March 2010

Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010

This noodle salad isn’t just to feed sixteen 15 year olds coming over to celebrate your daughter’s birthday, this is a good salad to make for family meals, pack lunch, to have in the fridge over the weekend giving you the answer to, ‘..what shall I snack on..’. This was a one of very two [...]

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Apple & Brown Sugar Cake

March 23, 2010

It’s time to bake a cake. This post was supposed to be many other things I have on the list but nothing seemed quite right because I don’t feel right, and food is very closely connected with emotions for me. If I don’t feel in the mood to cook something then it won’t turn out [...]

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Bikerboy’s Tiramisu

March 17, 2010

If I’m ever in a situation such as I accidently knock over Bikerboy’s bike…I’m not saying I have I’m just saying if I ever did when parking the car in the driveway..sort of accidently knocked his bike or perhaps scratched a little…there would very few things I could do to compensate for the immediate broken [...]

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Lightly Spiced Spinach with Apricots

March 14, 2010

Some dishes have personal memories attached to them and this is one of them. About two years into our relationship Bikerboy decided to cook Valentine’s dinner for me, he had picked out a recipe from the recently bought Cinnamon Club cookery book and saw a picture of a cylinder shaped breast of chicken stuffed with [...]

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Very Fudgey Chocolate Brownies

March 10, 2010

I have made these chocolate brownies for a few years and never had reason to look elsewhere for other recipes…I can be loyal like that…the fickle person that I am I can stick to something….there was no need….these provide everything I want in a chocolate brownie, with a high percentage of chocolate they’re very chocolatey [...]

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Scallops & Chorizo Bites

March 9, 2010

These little bites are not dissimilar to the dish of black pudding and scallops which has becomes a new classic. I came across these wild scallops and couldn’t resist doing something. I have a soft spot for chorizo, if I’m at home one of the dishes I make for lunch is a salad toped with [...]

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Creamy Leeks, Flageolet Beans with Tarragon

March 7, 2010

We’re a skip and hop away from Easter and for me that’s not far from the whole season changing with regards to food. As soon as I start seeing daffodils or any narcissus I want to say goodbye to the winter, start thinking about spring recipes and lighter meals but the thing is we’re not [...]

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The Lemon Tart

March 7, 2010

There is a limited range of adjectives you can use to describe food; exquisite, delicious, divine, delectable, mouthwatering, scrumptious, flavoursome, yummy, tasty and then you get into other description of, mmmmm….so good…OMG…kinda of vocabulary. After a few postings, having raided the thesaurus I can’t find a different way to describe something delicious and perfectly formed….I [...]

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Zabaglione, Zabaione or Sabayon with Pears

March 3, 2010

If you like your puddings to stick to the side of your ribs then make this to go with your sticky pudding as an alternative to cream, just make it less sweet. If you want the perfect dessert that will deliver a sweet kick at the end of a romantic meal but not get [...]

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