Restaurant food at home
If you are looking for a special dessert to prepare for the festive season this will get family and friends purring. Rather than your usual timing issues with a normal hot chocolate fondant, this is foolproof make ahead version. It will get just as many plaudits as the hot one. […]
This is quite a simple dessert that will have your guests amazed. It is a slight cheat on a ravioli, pineapple slices are softened in an acidic sweet syrup. You then lay one as the base and stuff another placed on top to make it look like a ravioli. The […]
This contemporary fat rascal came about from a vintage memory. I remember having my first fat rascal long ago and always wanted to make my own. Well, I went one step further and turned the entire thing into a dessert. A fat rascal is far easier to make, but this […]
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Ok, ok so I didn’t make another cake especially, but transformed another half of the polenta cake I had made a few days earlier. This time I made a rose syrup to moisten the cake even more, sat it on a pomegranate molasses syrup and topped with pistachio ice cream. […]
This delightful little orange syrup drenched cake is a hit at any time of day. The fairly sweet cake is matched with a less sweet almost cheescake taste of the ricotta ice cream. Plus the ice cream is simple to make. I married it together with a basil and mint […]
I can’t quite believe it myself. The ice cream was good, I made it slightly less sweet than normal, so as to balance the praline. The praline though is a taste sensation, the bacony scent of pumpkin seeds, with a touch of salt gave an incredible sweet/salty balance. If nothing […]
Apart from having sensitive teeth, I believe everyone loves ice cream. So I will continue making some more interesting ones that you can’t buy in the shops. Standby for Butternut Squash with pumpkin seed praline next week. I have been meaning to use coconut milk in ice cream for ages, […]