Chocolate truffle tart

2022-08-18T12:29:33+02:00Friday, 8 October 2021| Sweet tooth|Tags: , |

Saturday, 9 October, is official Pinotage Day. I don’t exactly need an excuse to open a bottle of this truly South African cultivar, but I got one when the folks from FAT Bastard Wines sent me this recipe for a chocolate truffle tart. They recon it’s the ideal decadent treat to pair with their Pinotage. Showcasing ripe plums and rich [...]

Apricot rosemary tarte tatin

2022-08-18T12:32:23+02:00Thursday, 16 January 2020| Baking|Tags: |

When it comes to French cooking, there are two schools. There’s the Escoffier 20-step/3-day frightfully involved kinda cooking. Totally fabulous – as long as you can afford to pay someone else to do it. And then there’s the kind that every French maman practices – stonkingly good food whipped up in hardly any time, using very few ingredients of the [...]

Milk tart mille feuille

2022-08-18T12:32:49+02:00Monday, 12 November 2018| Baking, Sweet tooth|Tags: , |

Christmas is coming folks! I know this because this past Saturday I finally capitulated – and put up all my Christmas decorations. It may seem early, but given that I’ve been contemplating doing so since the beginning of October, I think I’ve shown remarkable restraint. I obviously feel about Christmas the way a 5-year-old does – super duper excited. So now [...]

Pear and marzipan tartlets with chocolate ganache

2022-08-23T09:10:22+02:00Wednesday, 11 June 2014| Baking, Sweet tooth|Tags: , , |

The thing about spending the amount of time in the kitchen that I do, is things can get a bit lonely. Merlot is an excellent conversationalist, to be sure. But as I don’t actually speak 'cat', her incessant chatter isn’t exactly what I would call spell binding. So when the inimitable Nina Timm from My Easy Cooking asked if I’d [...]

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