Tag Archives: SWEET
TARTE TATIN
Tarte Tatin: An upside-down French apple tart made with delicious caramel & golden pastry Continue reading
APPLE CRUMBLE
This apple crumble is an easy recipe – the black sesame seeds and honey make the buttery crumble so fabulous! Continue reading
Oreo
TKO’s : Thomas Keller’s ‘grown-up’ oreo cookies : salty chocolate cookies sandwiching a perfect white chocolate ganache cream Continue reading
CHOCOLATE TART
CHOCOLATE TART : a great chocolate recipe Valentine’s Day – whether you are a fan or not, it is always a good excuse to make something sweet. And what could be better than chocolate. This is an ideal desert as … Continue reading
OATMEAL
OATMEAL An unctuous, warm, stick to your ribs breakfast cereal, made from an easy recipe that can be thrown together in a matter of minutes and eaten with a vartiety of spices, fruits, nuts or just brown sugar. With all … Continue reading
BAKED APPLES
Baked apples a great easy apple desert Continue reading
FIG JAM
FIG JAM – While I was in England I also managed to fit in a little jam making, and not just any jam making, but fig jam, my favourite. As luck would have it my uncle had made friends with one of … Continue reading
CREPE Recipe
Russian crêpes – I used to think that a crêpe was a crêpes was a crêpe. That was until Katya made me her Russian recipe. While the basic ingredients are the same – flour, eggs, milk and butter, the taste … Continue reading
PEACH & GINGER FLOGNARD (Clafouti) Recipe
‘Same Same, But Different’.….This was the slogan written on the shirts my brother brought back from South-East Asia for Olivier’s stag party. Odd that this phrase should pop into my head when cooking but it really does answer the … Continue reading
VIENNESE SHORTBREAD
SHORTBREAD : I have always liked butter…. but in small quantities – feeling that too much of a good thing overwhelms the pleasures of the palate. Unfortunately, when I was a little girl my grandfather did not share these sentiments, and when asked … Continue reading
