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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 slathered it with a deep decadent chocolate ganache using a 65% dark chocolate - divine!
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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, and these knives are addictive!
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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 summers bounty. My mint patch is overflowing and I loved that I could add fresh mint to the strawberries.
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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 a handful of chopped dry fruit, almonds, pistachios, walnuts etc, then throw in some tart cherries, craisins, raisins if you like, add some fresh herbs like thyme for a nice Spring feel … and bake until the juices begin to enticingly ooze out. ENJOY!!
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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 asked for better, more comforting bread! It's simple, is ready to bake in a couple of hours, and the olive oil lavished on top gives it a beautiful crust.
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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 Chili Peppers live up to their name in this zingy dipping sauce! Though its an Asian sauce, I find it works beautifully with most cuisines; after all what's not to love about chili-garlic-sweet? This is Asian fusion at it's best!!
