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Baking| Nutella & Fresh Cherries Chocolate Tart … May with Megan @ The Secret Recipe Club
A chocolate tart with a deeply luscious Nutella and chocolate filling, a vegetarian filling, which can be made ahead and is ADDICTIVE! This is my entry for The Secret Recipe Club this May.
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Cherry & Peach Oat Crumb Bars … stoned to comfort!
If you want to be stoned to comfort this summer, you must try these delicious crumb bars! They are flexible, use stone fruit, have oats and are delicious! Great snack {and also an…
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Papdi Chaat & Bhel Puri … Indian Street Food & Guest Posting!
Indian Street Food at it's tantalizing best - traditional, home made and addictive! Baked whole wheat crackers that make a crisp and healthy base for Indian street food chaat - papdi chaat and…
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Espresso Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … Espress-o-love for Mother’s Day!!
These muffins are great for a coffee loving Mum! Nothing like a deep, delicious espresso cupcake to make the day complete. Dark chocolate pairs beautifully with coffee, and IMHO, a creme chantilly topping…
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Whipped Strawberry Curd Cream Tartlets with Walnut Shortbread Crust
A delightful light summer berry tart with a walnut shortbread crust, and a whipped strawberry curd cream to fill the crust! A new twist to lemon curd, and we loved it!!
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Delicious Old Fashioned Eggless Chocolate Cake with Balsamic Strawberry & Cream Filling
We loved this cake! It's special because it is a layered cake, EGGLESS, no butter and still deeply decadent and 'chocolaty' moist! I filled it with a balsamic strawberry and cream filling, and…
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Baking| ERGO Knives {a review} & the best pizza dough ever {Peter Reinhart}
One of my happiest days paired with great quality knives I got to review from Ergo Chef Knives and Peter Reinharts pizza dough which made the best pizza ever! This dough doesn't disappoint,…
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Delicious Strawberry Apple Crumble … a very easy heart friendly dessert!
One of my favourite fruit bakes ... A heart friendly dessert with complex carbs, delicious fruit and low calories. Use fruit of the season, stone and pip fruit work great here, throw in…
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Baking | Roasted Garlic Foccacia … & a salute to the ‘Fukushima 50’!
A handsome splash of extra virgin olive oil, a couple of heads of roasted garlic in the dough, a sprinkling of fresh oregano, sea salt & more garlic on top. I couldn't have…
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Baking| Strawberry & Lemon Curd Shortbread
Oh the power of food, always A M A Z I N G!! I enjoyed making these. Loved the different textures, the colours, the burst of flavours from the rather buttery unsweetened shortbread…
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Baking| New York Style Bagels – One Day Bagels! Spice Up Your Life!
A same day recipe that makes you want to make thees babies day after day! Man these bagels were good. One bite into these beauties and we were transported to bagel heaven. Bow…
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Mousse-a-cotta with Macs in the Air!
A deliicous experiment later, mousse-a-cotta or panna-mousse is what found its way back into these goblets. It found its way into the dwarfs tummies at express speed too! They loved the second fast…
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Baking| Strawberry & Whipped Lemon Curd Napoleans … ♥Happy V Day♥
Time for mille fueille, the classic French dessert which holds endless charm. I fell for the trap of this love filled or rather love-fueled day. Blogs are resplendent with sweetheart desserts, one more…
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Baking| Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts … ♥World Nutella Day♥
Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts ... ♥World Nutella Day♥. Nutella and strawberries offer quintessential seductive pairing; serve them in crisp puff pastry hearts, and I think you'd hit bulls eye! Crisp buttery pastry,…
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Biscuit Joconde Imprime/Entremet … Strawberry & Chocolate; Espresso & Chocolate
A Biscuit Joconde Imprime to wrap around an Entremets dessert. A Daring Bakers challenge done in 2 hues - Strawberry Bavarian Mousse with Chocolate Cream, and Espresso Panna Cotta with Chocolate Cream. Fabulous…
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Delicious Whole Wheat & Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies … goodness of wholegrain!
Whole Wheat & Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies for a healthier 2011! I have always included some whole wheat by default, but was taken aback to see that using whole grains alone, whole wheat…
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Baking | Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau … Sweet beginning to our New Year!
The Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau is wonderful and moist, with a beautiful balance of flavours. Orange, almond and chocolate hang in delicate harmony, each complimenting the other, no overpowering flavours here. Even the…
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Chocolate Creme Brulee … The Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible
Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible is here. This one book is a chocolate lovers dream, a book with recipes you can recreate, and easily so. The instructions are clear and simple. It's not…
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Baking| STOLLEN PUDDING … a Daring Bakers Stollen in Bread Pudding
I stole the Stollen we made for Christmas with the Daring Bakers and baked it into a STOLLEN/BREAD PUDDING! Mmmm...just the perfect dessert for a cold wintry day, good to the last crust.…
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Garam Masala Fruit Cake … a twist to the traditional, my recipe from scratch!
A Christmas Fruit Cake with a twist. Have you ever added garam masala to your fruit cake? You really should try it. It doesn't add curry flavours to your cake, I promise. It…
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Lebkuchen Genoise Verrines with Apple Craisin Compote
I love verrines for their appealing looks. Play around with layers if you like. The space within is your canvas. Lebkuchen flavoured cream whipped to soft peaks mingles gently with the vanilla genoise…
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In love with Apple Cinnamon Walnut Rough Puff Pastry Parcels … perfect for Fall
A made from scratch, rough puff pastry from Ottolenghi, meets a delightful apple filling from Dorie Greenspan in these delicious Apple Cinnamon Walnut parcels. They were like something you would find in a…
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NUTS about Alton Brown’s DOUGHNUTS …Yeastly tales with the Daring Bakers
Yeast doughnuts from Alton Brown's recipe for Daring Bakers...light, fluffy and addictive!
