Nobody should be denied a little pleasure in life. Nobody should have to make do with insipid desserts or cake just because they have an allergy, a food intolerance, or a medical condition. Where there’s a will, there is always a way to be inclusive and leave everyone else none the wiser, with a fabulous cake or dessert. This is pretty...
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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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I’d like to say this cake is guilt-free or that it is not a cheat meal … but I don’t subscribe to the notion of cheat meals, nor to the idea that food should ever cause feelings of guilt. I just don’t buy into that dogma. It implies that some foods or food groups are somehow wrong and by eating them we should be punished. ...
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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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I’ve been playing around with passionfruit in the kitchen for a few weeks now. My natural instincts would have lead me to a tangy, fruity dessert or pastry … passionfruit curd tart, passionfruit macarons, passionfruit and chocolate entremet, passionfruit and vanilla gelato, or a passionfruit and coconut panna cotta perhaps. I could go on. ...
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