Fine dining dessert: Deconstructed chocolate bar
This dish comprises many elements here are their recipes: Marquise: Base: 100g of biscuit crumbled up, 30g butter and 40g chocolate...
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Building a fine dining dessert: The deconstructed chocolate bar
This sub series of blogs will describe how to construct the pictured chocolate and peanut dessert inspired by a famous chocolate bar. ...
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Sushi
Making sushi, if you get the rice right then regardless of the filling you'll get a good taste. The trick one cup to one cup rice to...
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Dessert time - it has strawberries so it's healthy
This dessert combines several straightforward elements with one that requires a bit more patience and practice but that can easily be...
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Vegan Banana Bread
Take 3 over ripe bananas, mash them and mix in a teaspoon of vanilla extract, 125ml of oil (we used half pecan oil and veg oil). Whilst...
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Foraging: at the beach
As well as picking wild flowers to garnish sweets or salads I'm not adverse to scouring the coast for a free supper (permission sought of...
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Pasta from creation to consumption
This is a little step-by-step hints and tip guide to producing an excellent tortelloni - delicious. Prepare the pasta dough. A good rule...
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Building a dish: Bara Brith dessert
Earlier today Mum and I baked some Bara Brith so for dessert tonight we're using slices as a base for a simple dessert. You'll need: 1...
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History of food: Kardomah cafe menu circa 1916
The Kardomah cafe is a Swansea institution and a recent Dylan Thomas exhibition displayed the cafes' menu from 1916. The selection of...
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In the kitchen with Mum - Day 2 Bara Brith 'Speckled Bread'
Following on from Day 1 where we soaked 450g of dried fruit in tea, today we finished the Bara Brith 'Speckled Bread'. Collect together...