So I was meant to do a post today. I had it all planned out. I was going to talk about fair isle knitting and how not to be scared of it. But instead I got carried away with work and I’ve had completely random allergies all day and I just simply forgot. Sorry!
Here’s a picture of a giant strawberry. Just because.
I had a couple of egg whites left over from making a sauce, so I decided to get inventive. It worked, and the cherry bakewell pavlova was what came out. Thank Nick from udellgames.com for the name!
Ingredients:
Biscuit:
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Meringue:
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Topping:
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Method:
Pre-heat oven to gas mark 4 / 350F / 180C (take off 20 if fan assisted).
Biscuits:
While biscuits are baking, Meringue:
When the biscuits are cool, Topping:
Enjoy your Bakewell Pavlova Biscuit!
I’ve been quite silly this week. I’ve not taken any pictures of the things I’ve cooked. I’ve made carrot cake, cookies and a Chinese meal, yet haven’t got anything to show for it. So let that be a lesson to me and anyone else: take pictures of what you make, they come in handy when you have no idea what to blog about.
When I was in secondary school and still doing food technology, I remember making some sort of cheesecake/pie/dessert which involved a fair amount of lemon curd. I also remember it being called Pooh’s Pie, or Pooh’s pudding or something like that, so it must have been something to do with Winnie the Pooh, obviously. I remember making it for my grandparents, and they loved it, as did my family. The bit of paper it was written on was lost long ago, yet I really want to figure out what the recipe was, and I don’t remember it well enough to recreate it.
I’ve messaged some people who have the various Winnie the Pooh recipe books in case it came from one of them, but no luck so far. I’m hoping someone out there can tell me where I can find the recipe, or can give me some more suggestions on where to search.
Not only was it delicious, and so obviously I want to make it again, I also want to make sure that I’m not just dreaming that it happened, or that it wasn’t just a lemon meringue pie or something. I’m pretty sure neither of these things are true, but I want to make sure as I was between 11 and 14 at the time! So if anyone can help me find this lost recipe I will be truly grateful!
Edit: My mum found the recipe! It didn’t have lemon curd in, but did strongly involve lemon. It’s called ‘Pooh’s Summer Pie’. I’ll be doing a blog post on it soon!
It was Hampshire Hog Day this week at Winchester Farmer’s Market so, although this post is usually anything but food, today it’s about food.
The day started well with piglet racing. They were kenekunes so very friendly, and apparently were around 10 months old. I picked number 6 to win. Naturally he came last!
After the racing, we wandered the market and found lots of delicious produce. As it was Hampshire Hog Day I decided to make a meal involving pork with produce bought entirely from the market.
Ingredients (amounts depend on your preferences – you can easily add more for more people). I’ve added who I bought it from at the market:
Method:
I’ve never made a cherry bakewell until this. I’ve eaten plenty of them. Well, plenty of mass produced ones. I was feeling experimental. This tart was made with no recipe and I just kind of made it up as I went along. It worked, very well in fact!
This cherry bakewell isn’t very pretty mainly because I currently only have cake tins and am not particularly prepared for tarts!
Ingredients:
| Pastry: 90g plain flour 45g hard butter Pinch of salt ~20ml cold water |
Tart: 1 egg 25g soft butter 60g caster sugar 25g ground almonds 65g plain flour Pinch of baking powder 1/2tsp almond extract Splash of milk Jam (I used cherry) |
Icing: 150g icing sugar 2tbsp water Glace cherries |
Method:
Pastry:
Tart:
Icing:
Eating healthily can be difficult sometimes. You might want something cakey, or you want a fry-up, or something deep fried. It’s impossible to always completely avoid these things, so why not try making bad food better, while retaining or sometimes even improving the flavours you crave? This Food Friday at Crafterways, I’m going to give you some tips on how to do this.
First, let’s take the traditional fry-up. It usually consists of bacon, sausage, egg, tomato, onion, bread, baked beans, hash browns/chips/some form of potato fried or deep fried, and numerous other additions depending on what you like. Really bad, right? Doesn’t have to be.
There are many more ways of making bad food better. If you have a way that I haven’t listed here, please do let me know!
Look out for my next post on Monday which will be a tutorial on how to make something crafty and fun.