August 25, 2011| 2 Comments »
A few days ago I saw this recipe and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. I’ll admit, I’ve never actually heard of chicken spaghetti and I have no idea what Velveeta is, but cheese, chicken and mushrooms sounds good to me. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Cheesecake, Dessert, Mexican, Pineapple, tagged cheesecake, pineapple on August 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The last of the weekend’s Mexican recipes is this ace cheesecake. If this cheesecake were a person, it would be Ryan Gosling. Beautiful, yummy and lovely to eat caramel sauce off of. Oh, Ryan Gosling. So perfect. So swoonworthy. How are you not mine? *sigh*
What were we talking about? (more…)
Posted in Beef, Main dish, Mexican, Poultry, tagged barbecue, chicken, mexican, mushrooms, sandwich, steak on August 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The steak sandwich recipe wasn’t meant to be a sandwich. I was flicking through Mexican Food Made Simple and I came across a recipe called “Rib-eye steak with chilli mushrooms”. On the facing page is a picture of the yummiest looking sammich you have ever seen. So I started reading through the recipe and I realised the picture and the recipe didn’t match. At all. But the idea had been planted in my brain, so steak and chilli mushroom sandwich was what we made 🙂 (more…)
Posted in Chorizo, Main dish, Mexican, Mozzarella, Snacks and sides, tagged chorizo, mexican, mushrooms, quesadilla on August 22, 2011| 2 Comments »
*sings* These are so amazing, I could eat them every day! Mushrooms, cheese and chorizo! Tralalalala! Ahem. Make these and invite me round for tea. Thanks. (more…)
Posted in Beef, Main dish, Mexican, tagged burritos, mexican, salsa, steak on August 21, 2011| 8 Comments »
This weekend I went a bit Mexican food crazy. I’ve made steak burritos, mushroom and chorizo quesadillas, barbecued steak and chilli mushroom sandwich, barbecued chicken adobado and a yummy caramel and pineapple cheesecake to finish. So, here is the first of many Mexican recipes to be posted over the next few days. (more…)
Posted in Pizza and calzone, Snacks and sides, tagged garlic bread, pizza on August 18, 2011| 1 Comment »
Garlic bread might be one of my favourite things in the whole world. I love garlic. I love bread. What’s not to like? It also has the added advantage of keeping vampires away, which is nice. (more…)
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