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Tarts

The Art of French Baking

21 December 2011 Cakes
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My first step through the front door was met with an instant feeling of warmth and desire. The aroma of freshly baked pastry hung in the air, dripping with sweetness from slightly caramelised apricots and sugar. No, I wasn’t stepping into a pâtisserie on a Parisian back-street, I was stepping into my own front door [...]

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Black pudding, leek + goat’s cheese tart

11 May 2011 Recipes
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Wandering around Harris Farm Markets at Broadway I spotted some juicy looking blood sausages in the meat cabinet. I was instantly inspired to make a tart so I grabbed a good lump of goat’s cheese and a leek and shlepped home to dig out my rolling pin. This tart can be eaten any time of the day, [...]

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Goat’s cheese + caramelised garlic tart

11 January 2011 Recipes
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When I was in London recently staying at Miss K’s house I discovered a pile of recipe books on her fridge. Some were old, some were new and one had a bunch of stuff in it that I just had to have. Thanks to phone camera’s I didn’t have to sit and write recipes out like [...]

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Apricot clafouti

9 February 2010 Dessert
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This has got to be one of the easiest desserts you could make, and no, opening a tub of icecream and slapping a few scoops into a bowl and drizzling it with ice magic doesn’t count! Traditionally this French dessert uses fresh cherries but there’s an abundance of tasty little apricots at the moment so these golden [...]

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