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Frozen Desserts| Strawberry Fro Yo ♥ Spring is here ♥ … summer too!
Refreshing strawberry fro yo which is great for the season. It's low on calories and great on flavour. Looks very pretty too.
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Lions,Tigers … oh my! Dutch Crunch Bread or Tijgerbrood
I have never seen a bread prettier than this one. Dutch Crunch Bread or Tijgerbrood, a delicious sandwich bread with a unique, crunchy topping. A visually delightful bread which is a common option…
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Baking| Quick Cinnamon Apple Buns with Cinnamon Icing {no yeast} … A Guest Post!
My take on cinnabons and cinnamon buns ... Quick no yeast apple, cinnamon and walnuts buns which bake in a jiffy {no yeast} and make for a nice rustic dessert {or quick snack}.…
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Baking| Blood Orange Macarons with Maple Orange Chocolate Pastry Creme … World Macaron Day
A perfect balance of flavours. Dried blood orange peel macarons with a bitter orange dark chocolate filling, laced with mild flavours of pure maple flakes. Macarons for Mactweets where we are celebrating World…
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Baking| Clementines Butterscotch Brownies … from LA Food Times {Culinary SOS}
Tender, rich and temptingly sweet, Clementine’s butterscotch brownies balance that brown-sugary goodness with a nice hint of salt to make this the perfect treat for almost any occasion.
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Baking| Roasted Pepper, Garlic Scapes & Cheddar Bread …. SRC!
It's the Secret Recipe Club time again and I bring you a quick delicious bread that you can adapt to filling of your choice. {eggless/vegetarian}
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Baking| Honey Roasted Fig & Almond Tart … good food indeed!
The tart was D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S.! Combined together, butter, brown sugar, almonds and vanilla beans deliver something special. The crust was crisp, and the tart came together beautifully. Honey roasted figs pleased the palette with…
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Baking| Double Chocolate Dessert Popovers … on the fast track with Daring Bakers
DELICIOUS, gooey and ever-so-chocolaty, these quick popovers are ready in the blink of an eye, well almost! Pop them in as you sit for dinner, and indulge in 'dessert popovers'!
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Savoury Tartlets … a flavour explosion of cherry tomatoes & caramelised onion
The flavours were outstanding. Sweet caramelised onions, tart sweet cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, sea salt, the kick of vinegar...and of course garlic! Crisp out of then oven, but pretty darned good cold too.
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Book Review | Southern Flavours …. Curd rice & Lentil patties {Medhu vadai}
It was the cover of the book the minute I unpacked the couriered parcel that took my breath away! Southern Flavours – The Best of South Indian Cuisine. Rich, vibrant, full of culture…
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Dessert| Berries & Buttermilk Pudding … SRC with the delightful Lisa!
Light pleasing buttermilk puddings served with a perky fruit sauce.
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Baking| Sweet & Savoury Scones: Pistachio & Cranberry; Cheddar & Garlic Greens… back to the basics with the DBs
Light as feather scones two way … sweet and savoury. Both good and great options for tea. {eggless/vegetarian}. The recipe is infinitely adaptable to individual tastes too.
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Baking | Giveaway| Book Review … Fred Harveys French Apple Pie with Nutmeg Sauce … & a Shabby Apron Giveaway!
A chic Shabby Apple apron giveaway and a recipe for comfort food redefined. Takes you back to the good old days … a simple, comforting apple pie served with an even simpler nutmeg…
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Baking| Lebkuchen & Garam Masala Macarons … and the failings of my sourdough experiment! Blame Scrooge!!
Lebkuchen and Garam Masala Vanilla Macarons sandwiched with a salted butter caramel buttercream. Holidays are here!
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Holiday Baking| Christmas Fruit Mince Pies …
Its dangerous to have a big bowl of fruit soaking on the counter. Hungry mouths on the prowl get attracted to it, so I hid it … but couldn’t get it it of…
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Dark Chocolate Caramel Oat & Almond Shortbread
This is the season of holiday baking, and only good can come out of the seasons inspiration. Oats + Almonds + Flour + Butter + Brown Sugar = Crisp delicious shortbread. This shortbread…
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Holiday Baking| Vanilla Bean Chocolate Chip Wookies {Waffle + Cookies = Wookies!!}…Pennsylvania Dutch Waffle Cookies
Crisp, unique deliciously unforgettable Pennsylvania Dutch waffle cookies made in minutes in a waffle maker. Versatile too. if you have that waffle maker waiting in the wings, reach out for it, mix the…
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Baking| Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Mini Cloud Gateaus … For #NellysBigDay
These Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Mini Cloud Gateaus were a big hit! Can't go wrong with dark chocolate and strawberries, a pairing made in heaven. These were decadent and festive, almost a gateau…
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Holiday Baking| Savoury Cheese & Garlic Olive Oil Pull-Apart Bread {vegetarian}
A full of flavour, light savoury pull apart bread. Olive oil, red & green preserved chili peppers, garlic and sharp cheddar make this a wonderful light choice for the festive season. {Eggless/vegetarian}
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Bittersweet Chocolate Orange Strawberry Tart … rich & delicious
Bittersweet chocolate paired with sweet scents of orange zest, topped with strawberries in a Digestive biscuit crust – eggless too. I think this might well be a dessert than can please one and…
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Baking| Perfect Pumpkin Pie … and simple too {#getsmart}
This is a pie right for fall. The filling … silky, smooth and spicy! The crust just right, not too crisp, yet offers a handsome bite, gently teasing the palette with beautiful pistachio…
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Baking| Garlic & Herb Whole Wheat Crackers with Roasted Red Bell Pepper Dip … SRC
Crisp whole wheat crackers and finger licking good creamy roasted red bell pepper dip … healthy and addictive!
