The official name for this recipe, which comes from Less Meat, More Veg, is ‘Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Spread’, but I like to think of it as Chocolate for Breakfast, as that is basically the point. You can say all…
Category: vegetarian
Review: Less Meat, More Veg, by Rachel de Thample
You can’t imagine how good our house smells right now. There’s just something about the smell of any kind of stock cooking that makes a house smell wonderful. Add to that the smell of stewed apples and melted chocolate and…
Recipe: Three Roasted Vegetable Soups
Three recipes in one post today, because it’s the same (very easy!) method, but with markedly different flavours. I’ve given recipes for a very simple but delicious pumpkin soup, a subtly perfumed beetroot soup and a creamy Jerusalem artichoke soup,…
Recipe: Coconut and Lemon Buttercream
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. …
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…