This is a very quick and easy recipe for a lovely, rich, coconut-infused icing that is dairy free and will work on all sorts of citrus or coconut cakes, but particularly on the coconut and lemon cake found in Veganomicon. …
Category: Recipes
Basics that aren’t: Béchamel Sauce (and variations)
Ah, béchamel sauce. As I wrote yesterday, it is one of the great culinary classics that dates back at least as far as the kitchens of Antonin Carême and probably further… but it’s also a definitive ingredient in comfort foods…
Recipe: Chocolate Cake for Eurovision Semi-Finals
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…
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…
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. …
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…