Gourmet Therapy

Preparation: 25 minutes Cooking time: 3 minutes to make the custard cream or 33 minutes if you haven’t pre-made the pastry. For this recipe, the only cooking time involved will be to prepare the custard cream, and blind bake the pastry (see recipe) in your oven. The rest is all preparation time as the strawberries [...]

Epiphany on January 6 celebrates the visit of the Three Wise Men to the infant Jesus. But more importantly, in France it’s the day we eat the “Galette des Rois“, the “frangipane” (almond custard style filling) filled cake! Here’s an easy recipe which I have fine tuned, adjusted and enhanced for my family and friends… [...]

Apple Crumbles are easy and quick to make. It is hard to go wrong really with such an easy recipe. The secret is in the ingredients and the quantities you use. What don’t you have a go!

  Ingredients: 250g Whole Fresh cherries – Pitted 150g caster sugar   Preparation: Place a medium size plate in the fridge. Put all of the pitted cherries in a medium size saucepan, and add all of the sugar. Turn heat on high and stir until the mixture starts boiling. When the liquid starts boiling, reduce [...]

This rice pudding is super easy to make and is excellent served for breakfast, afternoon tea or dessert

  Ingredients: 120 g butter 150g caster sugar 2 eggs 190g plain flour 2 table spoons good quality cocoa powder 125ml milk 100g cooking chocolate 2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon icing sugar 1 – 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries 300 ml double cream     Preparation: Preheat the oven [...]

Ingredients: 5 egg whites 120 g caster sugar 40 g Dutch cocoa mixed with 150 g icing sugar 200 g dark cooking chocolate, broken into small pieces 200 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces 4 extra egg whites 100 g extra caster sugar Extra icing sugar for dusting Extra cocoa powder for dusting Chocolate curls [...]