One of my saddest moments happened when I went to boarding school aged thirteen. It wasn’t down to feelings of abandonment or any old-fashioned fagging system. But I came face to face with the stark reality that normal people didn’t eat ice cream for breakfast. Five years of toast. Boring. Mum always had a liberal [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’
Häagen-Dazs taste testing
Posted in News, Uncategorized, tagged breakfast, chocolate, competition, cranberries, cream, final, flavour, fruit, green tea, Häagen-Dazs, HD ice cream, ice cream, Leicester Square, pralines and cream, strawberries and cheesecake, taste, taste test on December 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Cooking olives with Omar Allibhoy: deep fried, with chocolate, in ratatouille…
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, News, Uncategorized, tagged batter, chocolate, clerkenwell, food at 52, manchego, mediterranean, olives, Omar Allibhoy, sea bass, spain, spanish, tapas, tapenade on October 29, 2011 | 8 Comments »
It’s rare that you remember your first acquaintance with new food – I don’t remember my first cheese sandwich or my first sip of orange juice. But I do remember eating my first olive. I was about 14 years old –round the same time that I decided to like stilton and red wine. It’s not [...]
Banana split breakfast
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged bananna split, breakfast, chocolate, ice cream, naughty on July 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When your boyfriend has gone away on business, and it’s an uninspiring Saturday morning, then this is a sure fire way to perk yourself up. Yum yum!
Cloud Forest Chocolate Cake
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged almond, birthday, cacao, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, cloud forest chocolate cake, willie harcourt-cooze, willie wonka on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted for so long…and I’m not proud of it. To start with I had toothache for about three weeks, and the last thing I felt like was cooking-least alone eating and writing about it. …the thing is that after dejecting the blog for so long, it becomes hard to get back in the [...]
New Magnum Launch
Posted in News, tagged 10.5 tonnes, chana, chocolate, chocolate room, chocolate wallpaper, ecuador, food, hotel room, ice cream, karl lagerfeld, lagerfeld, magnum, magnum launch, muse on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As the head designer and creative director for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld (pictured) is most at home crafting little black dresses. But he’s temporarily swapped catwalk modeling for chocolate modeling as part of a magnum advertising campaign to launch the new Magnum Ecuador and Ghana ice creams. The designer used 10.5 tonnes of chocolate (the equivalent [...]
Profiteroles
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged butter, chocolate, choux pastry, cream, easy, eggs, flour, food, home made, homemade, improvise, make, piping bag, profiterole, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, sauce, simple, the food i eat, thefoodieat on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Generally speaking, homemade food beats convenience food hands down. When I decided that I was going to make profiteroles, my mind did flick to the pudding isle in the local Sainsburys where you can buy a heap of them for a couple of pounds though. It does make you wonder whether it’s worth the amount [...]