Category: Dessert
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Virtual Dinner Party No. 7 – Bulgar Soup, Lamb Fillet, Quince Cake!
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(Update: For VDP No. 8, click here) Coronavirus Lockdown With most of us in self-isolation or even total lockdown, a VDP (virtual dinner party) is one way to catch up with friends and to continue to test your cooking skills. We have now had a number of VDPs. Here is the link to the first…
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Beetroot – Salads, two Dips, one Cake!
My father, George, grew beetroot for as long as I can remember. He would generally pick them when they were quite large, in order to gain maximum food quantity to feed the large family, but they were always beautifully tender. Growing up, only the ‘red’ variety was available; and it was also known as red…
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What’s in the Fridge? No. 9
Christmas Sink Cake The Olive’s Kitchen recipe for Summer Fruit Cake is very versatile. You can modify the ingredients in many ways, keeping the key cake ingredients (dry and wet) to roughly the same proportions. The fruit, including the apple, can be varied according to what you have on hand. The recipe came in handy…
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New York City – The Big Cheesecake!
This continues on from New York – Settling In! New York may well be called the Big Apple, but if it were to have a signature dish my guess it would be ‘cheesecake’. This blog post is about a cheesecake, a strawberry blonde one. You hear about my first encounter with it and our experience…
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Indigo Valley – Home Grown Produce!
Several years ago, Barry and Liz wound up their professional jobs in teaching and accounting-law in East Gippsland, and moved to the Indigo Valley in north-eastern Victoria. That enabled them to relocate to Liz’s family home and farm, where several siblings live nearby. We recently made the four hour trip up from Melbourne to see…
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Work in Progress – No. 2
We experiment often, trying new methods or recipes or trying to recreate something we have eaten somewhere or other. There are successes and failures, there is elation and disappointment, failure and triumph. Eskimo Pies We have probably all eaten the ice cream called Eskimo Pies, a chocolate coated block of vanilla ice cream, encased in…
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The Simplest, Most Perfect Dessert!
Some years ago I had what, for me, was the most perfect of desserts. It was at The Willows, in its period as a fine dining restaurant in a lovely old mansion in St Kilda Road, Melbourne. It was lunch time, a warm December day and there were five of us around the table. Looking…
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Nature, History … And Clafoutis!
Note: Recipe for clafoutis with ricotta updated May 2020. New Norfolk is an historical town 35 kilometres and 35 minutes’ drive north-west of Hobart. It is there that the sea water of the Derwent estuary ends and the fresh water of the Derwent River takes over, with the river taking on a totally different character…