When it starts to warm up, and spring is in full swing, we dine alfresco. Our tiny house doesn’t have a dining room, and our “table for two” is never large enough for the number of people eating on any given day. So we take it outside. Eating outside is wonderful but has some drawbacks; like keeping hot things hot. This is why I shift my cooking to things that are best served at ambient […]
Let me get something off my chest; I have a problem with layer cakes that are 3 inches of cake for every 1/4″ of icing. My ideal is {in equal measure} cake, icing, cake, icing ..and so on and so forth until you run out of both. I want layers upon layers that are none too dry or too sweet. It makes it difficult to have perfect sides, and 30 second videos of the perfect […]
This cake is actually named “chocolate nemesis”. It is a wonderful invention of the brilliant ladies at River Cafe in London; and it is simply spectacular. I call it gateau noir; because, well, it makes me smile. Gateau noir is the name we gave a suitor {not mine} of a girlfriend; whom in my retelling of the 30 year old story, lovingly prepared gateau noir for her in the hope she would be his steady. […]
