Daring Bakers: Croquembouche

The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. The recipes I used for the choux buns and the pastry cream were from the BBC good food [...]

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Chocolate Bread and Barbeque

It’s been a really great weekend, the weather was lovely and I managed to get quite a bit done in the vegetable patch. We also had the first barbeque of the year in the garden (including giant sirloin steaks from butchers extraordinaire …  Orr’s of Holywood). Unfortunately its Monday now and I’m back at work [...]

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Posted on May 3, 2010 at 11:57 pm by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Fast food …choc and vanilla cheesecakes

Not all convenience food is bad. Gü desserts are quality products. We ate one of these each with a couple of scoops of Cloon Farm goats milk ice cream.

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Posted on January 19, 2010 at 10:29 pm by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Chocolate Covered Salted Caramels

This made up one component of my Christmas chocolate gift bags.  I used Dan Lepard’s recipe to make a soft caramel sauce.  I tempered 72% dark chocolate (green and blacks cooking grade) using a microwave and my fabulously useful  ikea cooking thermometer a bargain at £7 and good for the Christmas turkey too. The tempering [...]

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Posted on January 17, 2010 at 2:15 pm by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Well… into the brave new world

So having negotiated a crash course in WordPress and web hosting we are up and running…busy time here with the first ultrasonic sight of our second baby tomorrow and Mrs W’s big 30th birthday surprise this weekend (if the snow lets up and allows us to get there!). Will try to  get some photos up [...]

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Posted on January 6, 2010 at 1:45 am by Marv Woodhouse · Permalink · Leave a comment
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