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These Chickpea Crêpes are vegan, and suitable for all sorts of meals. Chickpea Crêpes This month we were challenged to make pathiri, which are rice flour pancakes traditionally eaten during Ramadan. I am sure I must have tasted them when I was in Dubai over Ramadan, but I cannot remember that far back ;). I … Continue reading Chickpea Crêpes
Trying to create sucrose free candy / sweets is not an easy feat as fructose works in a completely different way to sucrose. Fructose is a monosaccharide which means it is made up of a single unit. Sucrose is a disaccharide made up of glucose and fructose. I first attempted to make nougat by using … Continue reading Sugar Free Nougat
The best part of these chocolate buns was when the chocolate oozed out! 20 years ago I had a very open 'crush' on one of the racing drivers. He was cute and shy and flirted with me whenever he could. Dave used to call him my hottie and for years that is how we have … Continue reading Chocolate Buns
Blog-checking lines: The February Daring Cooks' Challenge was hosted by Audax of Audax Artifex. The challenge brought us to Greece with a delicious, flaky spanakopita - a spinach pie in a phyllo pastry shell. I made spanakopita. I don't cook a lot of Greek food and I don't have any recipe books that are dedicated … Continue reading Spanakopita
Blog-checking lines: The January 2014 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Francijn of "Koken in de Brouwerij". She challenged us all to bake layered cakes in the tradition of Baumkuchen (tree cake) and Schichttorte (layered cake). The first time I saw a baumkuchen was at the Root 44 Market which is held at Audacia Wine Estate … Continue reading Baumkuchen
When Dave and I were in Sicily in 2013 I made a point of looking out for arancini di carne, as these are a traditional food to the region. However, I did not see any which left me wanting to try and make some arancini di carne when we got home. I was quite pleased … Continue reading Arancini Di Carne
Blog-checking lines: The December Daring Bakers' Challenge had us all cheering - the lovely and talented Bourbonnatrix of Bourbonnatrix Bakes was our hostess and challenged us to make fun, delicious and creative whoopie pies! Delicious little cake-like cookies sandwiching luscious filling in any flavors we chose... And I made Chocolate Whoopie Pies With A Salted … Continue reading Chocolate Whoopie Pies
Blog-checking lines: November’s Daring Cooks’ Challenge had us on a roll! Olga from Effort Ness Lessly challenged us to make stuffed cabbage rolls using her Ukrainian heritage to inspire us. Filled with meat, fish or vegetables, flexibility and creativity were the name of the game to get us rolling! I made traditional frikkadels. There is … Continue reading Traditional Frikkadels
Blog-checking lines: Sandie of the lovely blog, Crumbs of Love, was our November hostess. Sandie challenged us to make a traditional Italian dessert, along with its American version – Sfogliatelle (or better known in the US – lobster tails!) The flakey, 1000 layers of super thin dough, shaped into a horn and filled with a scrumptious filling. … Continue reading Chocolate And Orange Sfogliatelle
The daring cooks challenge this month was to make a bread soup. I don't have a Spanish recipe book in my house other than one for tapas and so I turned to the internet for some help. It was here that I found this recipe from Dan Lepard. As my blog friend Claire has had … Continue reading Garlic Soup
Blog-checking lines: Hannah of Rise and Shine was our October 2013 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she challenged us to bake our own double crusted savory pot pies. Using any from-scratch crust and filling we choose, we were allowed to get completely creative with our recipe, showing off the savory flavors and fillings from our own home … Continue reading Lobster Pot Pie For Daring Bakers’
Blog-checking lines: Inma of la Galletika was our Sept. 2013 Daring Bakers’ hostess and WOW did she bring us something decadent and delicious! Pastel de Tres Leches or Three Milk Cake, creamy yet airy, super moist but not soggy.. just plain delish! I have often heard the term tres leches when watching American cooking shows but I had never given … Continue reading Pastel De Tres Leches | Three Milk Cake
For challenge 8 of Freshly Blogged we were tasked with creating a recipe using art or an artist as our inspiration. Unlike the contestants I did not look to a world famous artist for my inspiration, instead I turned to my late gran who inspires me every day. She was a commercial artist and taught … Continue reading Chicken And Chorizo Gnocchi