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Dessert

Triple ginger cake

3 May 2012 Cakes
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Every so often the other half bakes one of the most glorious cakes I’ve eaten. Over the years this recipe has evolved into being more moist and even more gingery thanks to someones heavy-handling with three types of ginger. Crystalised, fresh and dried. Combined they make for a tongue-tingling spicy cake darkened with blackstrap molasses. [...]

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Yakitoritei – Tin Hau, HK

12 April 2012 Dessert
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Stepping away from the Hong Kong tourist trail can only come with the highest recommendations. I reckon that applies to any city in the world. This trip wasn’t about The Peak, the nightly light show or climbing the steps of the worlds largest outdoor bronze buddha. That was done years ago. This trip was all [...]

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Palacinke sa smoke {pancakes with figs}

15 March 2012 Croatian
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I reckon one of my earliest memories, way back when I only spoke Croatian, was tucking into warm and freshly made palacinke (crêpes) sprinkled with sugar and drizzled with fresh lemon juice. Fifteen years later, during my apprenticeship, I spent a good 2 hours every afternoon flipping the dreaded things for the trade that evening. I solemnly swore to [...]

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Saltenosses

22 February 2012 Dessert
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The first I heard of saltenosses was when talking with a man in his 80′s about the food he ate as a youngster. His mother used to make these for him many years ago, when he referred to them as being salty noses. I immediately began looking online for these Jewish dumplings and came away [...]

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Shoofly pie with pecans + white cherries

18 January 2012 American
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It’s pretty ironic that a fly should land on my arm whilst rolling out the pastry for this pie, quickly buzzing away when I said words a little more harsh than shoo.  I mean, really, who says shoo in this day and age other than your nanna or some stressed-out Amish woman freaking out because flies keep landing on [...]

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Frangelico bread puddings + blackcurrants

11 January 2012 Dessert
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The good old bread pudding started it’s life sometime in the early 17th century as a means of using up stale bits of bread, first steamed with either meat or fruit and then baked. As more luxurious ingredients such as sugar, eggs, milk and butter became available the bread and butter pudding was born. These days [...]

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Peach cobbler

2 January 2012 Cakes
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A recent conversation with Anna over at The Littlest Anchovy led to what we were going to cook on the weekend. I think for both of us it’s the only real time we have to cook for our blogs and while I was unsure what I was doing, Anna already had hers planned. She asked [...]

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The ChikaLicious experience – East Village, NYC

30 December 2011 Dessert
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Prior to setting off on our US trip I came across a blog mentioning a certain cookie I simply knew I had to sink my teeth into. Situation dark. I mean, what kind of name is that? Located on East 10th Street in the East Village is this hole-in-the-wall dessert place with some of the [...]

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