Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Dessert, Double cream, Egg yolks, Ice cream, Leftover ingredients, tagged white chocolate on December 4, 2011| 11 Comments »
I cannot believe it’s been nearly two weeks since I last posted. Did you miss me? Did you cry a bit? Did you even notice? You didn’t, did you? Hmph. I’ll just console myself with this ice cream and NOT GIVE YOU THE RECIPE. Just kidding. Please come in!
Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Dessert, Egg yolks, Ice cream, Mousse on November 14, 2011| 13 Comments »
I hadn’t planned to make this and it isn’t often that I spontaneously bake. Usually because I don’t have time in between all the planned baking! But after making macaroons I found myself with some spare egg yolks and it seemed a shame to throw them away. I knew I’d seen several recipes in my new Green and Black’s cookbook that only used egg yolks, and, as they all contain chocolate, I knew I’d want to make pretty much all of them! It was difficult deciding which to make (dark chocolate and cardamom ice cream? buttermilk and bitter chocolate ice cream? gooey chocolate puddings?) but I’ve never made parfait before so I decided to try something new. It was a good decision! Give me parfait!
Posted in Baking, Biscuits/Cookies, Egg yolks, tagged baking, chocolate chip, cookies on October 12, 2011| 5 Comments »
So guess what. Before this recipe, I’d never made chocolate chip cookies. I know. Mental. But I really hadn’t. Ever. When I realised this, I wondered why I hadn’t. But now I know: I was waiting for this recipe to come along, so that my first attempt would be AWESOME. Wait! There’s cookies!
Posted in Bacon, Creme fraiche, Egg yolks, Main dish, Pasta, Poultry, tagged bacon, carbonara, chicken, pasta on September 4, 2011| 5 Comments »
As I love to add courgette to EVERYTHING, I was excited when I saw a recipe for Courgette carbonara a couple of years ago in Jamie at Home by Jamie Oliver. I copied out the recipe and I’ve made it often ever since. Except that I haven’t, really. I’ve changed it every time until it’s morphed into something which doesn’t really resemble Jamie Oliver’s recipe at all, other than the fact that it has courgette in it. So I’m claiming it as my own. Is that too cheeky? (more…)
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 Baking, Bananas, Cupcakes, Double cream, Egg yolks, Mascarpone, tagged banoffee, cupcakes, tiramisu on July 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
Did I mention my sister graduated last month? With a 2:1? She’s very smart. And here is another reason she’s smart: to celebrate, she requested Tiramisu and Banoffee cupcakes. Yum yum yum. (more…)
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