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COFFEE and ROASTED ALMOND BISCOTTI…a handsome combination!
“I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food” Erma Bombeck Coffee & Roasted Almonds…a handsome combination I have my biscotti moments…at times, I will suddenly alight & set off to make a biscotti with a ‘flavour of the moment‘ off the top of my head. This particular moments’ flavour turned out to be coffee & roasted almonds. A delicious, crisp biscotti! I made these some time ago, & am tempted to set off & bake some now…only problem being that I’ve cut a nerve in the palm of my right hand & am incapacitated as far as baking/cooking goes. Which leaves me with very little to do;…
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COFFEE & ROASTED ALMOND BISCOTTI…a handsome combination!
“I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food” Erma Bombeck Coffee & Roasted Almonds…a handsome combination I have my biscotti moments…at times, I will suddenly alight & set off to make a biscotti with a ‘flavour of the moment‘ off the top of my head. This particular moments’ flavour turned out to be coffee & roasted almonds. A delicious, crisp biscotti! I made these some time ago, & am tempted to set off & bake some now…only problem being that I’ve cut a nerve in the palm of my right hand & am incapacitated as far as baking/cooking goes. Which leaves me with very little to do;…
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CHOCOLATE ALWAYS MAKES THINGS BETTER…’BETTER CAKE THAN CREAM BROWNIES’
“Any food not fit to wear is not fit to eat.”Jim Rosenthal ‘Better Cake than Cream Brownies’…Chocolate Overdose Diva @ Sugar Bar is hosting this intriguing event “Beauty & the Feast”. The challenge is to pick a cosmetic/beauty/body-hand-skincare,etc. product that has either a name that is food-related or has food-related ingredients. Use the combination of flavours of the product as best as you can& give it any funky name you like. I picked Cocoa Butter Body Butter…a Body Shop product which is full of ‘brownies in another form’!! Picture courtesy Body Shop, UK“Doubly rich for extra dry skin with a yummy chocolate-and-vanilla scent. An excellent moisturizer that melts at body…
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ONE PERFECT INGREDIENT…RINGING THE BELL FOR PEPPERS!
“In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.” Curnonsky My ‘One Perfect Ingredient’ would be ‘BELL PEPPERS’. When Maninas: Food Matters left me a message the other day, I did a little jig. Said it was OK to post for the ‘One Perfect Ingredient Competition’ for the book from Marcus Wareing ‘One Perfect Ingredient’…even if we weren’t resident in the UK or Europe.Quoting from Maninas…’Marcus Wareing is one of the best British chefs today: he is a two Michelan-starred chef, he worked with the (in)famous Gordon Ramsay, and he won the Great British Menu competition with his custard tart with Garibaldi biscuits. The winning dessert…
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MAKE MINE COFFEE with chocolate…ALLURING PANNA COTTA ESPRESSO!
“Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, friendship endures.” (Meaning the man who gives good dinners has plenty of friends). Latin Proverb Living my coffee dreams…with some chocolate too! My dream run in the kitchen continues…I’m lucky to have moulded family tastes to quite an extent that coffee is lapped up in any dessert avatar. As I mentioned the last time I made panna cotta, the delectable strawberry coulis delight, it wouldn’t be long before I made it again. Sure enough, the next time I had to make dessert, it was right back to my favourite, new Italian discovery! This time I hit the coffee trail with some chocolate…
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Back to baking again…ORANGE SHORTBREAD COOKIES
“And every day when I’ve been good, I get an orange after food.” Robert Louis Stevenson ORANGE SHORTBREAD COOKIES Orange Shortbread Christmas cookies from the ‘Great Big Cookie Book’…crispy, buttery & just right on sweetness. Its the orange zest that adds a burst of fresh flavour to this shortbread. Its amazing how much of a difference natural flavours can make to food! The orange before it lost its zest! The recipe is quite similar to the Lime Shortbread Cookies one I posted a few days ago; except there are no twists to the original recipe this time, but for the shapes. If you haven’t got cookie cutters, worry not! Just…
