Saturday, January 11, 2014

Mmmmm, Food...

I haven't posted any recipes recently so I thought I'd just do a picture gallery of a few of the recent(ish) things I've made (in no particular order). If you want to know more then let me know!

Chocolate hazelnut tart, cranberry and stilton bread and meringue
JalapeƱo and cheddar bread
Leek, potato and stilton pie with homemade rough puff pastry
White chocolate and raspberry bread - doesn't look the best but tasted amazing
Fresh sea urchin from Fin - yum!
Profiteroles with maple syrup cream inside
My first gingerbread house (i didn't bake the g-bread though)
Fruit bread with lemon icing and a walnut plaited loaf
Tiramisu cookies
My first Christmas cake
Christmas pudding
Three of the 13 eggplants we grew on the balcony
Apple and cheddar stuffed bread
Hot cross buns for Easter
Rhubarb crumble with foraged wild rhubarb and fried dandelion flowers
I have two loaves of foccacia rising right now - made with my new KitchenAid stand mixer. I hope they taste as good as these did!

2 comments:

  1. Wow - I am impressed! How do you make the puff pastry, we eat a lot of pies these days but always just buy the pre-made stuff at Sainsburys, I think I'd rather make it myself but I don't know where to start. I would guess it involves a lot of butter and flour :)

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  2. I didn't realize how much butter went into puff pastry - the rough puff I made isn't even as buttery as real puff pastry! It wasn't that hard to make, it was time consuming but most of it is waiting around while the pastry chills between rolling it out. I used this recipe.. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2403/roughpuff-pastry- and it worked pretty well :-)

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