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Best intentions? Well, brûlée for you!
With all the gravitas of a 1960s Ealing comedy, I convince myself that the Christmas hoo-ha is mostly a state of mind. This year it will be considered, a steady reserved affair, emotionally...
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Christmas turkey called Murray
Imagine if you can the towering, svelte, red-head, a gawky teenager. Trifle, (spell check grr), no Tricel, taking precedence over luxurious satin, that once charged with static clings with better...
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Blueberry, Lime and Vodka Sorbet
Blueberry, lime and vodka sorbet I find myself with some rather dashing blueberries, a bowl of ‘sorry for themselves’ limes with amour plating instead of fresh zesty skins. My mind fritters back...
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Zuccotto, a-do-what-oh? Currant affairs and a clementine sorbet
This jolly fine thing has been a ticking-ice-cream-bombe waiting in the wings for the end of the festive hoo ha. An annual and ultimate dairy user-upper. All the cream, eggs, custard and goodly...
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Chocolate platter and a chocolate pancake stack
I’m not adverse to a crepe Suzette here and there, mostly there as they seemingly slide south to ones hips, adding both unnecessary bulk and comparable texture! White sitting on ones gastronomic...
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Easter Egg Ice Cream Cake hits the Chocky Wocky Road
Ones culinary disposition toward the ‘lob it all in’ method in combination with the’ I need to get a wiggle on’ gifts a swift frozen Easter dessert. The Easter bunny has lost his ribbon bow tie and is...
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Easter Egg Ice Cream Cake in subsequence
Oh yes, absolutely L’decorator provocateur chocolatier! The Chocky Wocky Road became a Chocky Wonky Hillock on the Wocky road to pure chaos. There was limited decorous intention. Little more than...
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Gin and Grapefruit sorbet plus a little ‘Givré’ and take.
Ones givré and take quip notices that our french chums have taken the time to give a name to this humble ‘sorbet-minded’ activity. Supported by a hapless wander through my culinary tomes, the...
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Blossom peppermint creams
You know how it is, a knob of left over fondant icing teeters precariously on the edge of a work top, likely destined for the bin, unless I can think of a anti fondant use for it? The phone rings...
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Strawberry daiquiri sorbet with elderflower
“We are going to the farm to pick some strawberries” declared ones cheffy chum? Cascading chandeliers of colour changing berries turning from green to white then become resplendent red in the...
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Blueberry thrill, just not on a hill? Blueberry ice cream and meringues
One could hardly miss the ‘Jordie’ banter as we patiently waited in the queue. A couple of tourists, the lady of whom, had 2 ginger cakes and a two-pound coin in her hand and was as I understand it,...
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The buzz on honey ice’d cream
With an undulating and extraordinary landscape that surrounds us, green folds that have barely changed since Romans tramped across them whilst heading south. (Chants “you’re not bringing that xxx...
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Pimped pumpkin ice cream shots
As I open the door of the freezer, it resembles the north face of the Eiger, and needs addressing. So I wish it “Good morning” and slam the door closed for fear of an avalanche. Further more, if...
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The candied cranberry crown jewels.
This post may contain nuts. I had tried to explain, and offer, a tasting of dried cranberries to our larger than life house keeping lady, with whom language is no barrier. Since we are regular...
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Cranberry, port and beetroot sorbet
Phwoare (expletive) (expletive) Lady, you know how to live! Can I be a (expletive) house plant in your house? Thinks, “I feel you may be extremely well qualified?” “Fancy (expletive), I just mean...
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Saffron meringues with pistachio ice cream dressed with rose syrup and a...
Saffron meringues with pistachio ice cream dressed with rose syrup and a sweet Dukkah. Dukkah Dukkah Dukkah, I find myself playing mental helicopters, working on a jolified-hand-jive on the...
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Lemon meringue parrot ice cream
Once upon thyme, and whilst eating a galaxy bar, far away (in Cornwall), where resides an Eclectus pet parrot, love looms large, bread pudding and lemon meringue pie are considered currency....
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Strawberries in purgatory, a strawberry chilly chilli sorbet
The snobberies of “fein dining” anyone? Cool strawberry sorbet delicately embroidered with chilli? Well hardly, she’s just a cheeky little strawberry sorbet, though pert and perky, with a pop of...
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Peerless Pear and jolly ginger sorbet, with a whiff of bergamot (so often...
Ones chef chum turns up. Lower half-clad in a bejewelled kaftan, top half looking like a badly camouflaged mercenary at jewel fest. ” Look at these! “ ‘These‘ were her shanghaied, lovely, big,...
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Give us your lolly, this is a stick up! Well raspberry popsicles to you!
Surrounded by yodeling builders who, like thermal clad caterpillars, have butterflied into a bevy of bronzed, body-beautiful builders (small compensation). It’s been a tad longer than a few...
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