Because I’ve been asked for this recipe and I thought I should try to increase my food blogging (yes, yes, because I’m so good about blogging everything else). What this is, is a very robust, hard to screw up, incidentally-gluten-free* chocolate tart. The pastry shell is based on a 17th-century “pye” recipe and uses only nuts, egg white and a little sugar, which I got from Ann Willan’s Look & Cook Perfect Pies and Tarts
*Incidental, because there are no substitutions made– the recipe has no gluten and none of the usual starch substitutes, eg. potato flour, gluten-free flour, gram flour, etc.
Oh, my updating fail; let me show you it. Close up on the two-stranded necklace made at a class at the Make Lounge. It’s a mix of green and cream with copper fixings. The class was taught by Juju Vail and was fantastic, I learnt a lot and I look forward to taking further classes [...]
March 21, 2007 – 10:56 pm
Look! Socks! Plain and simple: toe up, short row heel and knitted in Rowan 4 ply. I actually started them back when I moved to London but there was a bit of sulking and ignoring (noticing a pattern here?) when I managed to cast off too tightly on one. But my co-blogger (the silent one [...]
March 19, 2007 – 12:19 pm
Woe, I had to frog what I’d done on the top down cardi because I’d screwed up the maths on the conversion from Aran weight to DK and not even the magic of top down raglan could save me. After sulking for a few days, I frogged it and rewound the skein. I plan to [...]
September 4, 2006 – 2:06 pm
It all went silent on my end due to packing (the great move to London is in t-minus 20 days and I am but halfway through the packing, urgh) and a sudden (although temporary) return to the world of Barwenching. Oh local pub, with your very very very old regulars that spend their lives drinking [...]
August 8, 2006 – 12:41 pm
Cooking, with baking in particular, is my kryptonite. Leave me to my own devices and I will bake until the cows come home because as much as I enjoy cooking in general, there’s just something about baking that really scratches an itch. This weekend I managed to get my sticky paws onto a copy of [...]
