Dips, Dressings, Sauces & Spreads
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I’m a sucker for a strawberry. I inhale them through the summer and I spend the rest of the year pining for these adorable ruby red berries to come back into my life. Thankfully, we’ve gotten over our period of imported berries and the ones [...]
My brother is a health nut. Almost every day for lunch he has a tuna salad (tuna in springwater, chopped vegetables with no dressing!) and he rarely if ever indulges in naughty things such as sweets, cookies, cakes or chocolate. In fact, I often have to cajole him to give any of my baking a [...]
I make no secret of the fact that I thorough adore being in the kitchen - I feel like I’m truly in my element when I am chopping, blending or mixing, and so I rarely notice the time passing when I am merrily humming away in the the kitchen whilst doing my thing. However, occasionally [...]
If you’ve managed to make the Pâte à Brioche Feuilletée and survive, well done! Now, as the best application for this beautiful dough, here’s the recipe for these gorgeous Pains aux raisins - a truly delightful and calorific treat!
Pains Aux Raisins
(from The Cook’s Book)
Ingredients
1x Pâte à Brioche Feuilletée dough
200g almond cream (frangipane)
250g sultanas/white raisins, soaked [...]
I have a problem.
What is that problem, you ask? The fact that I can rarely follow a recipe to the letter. I don’t know what it is, but I always find myself tinkering, trying to get the flavours adjusted to my tastes rather than trusting the person who wrote the recipe to begin with. [...]
