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{No Bake/Frozen} PEACH-GINGER & PLUM-VANILLA GRANITA … bidding adieu to stone fruit
Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper. Carol Adams I’m really really gutted and you might wonder why. I feel as if I lost the first prize and walked away with the consolation prize. At the heart of my misery is my rather late discovery of the granita. Have actually contemplated making it quite often, but never with such a sense of urgency until I saw this post on House of Annie. I was generally googling for something fun and refreshing to do with the last plums and peaches of the season, and this particular post had me gaping! Annie had made…
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{No Bake/Vegetarian Dessert} TROPICAL FRUIT VERRINES… Stoned this summer!
“Give me book, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors played by someone I do not know” John Keats We’ve been stoned nice and proper this summer! No, no, it’s not what you think. It’s just that we’ve had a wonderful bounty of stone fruit, and just when I think it’s the end of the season, the vibrant bazaar and the vendor tempt me back with more fruit to offer! A few days ago, my favourite fruit-vendor promised me another week of peaches. Just when I heaved a sigh of relief that I still had time, and there was really no need for…
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{Baking} CORNMEAL DROP BISCUIT PEACH COBBLER … for times when the mason doesn’t show up!
“There’s your karma ripe as peaches.” Jack Kerouac Even while the hammers rain blows down, and the kitchen is in shambles, I have a list of things to do. A cobbler was on my must bake list before the stone fruit season bid us adieu. It’s been bookmarked ever since I saw it on Leites Culinaria when I stopped by attempting to try and bake a recipe off the site for a photography competition. This cobbler was high on my list, until Monsieur Lebovitz’s Absolute Best Brownies knocked me off my perch! Not one to stay knocked off for so long, I was soon winging my way back to my…
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Chocolate & Vanilla Swiss Roll Ice Cream Cake … of ice creams & beautiful desserts
Chocolate & Vanilla Swiss Roll Ice Cream Cake ...and exciting baking challenge. It's a bit of work but the end result is totally worth it!
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{Baking} Stone Fruit Almond Crumble … baking in the midst of rubble, and LOVING it!!
“Mind like a sieve these days and the attention span of a flea!!” Jeanne Horak @ Cooksister I love the quote above. Words from Jeanne @ CookSister in emails being exchanged a couple of days ago, much of it nonsensical light banter. It coined the way I felt, and I was absolutely taken in by the rhythm of the words! My foodie world has been thrown into disarray and I often feel at odds. It’s a world of rubble, heat and dust, the odd shower thrown in, which adds to humidity. There is SO MUCH on the mind, and the additional want to ‘blog & tweet‘ doesn’t help… The…
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Mango Vanilla Bavarian Cream Cake … and a FOOT for MacTweets!
“Through flour, sugar, butter and eggs, you’ve created the best recipe ever – friendship!“ Janet @ LaDue & Crew Yes, still summer here, with the rains that came and went, leaving us in a puddle of hot and humid misery. Not the perfect weather for macs, but then again, it was the finding my feet time of the month. Needless to say, they proved elusive again. The theme Jamie and I picked at MacTweets was ‘SING, SING A SONG‘, asking you to cook up something special, something toe-tapping, sing-along good! Sing I did, and the numbers being belted out in my mind were wide ranging. Primary of course the theme…
