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Apricots – some ideas for what is possibly my favourite fruit to bake with
Fresh Turmeric and Lemon Curd
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These recipes are bananas! A round-up of unusual banana recipes
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Dark Chocolate Brownies with Medjool Dates and Almond Butter
Seedy Buckwheat Bread (gf)
Fig Leaf Mousse with Fig Leaf Oil and Caramelised Buckwheat
Fig leaf panna cotta

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Managed to steal away some time before work this morning to get some more writing done. Am currently working on an article on substitutions in the kitchen - mastering the art of substitution really does feel like the key to making a delicious meal when your fridge and pantry are particularly bare and also stop you from being a slave to recipes. What is your favourite substitution? Mine is probably that you can make hummus out of any kind of legume (even if you probably should not call it hummus if it’s made without chickpeas) and how tamarind perfectly mimicks the flavour of lime juice in guacamole.

If I am being totally honest, apricots are probably my favourite fruits to experiment with in the kitchen. So as a final hurrah to apricot season (and because I am not yet ready to embrace fall baking), there is a round-up of my favourite apricot recipes on the blog, plus a few words on flavour combinations that work well with apricots (and other stone fruits). Link in profile.

My sister is currently traipsing around Singapore. And she was asking me for tips on where to eat. It’s been too many years since I was there but the one recommendation I had was to try and find an old school cafe to have Kaya Toast (toast with coconut jam, softboiled eggs, soy sauce and white pepper) for breakfast. So delicious and also what inspired these Kaya Toast Lamingtons I posted on the blog quite some time ago.

Plum season is upon us! What is your favourite way with plums? I love this umeboshi plum compote with French toast with miso sugar (recipe is in the blog archives). I also just bought my first prune plums for a Prune Plum and Chinese Five Spice Tarte Tatin.

Being passionate about food must be genetic: found this 600g(!) box of caraway seeds in my parents’ kitchen 😂

When in Paris ... Brussels hasn’t really caught onto the idea of sesame flavoured pastries and desserts, so whenever I am in Paris I make sure I satisfy my cravings. Love the sesame eclairs from both Sadaharu Aoki (pictured here from earlier today) and those from Boulangerie Utopie. The latter also does an excellent tarte au sésame noire which I had when I was here earlier this year.

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December 17, 2018

Melomakarona – Greek Honey and Walnut Cookies

When a mum hides cookies from her children because they are so good she cannot bear to share them, you

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December 25, 2012December 25, 2012

Vanille Kipferl meets Giambelli di Vino

An alternative title to this blog post could have been “Christmas baking 2012: bridging Italian and German Christmas baking traditions”.

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