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I have wanted to make a tart au citron (lemon tart) for quite some time, as I love the way it sounds. And it is something we often choose in France. Afternoon treats are always in order when on holiday. Lemon Tart And after making this dessert I love the way it tastes. It is packed … Continue reading Lemon Tart | Tart Au Citron
A while back the Daring Bakers' challenge was to make a loaf of bread that was shaped in a specific manner and I really wanted to make a savoury loaf. I try and bake a sourdough bread of some sort each weekend and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to make a twisted olive and … Continue reading Olive And Sun Dried Tomato Sourdough Bread
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
This Honey Nougat Apple Butter Cake is made using honey nougat and apple butter. Two premade ingredients I had to hand. I am currently studying Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the first assignment we had to do was keep track of what we ate in one day. The most surprising thing I learnt … Continue reading Honey Nougat Apple Butter Cake
I have recipes that I want to try saved all over the place. Recently I have taken to securing them to the side of the fridge, and out of site, with my Yuppiechef magnets. Sadly, I didn't think of this when I started getting the magnets and so my first, second and third lots of … Continue reading Creamy Chicken Pasta
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
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: 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
I wanted to call this naked nougat but can you imagine how the search engines would rank that? My experiment with sugar free honey nougat did not start off very well. I thought it would be easy to find rice paper, but I was wrong. I went to 3 different shops and could not find any. Had … Continue reading Honey Nougat
Four Cousins have recently launched two new products and invited me, together with 7 other bloggers to create creamgenius recipes. I decided to use the Four Cousins Marula Fruit Cream to make an ice cream. I wanted to add a twist to the ice cream, and introduce a salty element to the sweet liqueur, and so I … Continue reading Salted Caramel Ice Cream
I was sent a 200ml bottle of Amarula as my agreement to take part in this competition. My entry is this recipe for Amarula Chocolate Swirl Cake. This post is in line with my blogging policy. I am loving the combination of cherries and chocolates, and before you know it, I might venture out and bake … Continue reading Amarula Chocolate Swirl Cake
This pork steak wraps were made as part of my entry into the Zespri® 14 Day Daily Scoop of Amazing Challenge. I am budget beating at the moment by choosing meat that is reasonably priced. I am not compromising on the quality of meat I am buying. I am merely spending my money wisely by getting … Continue reading Pork Steak Wraps
It has been a very long time since Dave raced competitively. When he was racing we would leave for the race track in the dark and take breakfast and lunch with us. We would also take a flask with boiling water and coffee as I am not very good without coffee in the morning. Since … Continue reading Chocolate Pin Wheels
Spanakorizo With Butternut is a perfect vegetarian meal and can be served as a side dish, or as a salad. It can be made in advance. Skip ahead to the recipe for Spanakorizo With Butternut It has been my aim with every Freshly Blogged challenge to use all of the ingredients we have been given … Continue reading Spanakorizo With Butternut
This recipe for White Chocolate Pavlova was my submission to Freshly Blogged. As I was saying in my post for chicken liver terrine, this week's Freshly Blogged challenge had to be two dishes, both using cayenne pepper and cinnamon. We did not have to make a dessert but I chose to as given the ingredient … Continue reading White Chocolate Pavlova
These Soft Sugar Free Jelly Sweets are my submission to the I Made It Challenge. When Tami set the challenge this month for I Made It I was really worried. Even though I have a sweet tooth, I am not a sweetie person. I love chocolate and when it comes to sweets the only thing I … Continue reading Soft Sugar Free Jelly Sweets
As soon as I saw the challenge theme and ingredients for round 3 of Freshly Blogged I knew I was going to make ostrich bobotie using the ostrich sausage. To me, bobotie is the quintessential South African dish, together with melk tart, koeksisters and mealie pap! Skip ahead to the recipe for Ostrich Bobotie Given … Continue reading Ostrich Bobotie
This avocado cheese cake is a savoury recipe, perfect to serve as a side dish. My first memory of eating an avocado involves my grandmother. She would cut them in half, remove the pip and spoon a healthy dose of sugar into the hole and then pour in some malt vinegar. This memory is so … Continue reading Avocado Cheese Cake