Like nearly 4 million other Brits, I was glued to the quarterfinals of The Great British Bake Off last Tuesday evening. Who would have thought that watching four women grapple with iced buns, wrestle croissants into shape and take on the art of patisserie would be so compelling? Well, I certainly wasn’t alone. “A perfectly [...]
Archive for October 3rd, 2011
Raspberry genoise mousse cake (…sort of…)
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged cake, cream, difficult, fail, gelatin, genoise sponge, Great British Bake Off, layer, Mary Anne Boermans, mousse, raspberry, strawberry, Tom Parker Bowles, tricky on October 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Autumn salad
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged autumnal salad, balsamic, beetroot, butternut squash, dressing, food, halloumi, lemon, recipe, roasted, rocket, salad, tahini on October 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
My friend summed up British pessimism the other day: “Every day that I wake up and see the sun’s still shining, it fills me with dread, because I know we’re going to pay when the weather breaks.” Food blogs are going mad with homemade lemonade, barbecues and ice cream…so I thought that I’d post something [...]