The I MADE IT challenge for this month was to make monkey bread. Some days I feel like this monkey bread must feel when people start eating it – all torn up in different directions. I set last week Sunday aside … Continue reading
Cherry season is short lived in South Africa and as soon as I see cherries in the fridge at our local supermarket I buy them. Dave does not like cherries at all, so I can enjoy punnet after punnet without … Continue reading
I am not sure what I was thinking of when I decided to make an ice cream using pickled ginger. I had made my own pickled ginger to use up some fresh ginger before it went to waste and as … Continue reading
I set the challenge for this month’s I MADE IT based on two criteria. One, I had never made a sabayon before and really wanted to make it, and two, I had a lovely egg topper that needed showcasing. A … Continue reading
I love the Hebrew word for jam doughnuts. Sufganiyot somehow sounds better in my mind than the English word “doughnut”. Sufganiyot describes exactly what the sweet treat is when you say it out aloud, or at least it does to … Continue reading
Summer has been an absolutely fun time of experimenting with ice cream flavours. There are so many in my freezer that I could open my own gelateria. I have taken to labelling them so that we know which flavour is … Continue reading
There is a company here in South Africa, called The Fudge Factory, and you can watch them churn out huge portions of various flavoured fudges. For our first Christmas together, and before I knew I was sucrose intolerant, Dave gave … Continue reading
In my mind there are always two things I associate with Italy and that is espresso and gelato. Not a day goes by while we are in Italy without Dave and I stopping off a few times for a quick … Continue reading
At the end of January, two things happened which were serendipitous. The first was that when I went to get my daily banana out of the fruit bowl, I noticed that all of them were over ripe. Our summer days … Continue reading
Nope, I am not talking about money! What I am talking about is the lovely French cake that makes use of egg whites. I have been on an ice cream making mission. In fact, I could open an ice cream … Continue reading