Rice pudding is a tetchy subject to bring up when discussing food with friends, opinions are stubborn and often extreme in nature. People either love rice pudding or they hate it, it needs to be made using ___ type of rice, cream versus milk, add-ins versus an unadorned pudding… the list is long and paved…
Category: Dessert
Christmas Baking
Dark and spicy gingerbread cake. Gingerbread cookies with lime royal icing. And something quiet and nostalgic to perfect the mood… Loreena McKennitt – In Praise of Christmas
Chocolate Raspberry and Blackberry Pavlova
(Taken by Ian Linkletter) Springtime in Vancouver is like a technicolour LSD freak-out kaleidoscope on hyperspeed; that simile might seem hyperbolic but I’m surrounded by cherry trees in perpetual bloom, magenta and tea rose pink lining the sky and the street all over Kitsilano. The grass is neon electrica green because of the constant rain…
Valentine Ice Cream
This ice cream comes from Nigella Lawson’s original recipe for No Churn Pomegranate Ice Cream, an absolutely sublime ice cream making method that involves cream being whipped, frozen, and little else. Instead of making a custard with eggs you combine whipped cream with a sweetened citrus berry purée and freeze for at least three hours, entirely…
Brownies/Blueberries/Belly
These brownies are intense (I mean, intense) because they are all cocoa and no melting chocolate. I wouldn’t call them bitter, even bitter sweet, but they do have a definite edge that most other brownie recipes seem to lack. A single layer of frozen blueberries sandwiched between two great walls of almost-black chocolate provides you…