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Blood Orange & Cardamom Olive Oil Cake with Campari Drizzle
TweetSome ingredients can be a complete bugger to get hold of can’t they? I’m talking of course from my personal situation of living in the less than central Beckenham, god knows how you cope if you live any further from the centre of … Continue reading
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Tagged blood oranges, Campari, cardamom, Dan Lepard, Franklins, Greek yoghurt, olive oil cake, pistachio
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Medjool Dates – Two Recipes, Both Deep Fried.
Tweet Who am I to refuse an offer of the gorgeous, the glorious Medjool dates? Can you tell I like them? They’re the dessert, sweet, ultimate gift of the fruit world. When the lovely peeps from Medjool sent me a pack to see what … Continue reading
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Tagged canape, candied pistachio, christmas, coffee, deep fried, doughnuts, gorgonzola, mahlep, marzipan, Medjool dates, pistachio
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Fig, Pistachio and Cardamom Friands
Tweet I had an overwhelming urge to bake friands this weekend. Don’t ask me why. Maybe it was a sharpness to the air that brought premonitions of Autumn and the desire to retreat to the kitchen. It could have just been that I’ve accumulated an … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cardamom, compote, fig, friand, golden icing sugar, pistachio, recipe, spelt flour
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Lemon, cardamom & pistachio deep fried cake bites, or a Happy Accident
Tweet I told you that when I tasted Ruby Violet’s lemon and cardamom ice cream at Brockley Market I was going to pinch the flavour combination didn’t I? There was something dreamy and faintly exotic about the marriage; sweet, zesty and light with that … Continue reading
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Tagged cake bites, cardamom, deep fried cake, lemon, lemon batter, Nigel Slater, pistachio, Ruby Violet
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Ricotta, Beetroot, Pistachio & Sour Cherry Rice & Quinoa Salad
Tweet A couple of weeks ago I had my Mother coming round for dinner and a catch up. Having not seen her for a while and it being just the two of us, I thought I’d create something that was wholly … Continue reading
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Tagged beenleigh blue, beetroot, blue cheese, camargue wild rice, Ottolenghi, pistachio, quinoa, recipe, ricotta, sour cherry
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