Reviews of books, restaurants and kitchen gadgets that I can’t live without… or with.
Decent food at slightly less decent prices; nothing special but good for an easy meal after dark, especially with a cocktail.
Links to stuff I loved for the w/e March 19, 2010
Cantal Week by week, I’m working my way through the local gourmet supermarket‘s extraordinary cheese counter. There are incredibly fresh, grassy goat cheeses, Italian staples like fresh ricotta and ultra-decadent ...
Tried and tested 7: Dan Lepard's recipe for black olive gougeres; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's recipe for parsnip, celeriac and blue cheese bake
Tried and tested: Nigella's chocolate Christmas cookies, a triumph of beetroot with beetroot brownies and beetroot ice-cream and kasutera cake, a Japanese teatime snack with Portuguese influences.
Recipe roundup from around the internet. Tried and tested 5: pumpkin ice-cream from David Lebovitz, walnut chocolate chip cookies from Nigel Slater
I think this is the best book to get started with bread baking. Inspires confidence and fun.
Just shoot me now, it doesn't get better than this.
One hit, four misses. I still have yet to reliably master the art of producing homemade ice-cream that isn’t either overly rich or a frozen mass requiring drill and blast ...
Chocolate frozen yoghurt This recipe from Chocolate & Zucchini was absolutely perfect – I made it with 0% fat greek yoghurt, icing sugar, a tablespoon of rum and Lindt 70% ...
