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Self sufficient lemon, blueberry and almond puddin...

This pudding is like the perfect house guest* (*In my experience they’re often called Alice.) It’s cheerful. It’s calming. It’s adds a little dash of sparkle to the bland grind of a day. And more than anything, it’s self sufficient.  Once you’ve pulled the complimentary components together these puddings just need to sit in a […]

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Blackberry and chocolate panna cottas – Blac...

This is the first of ten posts on possible food pairings for the films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. If a sensuous lily white mound, speckled by with dark vanilla seeds and smothered by a tide of darkness doesn’t make you think of Black Swan, maybe the wings of dark chocolate will […]

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Almond croissant and raspberry puddings

“Almonds are loaded with magnesium which is an essential mineral for growing hair.” (Or so google tells me). Croissants are loaded with butter, which is essential for gilding a happy place. There are many reasons why I made raspberry bread and butter puddings from almond croissants. Chief among them is a bad haircut. It started […]