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Baking | RUSTIC GARLIC LOAVES for World Bread Day – Dough from Mark Bittman
“Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread—there may be.” David Grayson When you have friends who charm you into posting for World Bread…
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PUMPKIN POTS de CREME – LiveSTRONG With A Taste Of Yellow
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they…
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Chocolate Almond Biscotti
“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE!” Linda Grayson, “The Pickwick Papers” Sometimes life springs wonderful surprises, and I sit back reminiscing about how far I’ve come…
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Stone Fruit Chocolate Clafoutis … with flaxseed!
Stone Fruit Chocolate Clafoutis ... with flaxseed! The fruit got stewed in there, and delicious syrup rose up the sides once the custard was baked making way for delicious desserts!
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Baking| Fresh Fig & Frangipane Buckwheat Tartlets
“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.” Ferdinand Point Fruit…
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Ottolenghi’s Carrot Walnut Cake … with mascarpone frosting
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” Jim Davis That Ottolenghi cookbook has me completely smitten! I think it follows me around, planting itself on…
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Strawberry Galette with Vanilla Scented Frangipane
Strawberry Galette with Vanilla Scented Frangipane because it's pure joy to work with fruit, and a rustic, free form pastry makes it even better. The aromas of the tart baking were instantly mood…
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Mushroom Soup, Fougasse, Char-grilled Broccoli Salad
Mushroom Soup, Fougasse, Char-grilled Broccoli Salad, it's time for a savoury break, a short & crisp recipe as most of my family has been bitten by the flu bug. We have a house…
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Delicious Orange & Oat Scones … gorgeous little crumbs
Delicious Orange & Oat Scones, there's something about scones. Quintessential, charming & endlessly enjoyable. A classic holiday platter 'cookie' of sorts...
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Simple Pumpkin Pie & Crème Patisserie, Strawberry & Chocolate Pie… it’s raining pies!
Simple Pumpkin Pie & Crème Patisserie, Strawberry & Chocolate Pie ... when you can't have just one!
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Baking| APPLE & WALNUT BROWN BUTTER TARTLETS
“Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!” Author Unknown Yay, it’s November! Really surprised how silently it snuck up on me, and am still wondering what happened to poor old October.…
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Baking| Chocolate Cherry Muffins … healthy muffins we l♥ve!
“Life is just a bowl of cherries.” Proverb There’s so much to do as always, & so little time. With the kids still at home on vacation, the day gallops by so fast.…
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Indian Style Chicken Wings the Monica Bhide way!
Having kept away from wings as they are usually served deep fried, this is a refreshing new take! Indian Style Chicken Wings is a keeper of a recipe, so well worth stocking up…
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Artisan Bread or No-Knead Bread … simplest bread ever!
Artisan Bread or No-knead bread. The bread was so good, tasting even better the next day. I love a handsome loaf of bread, & this was just that!!
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Lavash Crackers with a Roasted Red Bell Pepper Dip – Guilt free snacking
“Good taste is as tiring as good company.” Francis Picabia There’s something about these crackers. Never has guilt free snacking been this indulgent, this happy! Munch till you drop? These Lavash Crackers with…
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2 Toned Biscotti – Coffee & Chocolate
“Yield to temptation…it may not pass your way again” Lazarus Long On the 5th of September every year, schools across India celebrate this day as Teachers Day. Every attempt is made to make…
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The original butter chicken … make yours at home
This recipe appeared in the newspaper in July 2008, in an article from the man who gave Delhi the most memorable Butter Chicken ever...& has been doing so for years - Monish Gujral…
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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…
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Tangy Fresh Lime Cake … Citrus makes me happy!
Tangy Fresh Lime Cake ... Citrus makes me happy! One of my favourite flavours, I find myself using 'citrus' , mostly lime, every single day, in one way or another. No day is…
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Baking | SPICY CINNAMON SHORTBREAD…Think Spice Cinnamon!
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet van Horne SPICY CINNAMON SHORTBREAD This is a sweet & spicy shortbread, not the traditional sort, because…
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Devil’s Food Mini Muffins
This is a nice and easy recipe I browsed off the net ages ago. It’s a staple item on our kids birthday party menu, and I attempt to colour code it with the…
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‘SMARTIE’ Cookies….Having fun with colours!!
The kids love having these as part of their snack boxes or birthday parties. I call ’em ‘Smartie Cookies’. They are sugar cookies, spruced up with either ‘Smarties‘ or ‘M n M’s’, silver…
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POUND AWAY, POUND AWAY… It’s the Mocha Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
My vote for an everyday/on-the-go cake goes to the Pound Cake!! Its the one cake that can eaten without frosting, or then spruced up with a ganache or drizzled with chocolate...whatever!! Sturdy enough…
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Almond-Orange Chocolate Cake
I made this cake with an almond sponge cake as the base. Sandwiched it with whipped cream, topped it off with rich ganache. I attempted some marbling on top, and then spruced it…
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Almond Butter Cookies
These are some almond butter cookies I made as tasters at a fund-raiser where I put up a stall. They made great samplers, and quite a few enquiries came my way asking if…
