Ever since I went to the Diner in Spitalfields I've been daydreaming about their fries with crispy onion, bacon bits, cheese and burger sauce. I've never had anything like it - incredibly calorific but they tasted amazing. Often when you get cheesy chips in this country, they have had cheddar melted over them, and left to harden, so you end up with most of the chips plain, and a few with congealed cheese on them - not something I particularly like....
Miyerkules, Abril 29, 2015
Martes, Abril 28, 2015
Mini Ginger Madeleines
Posted on 12:42 PM by Treasa Reinbolt
I've always associated madeleines with Proust's 'A la recherché du temps perdu' (I studied French literature at university) but have never actually eaten let alone made them before Madeleines are a French cake made with a genoise batter, making them lighter than other cakes, and are baked in special shell-shaped moulds. I was offered a selection of products to review by Cake Mart, and spotted they had this madeleine tin which is a very pretty...
Lunes, Abril 27, 2015
Meal Planning Monday - Week 18
Posted on 12:13 AM by Treasa Reinbolt
This week I'm trying to use up stuff from the freezer so I don't have to buy too much fresh stuff, as we are going on holiday soon!
Monday
Lunch: pasta
Dinner: sandwich before cake decorating course
Tuesday:
Lunch: salad
Dinner: spaghetti bolognese
Wednesday: my birthday!
Lunch: out with work colleagues
Dinner: out with my boyfriend
Thursday
Lunch: salad
Dinner: pork casserole with veg for me, sausage and mash for him
Friday - working from...
Linggo, Abril 26, 2015
Restaurant Review: Heston Blumenthal's The Perfectionists' Cafe
Posted on 12:14 AM by Treasa Reinbolt
Since starting to post restaurant reviews on my blog I’ve made a real effort not to visit the same place twice – unless it was somewhere I really loved. The same applies to airports – when I was in my 20s I would take a sandwich to eat before a flight but these days having a meal at the airport is part of the holiday. It’s just a shame that food there is so expensive and in some cases not that good.
When we went to Vienna a few months...
Sabado, Abril 25, 2015
Caramel-filled Chocolate Brownies
Posted on 7:14 AM by Treasa Reinbolt
These are based on the salted caramel brownies that Alexa Chung made on the recent Comic Relief Great British Bake Off. I made them for my boyfriend's birthday as I wanted him to have something nice in his lunchbox at work; they also made for a quick dessert that evening at home (we had his family over for dinner). And they tasted amazing!
I followed the recipe which is here, though as I was short of time I used a tin of Carnation Caramel as...
Biyernes, Abril 24, 2015
Slimming World Asparagus and Red Pepper Muffins
Posted on 9:44 AM by Treasa Reinbolt
Now that the weather is getting nicer our thoughts are turning to al fresco eating. Whether it's a picnic in the park with your friends, high tea at the garden table with the family or even just taking your packed lunch outside the office to eat on a bench, you are going to need recipes which are easy to
throw together in a hurry, can be packed up and eaten cold - preferably without the need for cutlery!
These asparagus and red pepper 'muffins'...
Miyerkules, Abril 22, 2015
Restaurant Review: Giraffe Kiosk, King's Cross
Posted on 11:56 PM by Treasa Reinbolt
Opinions on the Giraffe restaurant chain seem to be divided – the fact that it is usually full of families with children seems to put a lot of people off – but I really like it. So one day when I was travelling to London’s King’s Cross station for a morning meeting, and arrived so early I decided I had time to get breakfast (having skipped it at home as I was in a rush to leave) I was pleased when I spied a Giraffe Kiosk.
This is the chain’s...
Martes, Abril 21, 2015
Best-Ever Lemon Cake for a Baby Shower
Posted on 11:43 PM by Treasa Reinbolt
This is a perfect cake for someone going on maternity leave or who has just had a baby – a deliciously light, zingy lemon cake decorated with a teddy bear and a bow.
I made this for the lovely lady I sit next to at work for her last day before maternity leave. I’ve made a couple of cakes for baby showers before and
didn’t want to do exactly the same thing again, but it’s hard to think of something completely different (and I flatly refuse...
Formula 1 Foods: Bahrain round-up and the next challenge
Posted on 11:25 AM by Treasa Reinbolt
Last weekend's Grand Prix took place in Bahrain which was a hard one for many of us in food terms. The idea of the challenge is to make something from or inspired by the host country of each Formula 1 race and I'd never eaten let alone made anything from Bahrain before. So it was funny that of the three entries I had this month, two of us made the same dish!
Suelle at Mainly Baking made this Middle Eastern date cake, which uses rose water, cardamom,...
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