african vanielje on Jul 12 2008 | Filed under: baking, bread, cheese, chocolate, sweet kitchen
Yes, once again I have spent a lazy Saturday morning bread baking, blogsurfing and generally pottering around in a quiet and peaceful house. I’ve drunk copious amounts of coffee, played with my next door neighbour’s new puppy, Perfect. Yes that is really his name, short for Perfect Paradise Mark II. Mark [...]
african vanielje on Jul 01 2008 | Filed under: Fruit, WTSIM..., baking, food blogging event, sweet kitchen
Doesn’t this photo just say it all. Summer on a plate. I defy anyone not to dive in when a platter of these makes its appearance at any summer party. I can barely believe that these were an afterthought. They were the leftovers from a batch of puff pastry I made [...]
african vanielje on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: Africa, Fruit, baking, chocolate, sweet kitchen, vkcb
Fragrant piles of bite sized crispy biscuits are my idea of heaven, and these bitter cocoa butterflies certainly deliver. Simple to make, they rely on excellent quality pure cocoa, so don’t bother with an adulterated, sweetened brand.
Originally taken from Regan Daley’s book ‘In the Sweet Kitchen’, I have made these so many times I [...]
african vanielje on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: Fruit, baking, kids cooking, sweet kitchen
Biscuits are one of the things I most enjoy making. Not least because I love to bake. Biscuits are versatile, varied and generally very easy. A delicious batch can be knocked up in no time from ingredients I almost always have on hand.
Most cookie doughs are not only addictively yummy eaten raw, [...]
african vanielje on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: baking, chocolate, food blogging event, ice cream
There are a few things that come to mind as quintessentially British summer: Pimms, a maximum of 3 days of actual summer, a rained out Wimbledon championship, and of course strawberries. Well we’ve now had two hot days in a row which may have broken some sort of English record, and with local [...]
