Nothing is better than freshly baked bread. It smells gorgeous, it looks fantastic, you can do all sorts of things with it, and kneading is very therapeutic. For that reason I’d recommend not using any kind of machine; it just feels better to do it naturally. (Okay, an electric/gas oven is allowable!)
This particular recipe is […]
This dish is quite simple and was invented to be a delicious, warming supper. Gnocchi is a bit like pasta, but made from potatoes and shaped into elongated balls. You can usually find it with fresh pasta in the supermarket. It is very filling, so this dish goes quite a long way, and would go […]
This is a minor issue, and maybe not worthy of being called a technique, but it is something I think is important:
Don’t serve tomatoes from the fridge.
There, I’ve said it. Tomatoes are delicious fruits, not too sweet, and are best served at room temperature, where the aromas can be released and you can actually taste […]
One of my favourite cuisines is Indian. Many people claim not to like India food, thinking it will be too spicy to eat. This will not be the case! Both these dishes are flavourful spicy rather than hot spicy (leave out the chilli if you are very averse to heat.) Also, once you have a […]
This is the final instalment in my series on combining lime and chocolate in desserts. This is one of my favourite desert recipes in the whole wide world.
Thinking back to the chocolate and lime brownies, the lime flavour compromised the essential rich nature of the brownies. However, chocolate mousse seems to be some kind of […]
This is the second article in a series on chocolate and lime. This is the final experimental recipe I created that used chocolate and lime. I am fairly pleased with the result, but it is not perfect. I think perhaps brownie is meant to focus on the rich, sweet, overpowering nature of chocolate, and any […]
I very much like chocolate deserts. In this three part post, I will be talking about my favourite type of desert along with my favourite citrus fruit: lime!
Before I created these recipes with lime and chocolate, I spent a while working with lemon and chocolate. I was convinced that lemon could powerfully complement chocolate, but […]
