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Caramelised nut tart

So, Those little cans of pasta shapes are awful. But they do now sell the pasta separately! And This looks much more appetising to me than the orange goo from the cans

#chorizo #carbonara #thomas the tank engine #pasta

An attempt at making a Red Velvet cake Lego Brick. So, the lessons learned from this are:

Red velvet cake is not as hard as you might think. It is hard to make it as red as you see it in shops though, so use a LOT of colouring

Any form of butter icing needs to be cold. As does the cake. And I mean chilled. Not room temp, frankly you could do with freeing the cake and chilling the frosting.

and adding fondant to the top, again have the whole thing cold. The ridges, bumps and non perfect edges are nearly all a result of the frosting underneath not being solid and set.

Finally, you waste a lot of cake making this sort of thing. Flattening the edges and removing all of the "crusts" wastes a lot of material, but without this the insides are not consistent. For best results, make the cakes huge and trim.

#lego #red velevet cake #cake decorating

I finally used the chocolate mouse to fill a cake. the cake was still a little warm so it melted the mouse a little. Which just added to the gooeyness.

#mousecake

I stumbled upon a recipe for chocolate mouse made with nothing but chocolate and water, it makes the stiffest and most decadent chocolate mouse from nothing but 3/4 of warm water and 240g of chocolate. The recipe is by molecular gastronomic genius Herge This.

#chocolate mouse #molecular gastronomy #chocolate

My mother have me a Lekue Silicon bread maker kit, it is a single bowl which you weigh everything into, mix it in the bowl and then prove and bake it straight in the bowl. I gave it a go with a Brioche recipe, it worked pretty well.

#lekue #brioche #bread

This started out as a plan for a Siege waffle. Thats a waffle with a Banana trebuchet that fires hot caramel. This failed, on the basis that the Banana's refused to co-operate and stand up. But you know, in the end this just made for a big pile of tasty banana caramel waffles.

#waffles #caramel #banana

Chicken and Chorizo, Marinated on skewers and grilled, then with a Cumin, Coriander and Cardamon sauce with home grown chills.

#curry #chorizo

Belgian buns, although I am struggling to find a decent recipe for a Belgian Bun that isn't a Chelsea Bun recipe.

#Belgian Bun #chelsea buns #baking

Banana and Sultana muffins. Well cupcakes at best, turns out I don't have any silicone muffin cases! Amateur mistake.

#cupcakes #banana muffin

Apple and Rhubarb crumble, I have added some Oats, Pecans and finely chopped crazily nuts to the crumble to add a little texture to the crumble.

Low calorie pancakes? Banana and bacon pancakes with maple syrup, from the Hairy Dieters cookbook. Im not 100% sure about bacon and banana, but, for 400 calories all in, I can live with it.

#pancakes #breakfast #diet

Because pre-packed ham is so expensive, I have taken to roasting chunks of Gammon to use for sandwiches and salads. At £3 a kilo is much cheaper than packed stuff, pop a few cloves in and a dollop of honey, roast for 2 hours and refrigerate! Its a pain to slice anywhere near as thin as packed ham, but hey thats not such a bad thing for good sandwiches.

#gammon roast Ham

the coolest ice cubes ever. With the possible exception of the spherical Death Star ice cubes. And I accept that none of these are Cubes.

#lego #ice cube

Breakfast for 12? No problems! Sadly you can't fit sausages into griddle pan in the same way as bacon. There is a finite amount of sausage you can fit, unlike Bacon.

#breakfast #fryup

Whoever said "Don't play with your food" clearly never considered that your cookies might be dinosaurs.

#shortbread #dinosaur #cookies

I am starting to run out of space for my cookbooks.

#cookbooks #cooking

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