Tag Archives: Nuts
ROCKET PESTO
Rocket pesto : a nice change using peppery rocket (arugula), sweet pecans & parmesan Continue reading
BAKED APPLES
Baked apples a great easy apple desert Continue reading
ALMOND BUTTER
ALMOND BUTTER : Every once and a while I get a hankering for peanut butter. But I normally put it aside when faced with the astronomical price of Sfr 5 (~$5) for a small 250g jar. In Switzerland peanut butter does not … Continue reading
FESENJAN : lamb recipe
FESENJAN : Persian lamb recipe Don’t you just love how life has little culinary surprises in store for you… This year we spent New Years Eve in a quaint Swiss chalet, nestled in the mountains of Eastern Switzerland. It was … Continue reading
ALMOND COOKIES
HONEY ALMOND COOKIES Leafing through my cookbooks in preparation for Christmas baking, I realised that cookie making really falls into three main categories: drop cookies cut-out cookies cylinder cookies DROP COOKIES: are those that require just a finger and a spoon, to drop small quantities … Continue reading
ALMOND CAKE
ALMOND CAKE {GATEAU AUX AMANDES}: I think my pantry has been learning old tricks from the washing machine – you put two socks in and only one comes out…. you place a packet of almonds in the pantry and they vanish – … Continue reading
CHESTNUT YOGHURT CAKE
CHESTNUT YOGURT CAKE It seems as though every culture has their own, good oldfashioned, mother’s milk cake - the Chinese have their pound cake, the English their victoria sponge, the French love a moist ‘quatre quart’ as do the Swiss, and I was … Continue reading
GRANOLA
GRANOLA: To be or not to be a breakfast person, that is the question … I for one used to fall into the latter category… a category reserved for those of us who don’t do mornings… rush out the door … Continue reading
BUCKWHEAT BLINIS WITH RED PEPPER & NUT CAVIAR
{BLINIS AU CAVIAR DE POIVRON ROUGE ET NOIX} With my recent engagement, and hence the beginning stages of wedding planning (wonderful but ever time consuming!) I have been MIA from Sweet Pea for the past 2 weeks. I thought what better for … Continue reading
