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Tried and tested

Tried and tested 7: black olive gougeres; parsnip, celeriac and blue cheese bake

Two recipes from the Guardian’s resident recipe writers this week, both more apt for winter climates but (did I mention this?) it’s been cold in Miami and the only heating in this town is the kind that comes from rib-sticking calorie-loaded food within. Let me tell you, I’m still thawing out my feet from stand-up [...]

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Tried and tested 6: Nigella’s chocolate cookies, beetroot ice-cream, beetroot brownies and kasutera cake

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I’ve always thought that brownies are a grown-up excuse to eat raw cake mixture – a cursory nod to the oven gives them baked-goods legitimacy, just as a whiff of the martini bottle is the grown-up excuse to down a large bucket of gin. This version with beetroot is, of course, just another such excuse [...]

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Tried and tested 5: pumpkin ice-cream, walnut chocolate chip cookies

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Pumpkin ice-cream I have an unhealthy obsession (very literally I’m sure) with the various seasonal flavours at Starbucks, my current favourite order being a tall iced non-fat pumpkin spice latte. It is sickly, artificial, contains no nutritional value whatsoever… and I love it. This recipe from David Lebovitz, however, is all the good bits chucked [...]

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Recipes from around the internets, tried and tested 4

Ultimate Creamed Spinach
I’d seen Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall make this on River Cottage. It is utterly divine – a bechamel infused with grated carrot and onion, bay leaves and nutmeg. unfortunately I had to make it with frozen rather than fresh spinach but it was still gorgeous. I reduced the butter down to 30g from 50g and [...]

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Recipes from around the internets, tried and tested 3

I’m in mid preparations for a trip off the rock. Later today we’re going to Canada for two weeks, a whistlestop tour of Whistler (geddit) and more in British Columbia. Hence I’ve been doing an awful lot of leftovers which aren’t too interesting or bloggable. But here are the best of the rest:

Gooey chocolate stack
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Recipes from around the internets, tried and tested 2

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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 operations to eat. Damn good souffle though.

Lime souffle
Really delicious, fluffy and light. For two people I used 2 yolks, 4 whites and 60g caster [...]

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Recipes from the internets, tried and tested 1

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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% dark chocolate. The entire bowl was demolished in one sitting. mk364ygxp8
Buttermilk squash soup
I got the idea to use buttermilk in a soup from 101 Cookbooks – I [...]

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