Recipes

Okay, I lied. There’s nothing squeezy about this recipe! Got home from uni at 1pm and was starved, so I wanted something warm, comforting and filling. Not including time taken to prepare the chicken (I am a chicken nazi - I’m terrified of the fat in the skin so will painstakingly sit and remove every [...]



So, there is a special someone that I need to impress with bakery/cookery prowess tomorrow. No, not the boyfriend as I’m not seeing him till majority of my assignments have been handed in as I don’t have the time for a social life right now. Sigh.
At any rate, I got home at 7:30pm, soggy from [...]



So, after Lisa posted about her Chocolate Espresso Cake with Caffe Latte Cream, I went into chocolate craving mode. Which, for me, is quite serious, as I’m actually not a chocaholic. I’ll have chocolate maybe 2-3 times a month, and the rest of the time I’m quite happy to snack on honey roasted cashews as [...]



This is a recipe for Suzi, a friend from work, who told me that she had some apples that needed using up! Suz, the apple pie recipe I posted below is almost no work at all (easy as pie? Wa-ha-ha-ha!), but in case that doesn’t take your fancy…

Apple tea cake (sans pictures as I haven’t [...]



2006
30 Apr

Profiterole joy

Have been feeling a bit emotionally delicate over the last week, so I decided to make myself some profiteroles with custard filling as a comfort food.

Oh, the joy! Crisp, slightly crunchy outsides with a thin layer of fluffy goodness inside, and at the heart - smooth, eggy custardy joy. My sister is also a bit [...]