I’m completely in love with words about food. My cookbooks, my folders of printed out recipes found online and notebooks of handwritten recipes are prized possessions. There’s a distinct possibility I could feature on the recipe edition of Hoarders. Every so often, to ensure I don’t have to be dug out from beneath a pile of…
Category: baking
Apricot Bretonne
It might be too late: apricot season might already be over, but if you can find some late-season beauties then you need to make an apricot bretonne. It’s the ultimate summer apricot tribute: tangy and meltingly soft apricots on top of a buttery shortcake with a delicious dusting of cinnamon sugar. It’s best eaten warm…
Roasted white chocolate & miso blondie
On the eve of my glutard diagnosis at the peak of (or descent into) my gluten grief, my sister brought me a tub of Duck Island roasted white chocolate and miso ice cream. Insanely delicious, this tub of gluten free gold restored my faith that maybe there was life after gluten. Featuring the well-established combination of salty, unami, and sweet, the roasted white chocolate…
Treacle caraway & apple muffins
Caraway seeds look confusingly like cumin seeds and as such their most common use in my kitchen is when I don’t look closely at the jar and use caraway instead of cumin. Caraway and cumin seeds are most definitely not interchangeable. Caraway seeds taste almost sweetly of aniseed in a refreshing palette-cleansing way, whereas cumin is…
cake for breakfast 