Recently there has been an explosion of activity within the Shire and I’m happy to see it, we’ve been quiet for a long time. The only problem comes when people say things like ‘ooo, you cook, share your recipes’. It’s not a problem with copyright, it’s notoriously hard to copyright a recipe – for me, […]
The look of the blog has changed, this is mostly because the WordPress issue a while back nuked my settings. Thank you so much to Dave and Kelly who have put up with me the last few days. It takes me a bit to pick up these things and this new blog template has a […]
I must admit, I only gave this recipe a passing glance before I eviscerated it completely. I had two reasons for doing this, I didn’t have the budget to use the wine it wanted and I had limited pans available because of the hall.
The not-daughter turns 21 tomorrow, it blows the mind – so I’ve been pondering options for this. Recently, the kid decided to go vegetarian – not an easily workable lacto-ovo or even a pescatarian, nope, not my girl, she decided to go vegan.
So I’m sitting here trying to decide if I should just buy […]
Real life has a way of derailing all your plans and my goals for this website went a little sideways this spring. Things are back to normal now so I’ll be posting a little more regularly.
1 lb (454g) Butter
4 oz (113g) confectioners sugar
1 lb (454g) pastry cream
Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually add the pastry cream, mixing until fully incorporated. A chef friend of our acquaintance tells us that he uses a mix/boxed pastry cream (read vanilla pudding).
When made from true […]
