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Thursday, 31 March 2011

Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days

I was a good girl at the dentist last week so I bought myself the above book as a treat..
First bakes from it happened today -
Blueberry cake (minus the pecans) and Snickerdoodles as a gift for our nursery manager who is going on maternity leave..

Saturday, 26 March 2011

Celebration meals

Not the big party sort, but the treat yourself sort.
Other half came back from a working away so dinner was prefaced by a cocktail (or two) and there was steak involved.
As he brought back a bottle of Absolut Raspberri (gotta love Duty Free) I found a recipe for a Koi Yellow

4 Parts Raspberri Vodka
2 parts Lemon Juice
1 part Simple Syrup
1 part Triple Sec
Shake with ice, strain and serve.
Delish

For dinner we had another Jamie 30 minuter.. Ribeye Steak with Dan Dan noodles..
The usual chaos ensued:

but the result was definitely worth it!

Lemon and Ricotta Cake

I found a "just about to go off" pot of ricotta at the back of my fridge the other day.
I'm not really one for spinach and ricotta pasta and as my other half was away, I certainly wasn't up for eating an entire pot of it myself in any format. So I made a cake.
This cake..

Sunday, 20 March 2011

Food of love

Milk and Dark Smashed Honeycomb Bars

Florentines

Chocolate coated pretzels

Fougasse bread

Brown butter biscuits

We went visiting this weekend, so I took homemade treats with me as a gift, made with love.

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

I'm so excited...

..bread is definitely my new mission.
Whilst I love cake, dearly, it's a bit of a treat and therefore I can't always bring myself to make it, or to try something new just for the sake of it. I know. Call myself a foodie.
Bread though, well, it's bread isn't it!

I got a copy of Robert Bertinet's Dough today. Wow. Wow wow wow. I definitely want to go on his course now but in the meantime the book and dvd will have to do.