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Povitica – Croatian Sweet Walnut Chocolate Bread
Povitica is traditional Eastern European dessert bread served during the holiday season.This walnut version, a Croatian Walnut Bread, is rolled yeast bread made of sweet dough slathered generously with a delicious walnut/chocolate/vanilla filling.…
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Frozen| Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream {Eggless} … quite the ‘Perfect Scoop’
A very unusual and addictive Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream that uses just 4 simple ingredients. It's silky, velvety, deep and sensuous ... an absolute winner from The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz.
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Frozen| Plum Frozen Yogurt … low fat treat for Pinktober
A refreshing and beautifully coloured low fat frozen treat. The addition of vanilla sugar and kirsch give it that special flavour. This is a nice way to preserve excess fruit of summer for…
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Baking| Fresh, Fluffy, French … Croissants with the Daring Bakers
A recipe adapted from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two. Julia Child and Simone Beck, make this in cool/cold weather for croissants that are perfect, flaky, buttery, and delicious!
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Baking| Apple Strawberry Basil Hand Pies from Beantown Baker {SRC}
Delicious and comforting, hand pies with an apple, strawberry and basil filling. Great grub on the go, and nice for an informal dessert too. Serve with a drizzle of unsweetened cream.
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Baking| Chocolate Almond Olive Oil & Whole Wheat Biscotti
An already healthy Italian cookie made even healthier with the use of some whole wheat flour & reduced sugar. Adapted minimally from David Lebovitz, this is an addictive biscotti for the cookie jar.
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Baking| Vanilla Almond Frangipane Plum Tart … the last of the plums {well almost}
It was one of those obsessive days, a ‘have to bake with plums’ sort of a day! The plums found a happily ever after ending in this pretty fruit bake – a Vanilla…
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Baking| Apricot & Plum Cobbler … the Secret Recipe Club & a guest post
“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw It’s July with the Secret Recipe Club and the inspiration behind…
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Baking| Cherry Phyllo Pie … sweet cherry pie, with home made phyllo.
I am still amazed at why I didn't get to making phyllo at home earlier. This is a summer pastry for a country like ours. Light, crisp, versatile, delightful ... ah-mazing stuff! The…
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Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache
Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache ... Black sesame seeds instead of almond meal went into these to experiment macarons for a friend. Sandwiched with a delicious fresh cherry dark chocolate ganache…
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Baking| Chocolate Chip & Tart Cherry Cookies … Enjoying SRC in HKG!
Whats not to love about cookies which contrast the softness of tart cherries with dark chocolate. A one bowl chocolate chip cookie recipe we enjoyed while vacationing.... and a few pics of Hong…
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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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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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No Bake Dessert| Creme au chocolat shots … fudgy, indulgent, deep chocolate creme
This is my fast track version of Crème au chocolat which translates simply into my idea of an indulgent chocolate cream! The basic recipe is quite versatile, and can be easily doubled too.…
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Frozen Dessert| Strawberry Fresh Mint & Lime Sorbet … summer’s here & macarons too!
What better way to welcome the dreaded HOT days of summer. This is a natural and sensational sorbet to beat the heat. It is fresh and exciting, and a wonderful way to use…
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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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Cooking| Sriracha Style Sweet-Red Chili Dipping Sauce … some like it hot!
You can live with it, but you can't live without it. It's the epitome of uniting flavours and palettes, and has the uncanny characteristic of giving every cuisine a veritable kick! Red Hot…
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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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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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Cooking| Katchi Biryani … perhaps Hyderabads most renowned biryani
Maybe I’m plain lucky, or maybe I’ve ‘arrived’ on the biryani scene. Whichever way, this was a meal in itself, full of flavour, each grain of rice separate {test of a good biryani},…
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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 | 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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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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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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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…
