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This dinner will get you laid – Cinnamon Buns
The cinnamon buns really got me.
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Tagged amish, baking, cinnamon bun, dessert, pastry, pecan, treat
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The Monday Treat: Blackberry and Apple Crumble for a snow day
Winter is upon us. Not Christmas. Not New Year. But Winter, grinding away the days. There was more snow this week, and more predicted for next week. It’s cold outside, baby, and all I want to do is curl up … Continue reading
The Monday Treat – Warm panettone bread pudding
I was heading to my choir rehearsal when I heard a New Yorker having a really good day. A group of tourists in brightly colored ski jackets (why?) approached him as we waited at the lights. “Excuse me,” asked one, … Continue reading
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Tagged bread pudding, Carnegie Hall, Christmas, cream, custard, dessert, eggs, nutmeg, panettone, vegetarian
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The Monday Treat – Carrot Cake
My justification, if any were needed, is that I’m using up the vegetable box, which, by reason of us getting the family-sized one delivered by mistake, seems to be taking up half of the kitchen. This cake used up a … Continue reading
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Apple Crumble
Today is the 11th anniversary of my husband and I getting together. It happened on Bonfire Night, after walking to the Radcliffe Arms pub for dinner with our friends and watching the fireworks being set off in back gardens all … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, bonfire, cinnamon, crumble, dessert, food, guy fawkes, recipe, vegetarian
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Tarte Tatin
Ingredients (serves 6 – or 2 if that’s all you’re eating for dinner) 1 block of frozen puff pastry 8 tart eating apples ¾ stick of butter (about 3 oz) 1 cup (7 oz ish) of sugar Oven proof pan … Continue reading
Tagged apple, dessert, tart, tarte tatin, vegetarian
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Raspberry and Blackberry Tart
Ingredients 1 sheet of defrosted puff pastry 1 cup of ricotta cheese (or thereabouts) 2 tbsp sugar (vanilla sugar if you have any) 1 tsp good vanilla essence (if you don’t have vanilla sugar) 1 pint of raspberries ½ pint … Continue reading
Tagged blackberry, dessert, raspberry, ricotta cheese, tart, vanilla sugar
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The Monday Treat – cinnamon pecan vanilla cheesecake with a hot toffee apple sauce
It was my birthday this weekend, and I celebrated with duck and pancakes with a side order of good friends down in Chinatown followed by champagne and cheesecake at home. Now don’t get me wrong, I love cake cake, and … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, cheesecake, cream, dessert, graham crackers, Katz vs Carnegie, pecans, recipe, toffee, vegetarian
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Green and Blacks Mayan Gold Chocolate Pots
Ingredients (serves 4 – 6 depending on the size of your ramekins) 2 bars of Mayan Gold chocolate ¾ cup of heavy cream and ¼ cup of milk 1 large organic fresh egg. Break two bars of Mayan Gold chocolate … Continue reading
Tagged chocolate, chocolate pot, cream, dessert, mayan gold, treat, vegetarian
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The Monday Treat – Affogato
Coffee has been something of the Topic Of The Week, well, with my husband at any rate. The Physics Department, deeming fancy coffee unnecessary on purely academic grounds, is rationing stocks for the summer. Supplies have now run out altogether. … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, dessert, ice cream, Mysteries of the Universe, vanilla, vegetarian
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