Fruit

Mirabelle Plums

September 10, 2010
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My favourite jam is made with either mirabelle plums or greengages, also from the family of plums.  It’s very hard to get hold of mirabelle jam where I live and for that reason it will go straight into my shopping trolley if I spot it, if you come across the St Dalfour range you may [...]

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Doughnut, Donut Nectarines

August 31, 2010
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I saw these for the very first time today.  Have never seen or heard anyone coming across them before.  I had to go into High Holborn to the divorce courts again, fourth time now, for a copy of my absolute, again…you see…I said things weren’t straight forward.  I was walking along Kingsway just past the [...]

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Poaching Peaches

August 25, 2010
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The amount of times I look at a pack of peaches, they can look so attractive with dark peachy colour, fooling you into a sense of ripeness and of course they’re not.  If you’re lucky enough and they ripen at home they still won’t have the natural sugar they should have if they were tree [...]

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Doughnut Peaches, Donut Peaches, UFO Peaches

August 1, 2010
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I fell in love with these white flesh peaches seven years ago in Lake Guarda, Northern Italy on my first holiday with Bikerboy.  In a picture perfect town called Limone with hilly cobble streets leading to the blue waters of the lake.  They were sublime.  White peaches have an amazing sweet fragrant flesh and these [...]

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Double Strawberry Muffins or Cakes

May 31, 2010
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I first made these cakes last summer and had posted them in my old blog and since strawberries are now appearing everywhere it seems appropriate to transfer the recipe here.   I came to create these cakes because last year I went through a phase of trying to find a sponge cake recipe for my [...]

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Rhubarb and Orange Blossom

May 20, 2010
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Last year I experimented with rhubarb and raspberries quite a bit, rhubarb and raspberry sorbet and a variation was adding some rose water…it’s a post I still have to move from my old blog to here….rhubarb and raspberries go well together not just for flavour but if you want your summer rhubarb to be luscious [...]

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Mango Amelie Not An Alphonso But Still Worth Eating

April 25, 2010
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I came across this type of mango ‘Amelie’ from Burkina Faso on one of my shopping trips (had to look up where Burkina Faso was) and looking at the skin alone they promised to be different from the usual fibrous large types we normally see here, Kent is one of the fibrous varieties grown in [...]

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How To: Cut a Mango

April 25, 2010
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Passion Fruit Curd

April 4, 2010
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My parents are lucky enough to be able to grow passion fruit on their acre of land and when the fruit is ready for picking my mother goes through the process of scooping out the insides and freezing it for a later date.  I wish they didn’t live a plane journey away. I adore passion [...]

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Apple & Brown Sugar Cake

March 23, 2010
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It’s time to bake a cake. It’s been very difficult with the ups and downs Bikerboy and I have been through with our 2 year old diagnoses of Cerebral Palsy and the middle child has had a rough time too lately with her allergies that seem to be getting worse, the list is getting longer [...]

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The Lemon Tart

March 7, 2010
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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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Mille Feuille For Every Season – strawberries, pears, pineapples, bananas, mango

January 21, 2010
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The title says it all, have the mille fueille any time of year, with any combination of fruit and any cream, traditional custard the crème pâtissière, simple whipped cream, mascarpone and crème fraiche or even chocolate mousse.  Mille feuille in Portuguese, called ‘mile folhas’, a thousand leaves, is very easy to make if buying your puff [...]

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Pear Syrup from Poached Pears – A Syrup Never tasted So Good

January 13, 2010
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This isn’t so much a posting about a recipe because urmmm there’s no recipe but it’s about a Kitchen Accidental that turned into my favourite syrup.  I’m not a syrup fan, golden syrup to me is for pouring into recipes and if I had to pick one would be maple syrup over freshly made waffles [...]

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Chocolate and Pear Tart (Chocolate Cream Cheese)

December 11, 2009
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Today is cold but sunny and the sort of day where I should be doing three things at once in order to get through my ‘to do list’. I’m not sure why I bother with a to do list, do not remember ever completing one but I do keep adding to it. All they do [...]

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