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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 charming than the other. If you have puff pastry on hand, this is an indulgent dessert on fast track.
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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 quaint Parisian café, just right with a caffè latte.
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Ottolenghi’s Preserved Limes … well balanced & definitely addictiv
This is the second jar of Ottolenghi's Preserved Limes I have in progress, as the first is almost gone. I love the burst of tangy flavour these limes offer. The red chili enticingly takes the tangy flavours of the lime, and lends back just a slight hint of heat to the limes.
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{Baking} COFFEE & VANILLA BEAN MACARONS … Mac Summers Night Dream
“We mac-a-holics are like cats, we will ALWAYS land on our feet, especially when we have each other 4 support!” Julia @ Always Room For Dessert on twitter My childhood whizzed by in careless abandon. All her time went in telling me to read more books, read something, and not while my time away. I offered her my deaf ear! I was far too busy climbing trees, jumping off 7 feet walls, {landing on my feet}, catching tadpoles, noisily eating mangoes and tamarind from the trees in our yard, painting for hours together. That was when I was younger. As I grew and the years continued to whiz by, she…
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{Baking} Ottolenghi’s Individual Cherry & Plum Clafoutis … & a chance to win a Kitchen Aid Mixer
“If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, what Am I Doing in the Pits?” Erma Bombeck YIKES I did it again!! Yes, it was back to the Ottolenghi cookbook for the nth time. Well I had cherries, neatly pitted in a bowl, all thanks to a cherry pitter that Purple Foodie sent me from Mumbai. Well you see, last year I sat for hours pitting cherries by hand, one by end, and sobbed my woe begone tale on twitter. Jamie was horrified that I still lived in the stone age, and didn’t have a cherry pitter! “A what ???” I hollered right back! Never seen one here, and was entirely…
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Moorish Chicken in Cumin Butter! Delicious is the word…
Moorish Chicken in Cumin Butter from 'Moorish: Flavours from Mecca to Marrakech' by Greg and Lucy Malouf is every bit moorish as the title suggests. With recipes inspired by the flavours of North Africa, Spain, the Middle Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East region - regions united by a common thread that winds it's way back to Arabia. The title coins the essence in one word ... Moorish!!
