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What the heck am I doing drinking in B.C.?
The availability of inexpensive wines from around the world is no new thing to us consumers in the UK. In fact never has one enjoyed...
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Summerberry Cheesecake
Last year was a great year for raspberries (red and yellow) and blackcurrants in our garden. So much so that many were frozen as we...
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Chili Chicken piperade and polenta wheels
This is a bit of a left over dish. The chili chicken was leftover from a pasta dish, the polenta was baked to make polenta chips to go...
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Berry harvest
We're lucky enough to have raspberry canes (yellow and red) along with white and blackcurrant bushes in our garden. Today's been one of...
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brioche
500 g t55 flour 300 g butter 15 g yeast 6 eggs 15g salt 20g sugar mix flour, yeast , salt and sugar add whisked eggs add softened...
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bread...
brown white 450 wholemeal flour ...
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Chocolate columns
Here are my chocolate columns made simply by melting and tempering chocolate spread out on to sheets of catering plastic cut into a strip...
Parfait
Parfait orginally was a dessert in France made with cream eggs and sugar. it comes from the french word meaning perfect, referring to the...
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Trip to Italy, France and Spain
We recently went on our honeymoon and boy, did we ever come back with some goodies. You can see some above, but we have soo much more....
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Crabapple jelly
We made crabapple jelly tonight out of our crabapples picked from the tree in the backyard. They are such a rich red colour. Inedibly...