The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Dessert on Sep 23rd, 2008
Sometimes, an odd scrap of leftovers leads me in an unusual direction. Today was one of those days. It all began with 6 sheets of leftover spring roll wrapper. I’ll tell you in advance, the gamble paid off. Dessert was delicious.
Strawberry, chocolate and camembert dessert rolls.
makes 4, I only made three because that’s how many [...]
Posted in Carnivorous, Dessert, Soup, thermomix on Apr 7th, 2008
Today, it’s the Bread Winner and my anniversary. Our wedding anniversary that is. We celebrate both our wedding anniversary and our original anniversary. Because we can and because it seems kind of strange to discount the years we were shacked up before we decided to go all traditional.
Anyway, organising a baby sitter and a night [...]
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Party Food on Feb 27th, 2008
Because he loves cheesecake and I love him.
Mixed Chocolate Cheesecake
175g packet shortbread biscuits, crushed
75g butter, melted
500g cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup light muscovado
2 teaspoon gelatine, dissolved in 14 cup boiling water, cooled
100g fairtrade orange flavoured chocolate
100g fairtrade white chocolate with scorched almonds
1 cup pure cream
8 seconds at speed 5 will crush the biscuits
2 minutes of 100 [...]
Posted in Christmas, Dessert, Drinks, Salads & Vegetables on Dec 25th, 2007
We are having Christmas lunch at my brother and his wife’s house this year. We all pitch in and bring food so no one has to work too hard. I was quick to bags dessert because a wonderful recipe sprang to mind courtesy of the lovely Jan. I also volunteered a couple of salads [...]
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