On Saturday I set about tidying my room. This was even less fun than I expected. Especially on a sunny day, and especially when it took me two hours to clean the goddamned windows. As soon as you start to notice the dust in London that’s the end of it. The only option is to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cream’
Mini Victoria sponge
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged afternoon tea, cream, jam, mini victoria sponge, recipe, victoria sponge on October 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 »
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 [...]
Strawberry, mint and balsamic cheesecake
Posted in Puddings, tagged balsamic, cheesecake, cream, dessert, Fiona Cairns, food, mint, pudding, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, strawberry, summer, the food i eat, thefoodieat on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not the biggest fan of cheesecake, so I won’t be waxing lyrical about this recipe. As cheesecakes go though, it’s a real good’un. The addition of mint and balsamic stop it from being one-dimensional creaminess, and turn it into something a bit more sophisticated and interesting. It’s a Fiona Cairns (of royal wedding cake-maker [...]
Ottolenghi tomatoes
Posted in Light Lunch, Savoury snacks, tagged anchovy, cream, Ottolenghi, parmesan, rosemary, tomoates on August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve got to hand it to Ottolenghi—they know how to do salads. When it comes to creative salad-making I have the culinary equivalent of writers’ block. I can’t ever get beyond green leaves with halved tomatoes. If I’m feeling particularly adventurous I’ll add some spring onions or some grilled courgettes. Salad making really isn’t my [...]
Redcurrant Soufflé
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged amaretto, cream, dessert, egg white, eggs, food, pudding, recipe, redcurrant, redcurrant souffle, souffle, sugar, the food i eat, thefoodieat on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s round this time of year that my mother is in the midst of a fruit-induced madness. It starts with raspberries, then strawberries, then redcurrants…then just as it’s beginning to wane, it’s the blackcurrants, blackberries, then apples… She gets up at odd hours in the morning to pick fruit, she can’t go on a summer [...]
Slumber party pudd: white chocolate and strawberry mousse
Posted in Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged biscuit, biscuit base, cream, food, Mary Berry, mousse, pudding, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, slumber party, strawberry, sweet, the food i eat, thefoodieat, treat, white chocolate, white chocolate mousse, white chocolate strawberry mousse on June 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Click here to vote for this recipe in the Real Food Challenge - so far it only has 1 rating…and that was me…and I clicked 1* by mistake. Darn. When it’s a Saturday night and some of your gal pals are round for a slumber party, a chocolate-based pudding is a must. I love this [...]
Using my last tub of beetroot: Beetroot Ice Cream
Posted in Puddings, tagged apple juice, beetroot, beetroot ice cream, cream, dessert, experimental, food, ice cream, pudding, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, sugar, the food i eat, thefoodieat on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Okay – so I know that I’ve gone a bit over the top with beetroot recently, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, there’s a 3 for 2 offer on tubs of beetroot at the Tesco’s down the road, so I had my ‘get one free’ pot to use up. A friend mentioned earlier [...]
Modern (and quick) Stroganoff
Posted in Maincourses, tagged beef, beef fillet, beef stroganoff, clean, cream, creme fraiche, easy, food, horseradish, modern, mushroom, quick, rach smith, rachel smith, rare, recipe, spinach, stroganoff, the food i eat, thefoodieat on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I had a bit of beef fillet left over from the beef wellington, so I gave my Mum a ring for some inspiration. She suggested that I did a stroganoff, which traditionally uses fillet steak. For me, one of the nicest parts of eating beef fillet though, is feeling and tasting the tender, pink centre [...]
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 [...]
Moules marinière
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, tagged cheap, cloves, cream, easy, food, garlic, moules mariniere, mussels, parsley, quick, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, shallots, the food i eat, thefoodieat, white wine on March 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Moules marinière is a real treat - most of all though, it’s not crazy expensive and it’s so easy to make. The trickiest part by far is finding the mussels to cook. I live in the East End – home of the eel and mash…but no mussels - yet when I visit my parents in [...]