Bunny cupcake 1 Originally uploaded by framboise. Instead of orange curd in tonight’s cupcakes, we used mango sorbet. The slight tartness of the sorbet works well with the sweet orange cupcake. Also read today that the theme for the 14th “Is my blog burning” event, hosted by Foodgoat, is to be orange. Oh well, I’ll […]
Dough balls Originally uploaded by framboise. Was reading the Delicious Days food blog, and saw a recipe for these fantastic dough balls. They’re just like the moreish pizza balls at Pizza Express that everyone fights over. So I thought I’d give them a try today. I don’t usually have fresh yeast lying around, and have […]
Orange cupcakes Originally uploaded by framboise. Made some orange mini cakes tonight. Found the recipe on deliaonline.com. We have a teeny weeny bit of orange curd in the store cupboard (purchased from the “Good morning young lady” honey stall at the Edinburgh Farmers’ Market), so I decided to just use that instead of making it […]
Recipe from Nigel Slater’s Real Fast Food. He suggests frying some fingers of bread in butter, but I thought that might just be a little too much, and toasted it till quite crisp instead. For two (I halved it for my own-some): Sufficient bread, cut into fingers 75g butter (I used a small knob: ~10g, […]
Craved some biscuits to go with our after-dinner tea, and decided to try out a Green and Black’s inspired shortbread recipe. I used my now favourite shortbread proportions (6-4-2), and made two lots: one regular plus a dash of ground cinnamon and quick grate of nutmeg, and the other with 4 1/2 oz flour plus […]
Tonight’s dinner: Agedashi tofu and courgette omelette. Recipe for agedashi tofu: Take some silken tofu, and drain on kitchen towels for 20 min. Heat an inch or two of corn oil in a wok/pan until just before it starts to smoke. Coat the tofu cubes in some potato flour, and place carefully in the oil. […]
I’ve been reading a few food blogs this evening: Cooking with Amy I was just really very hungry Delicious Days Chocolate and Zucchini Is my blog burning And I was thinking of how much I’m going to miss having a decent sized kitchen, not that there’s even enough space in it now. I’m given to […]
A rather blurry shot of a piece of shortbread I baked yesterday for some friends who are doing some DIY in their new flat and havenae time to eat, let alone cook. I used a 6-4-2oz recipe, which gave a much better hold than my usual 2-2-1 proportions. The 6-4-2 recipe is just right for […]
Another super easy G&B recipe. Yum! Decided to split the 2lb recipe so we could bring some small cakes with us to Skye. Can’t walk very far without the occasional carbohydrate snack to sustain us. The 1lb loaf took 35min at 180degC (150degC in my fan oven), and the 6 little loaves took about 25min. […]
In an oriental mood today; made some onigiri to take to friends’ for dinner. Used 3 cups of short-grain rice and followed my usual sushi rice recipe (Yasuko-san’s website has a good graphical guide). Not having a triangular mould for onigiri, I used my half and quarter measuring cups to pack the rice in. By […]
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