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Posted in Frozen goodies, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Aug 15th, 2010
So it seems that this blog is quickly becoming a shrine to David Lebovitz. I do realise that this could get boring for you, dear reader, but, what can I say? His recipes are damned good. I promise to have a break from ‘David talk’ for a couple of weeks. Right after this post. So [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Frozen goodies, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on Jul 27th, 2010
The Daring Bakers’ July challenge was a Swiss roll ice cream cake (see here). We made all the essential elements but did not quite manage to put them together. I was in charge of making two ice creams. Emily and I made the Swiss roll together. Here follows our recipes… I’ve tried making ice cream [...]
Posted in Frozen goodies, Kids, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jun 25th, 2010
I understand that not everyone likes banana. I encourage those people to stop reading now (yes, I mean you S & P). For the banana lovers, this recipe is so easy and tasty that it is absolutely ridiculous. I read about it ages ago on ‘where’s the beef’ (here for the regular version, here [...]
Posted in Frozen goodies, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Feb 23rd, 2010
And finally, dessert. I picked this one out of Saha, yet another one of the great cookbooks from the Malouf team. This dessert was, in my opinion, the star of the mezze feast (don’t tell the labne balls). Watermelon sorbet 800g watermelon flesh (about a quarter of a watermelon) 200g caster sugar 70g glucose (I [...]
Posted in Frozen goodies, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jan 19th, 2010
Last week, my lovely cousin A. came to stay. Being the lovely cousin that she is, she brought us some chai tea as a gift. Thanks A! We decided to make some chai ice cream, and A. found this recipe at ‘Simply Recipes’. It seemed worthy of attempting. This is what we did… Ingredients: 1 [...]
