Dairy Free

Spelt, Carrot, Pineapple, Allspice Cake

January 23, 2012
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I will return to making this cake again and add more photos. Yesterday I wanted to make a cake for Bikerboy’s birthday weekend and one of his favourite cakes is Carrot Cake but he also loves pineapple which reminded me there are recipes somewhere in my books for Passion Cake containing pineapple, some of the [...]

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Chestnut & Almond Cake – Gluten-free, Dairy-free

November 19, 2011
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It has taken longer than I intended to post this recipe because cake number two and three didn’t turn out as planned when experimenting and I wanted to make certain by the fourth one I had ironed out problems. The cake has a lovely mousse texture, very soft, although in photos it appears solid, it’s [...]

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Tarka,Tadka, Chaunk, Dhungar: Tempering Spices & Making Dal

November 15, 2011
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I’ve recently made 2 posts on spices and now would like to mention one of my favourite ways of spicing lentils; tarka.  Tarka, tadka or chaunk and also known by other names if you look on wiki here, is a very good way of spicing food, not just legumes. I first noticed it years ago [...]

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Dan Lepard’s Slider Buns with Buffalo Burger

November 11, 2011
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Dan asked Luc, Fergus and I to do a home trial of his slider buns coming out tomorrow in his Guardian column, Luc’s results are here, and Fergus’ buns are here.   What’s so different about these buns?  It’s the method, using a roux method.  I first heard about this from a blogger friend Sunflower [...]

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Spelt Apple Cake (dairy-free)

October 7, 2011
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It occurred to me to try spelt flour in a cake when I came across a bakery in St Albans, Hertfordshire,  selling a huge range of baked products using spelt flour.  The other reason was because I have English white spelt flour in the cupboard that is pretty poor quality for bread (I had bought [...]

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All In One Meringue Method

October 5, 2011
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I have a friend who’s complaint was she couldn’t make French meringues.   I can understand how people get in a muddle with pastry as the fat melts, breaks the pastry and so on, but with meringue it’s a simple matter of whisking and they’ve always performed for me.  This friend can bake so I [...]

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Gooey Meringue Is Not Good & Is Not Pavlova

September 19, 2011
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At the beginning of my cooking life meringue had a defined role in the baking world, crispness.  Over recent years I’ve noticed it has become a substitute for pavlova and I would like to put my case why it shouldn’t.  Meringues when baked to the point the middle is still gooey and soft causes a [...]

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Carrot top “pataniscas”

August 23, 2011
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I had bought a bunch of pretty yellow and red carrots at the farmers’ market and decided to use them in salads to best show off their colour.  The tops were still vibrant and fresh looking and rather than doing the normal of throwing them in the bin I remembered Carl had twittered his recipe [...]

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Lentil Curry, Spinach Curry with Fresh Apricots

August 21, 2011
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I have to make a note of these curries I quickly made last night otherwise they will be forgotten never to be made again which according to my oldest daughter is a habit of mine.  When I make it again I will take better photos and post those.  It was one of those full days, [...]

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BBQ Nectarines or Peaches with Vin Santo

August 13, 2011
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I made these for the first time two years ago and then again last year.   White nectarines but equally good with ripe peaches charred and warmed through on the barbecue using the last of its heat then sprinkled with your favourite liqueur or dessert wine.  Very good served with a scoop of ice-cream.

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Fish Stuffed with Herbs

August 13, 2011
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This is the sort of meal I like to cook in any given evening, easy to prepare and packs so much flavour which I can change depending on my whim on the day.  I came across these long fillets of hake, quite unusual where I live, as soon as I spotted them I started to [...]

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Fish in Herb Salt Crust

August 13, 2011
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I made this recipe by Giorgio Locatelli back in the Spring, it’s his version of the more classic salt crust baked fish as I’ve made here.  Giorgio makes it with seabass fillets rather than a whole seabass like mine.  The recipe is here, scroll down to where it says Sea Bass in Sea Salt.  Last [...]

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Fish Baked in Salt Crust on the Barbecue

August 13, 2011
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These photos go back two summers, I’ve had them in my photo album with the idea of repeating the experience this summer.  I would then take a lovely shot of the plated fish set on a stylised table with the backdrop of the green outlook of my garden.  I have no idea what happen to [...]

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In Search of a Good Dairy-free Brownie…

July 10, 2011
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As the title suggests I’m in search of a dairy-free chocolate brownie recipe.  This is my second try, the first attempt I used my usual chocolate brownie recipe from Green & Black’s book which is laden with butter, I replaced that with dairy-free margarine and under-baked them as normal.  Texture wise they turned out good, [...]

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Courgette (Zucchini) Summer Soup

July 6, 2011
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This soup originally came from the first River Café Cookbook, the blue one which I loved when it came out.  I wasn’t keen on their second book, the yellow, it seemed full of recipes for their wood-fired oven and generally less substantial.  I’ve been making this soup for as long as I’ve had my oldest [...]

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