If you didn’t get the Wizard of Oz reference in the title, do you remember when the fab four were marching through the forest chanting “Lions and tigers and bears!”, as they made their way to the Emerald City? I love that film. I blame my mother for my love of classic Hollywood musicals … The Wizard of Oz, Singing in the...
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You can only stay away from making pastry for so long before the desire overwhelms you like a tidal wave of flaky deliciousness … and you find yourself rolling and cutting out dough to line tart tins once more with delight. Just me? I doubt it. But it certainly describes how I’ve been feeling for the past week or so. I promised my father I...
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I usually make a tiramisù at Easter. It is a wonderful tiramisù and deservedly popular. I won’t even bother with false modesty on this one. It’s sensational. Those of you who follow the Facebook page would know that I attended a course on French Entremets earlier in the week and that meant I had plenty of Easter dessert action happening...
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Free time. We all wish we had more of it. Everyone seems to be time poor these days. I think we have to make more free time for ourselves. It rarely, if ever, just happens. How many of us waste the opportunity when it does, and we’re unprepared? Remember, as a child, how a day seemed so endless? A week felt like an eternity? As an...
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We always recall the truly memorable food moments in our lives with a smile and a longing to revisit the flavours, the textures, the sensory experience of that gastronomic interlude. Sometimes we can, other times it must remain a sublime memory … perhaps associated with a special occasion, with people we love dearly, or places we have travelled to,...
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