Category: Desserts
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Tarte Belle Helene
Truth be told, in the interest of my expanding waistline, I don’t make desserts unless I have visitors these days. Last week, I had a house full so I made two French classics – delicious little ‘pots au citron’ and, as I had pears to use up, this delicious pear and chocolate tarte. Both were…
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Malaga raisin ice cream with Pedro Ximenez sherry
The best raisin ice cream you’ll ever eat! I first ate this fabulous ice cream at Sam & Sam Clark’s Moro restaurant in London – I’d never tasted anything quite like it. The ice cream is a basic custard-based vanilla ice cream. The real show stopping aspect is that the raisins are soaked in Pedro…
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Apricot and almond crumble
I have a pretty big collection of cookery books, most of which have really beautiful pictures of finished dishes in them, often in settings that evoke the feelings of a season or a location that inspired them. We eat with our eyes so they say, so it’s understandable that we are drawn to cook the…
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