I was going to write a nice sensible post next, the start of a series on basics which aren’t as basic as they are supposed to be. In honour of Carême, it was going to be about bechamel sauce. But…
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Review: Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, by Ian Kelly
Subtitled A biography with recipes, this is the biography of Marie-Antoine Carême, a man from extremely poverty-stricken origins who grew to become a celebrity chef – he cooked, at one time or another, for Napoleon, for the Prince Regent, for…
Recipe: Chocolate and Chestnut Cupcakes
This recipe is truly mine – I combined so many different recipes in the making of it, and added so many other random elements that I don’t think I could plot its ancestry if I tried. Sort of like the…
Show-off post – Wedding Cakes!
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Recipe: Lentils with Peppers
This recipe is my adaptation of a recipe in Cook Simple by Diana Henry. Diana Henry’s recipe is an adaptation of a recipe in A Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden. And so the cycle of recipe-adaptation continues. …
Review: Cook Simple, by Diana Henry
Is it even possible to have a single favourite cookbook? A specialised cookbook about chocolate is in a whole different category to a culinary encyclopedia or a baking book or an Italian cookbook… and I have favourites in all these…
Recipe: Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla Ice-cream for the Indecisive But Enthusiastic Cook
Your shopping list… 1 1/2 cups cream 1 1/2 cups milk (I used low-fat, but I gather one is supposed to use whole milk) 1 vanilla bean 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup good cocoa 2 large eggs + 1 egg…
The tyranny of the blank page – and ice cream!
Welcome to my first blog post. Actually, in a little while it may stop looking like my first blog post, because I have all sorts of recipes and articles squirrelled away that I intend to put here eventually, and I…