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Oh! I have never heard of such a treat, but doesn’t it just sing of spring? Blood orange butter is a compound of sweet butter flavored with the juice, zest and flesh of blood orange, a dab of honey and a pinch of salt. You can find more of these lovely images and the whole recipe over at The Kitchen Sink which recommends making up a batch of this to spread on biscuits to remind you of sunny days when they no doubt fade!
With Easter fast approaching, it seems like I’ve got chocolate on the brain more so than usual. I couldn’t resist drooling over the website of London chocolatiers Melt. Their shop has a kitchen on site so you can see and smell the chocolates being made!
Specialities include sea salted caramel bon-bons, slabs of chocolate popcorn and raspberry and chocolate lollipops adorned in rose petals. Watch a blissful video of the store creating their chocolates here.
I have a new cook book that I just can’t get enough of. It’s Home Cooking by Rachel Allen published by Collins.
In the short time that I have had the book in my posession I’ve cooked a number of recipes [some more than once] and they’ve all proved to be quite popular. The food is, as the title suggests, home cooking – hearty, simple, comforting and familiar recipes.
The book, quite appropriately, kicks off with a chapter on breakfasts. It certainly makes you want to trade in your usual bowl of Weetabix for something a bit more adventurous and satisfying. From recipes for Crunchy Granola and a perky Fresh Fruit Salad through to American Buttermilk Pancakes and Pan Fried Kippers with Dill Butter there is something for every appetite.
For lunch, the book offers up a tempting variety of soup and salad recipes as well as a few light dishes such as Fish Cakes and Tagliatelle with Smoked Salmon Watercress and Peas. I actually made this pasta dish and it was really tasty and takes no time to prepare.
Then there’s a whole chapter devoted to Sunday lunch with recipes such as Roast Chicken with Stuffing, gravy and sauces [choose from Bread sauce, Tarragon cream sauce, chicken gravy or a mushroom and watercress sauce] a Pecan and Vegetable Loaf for the , if fish takes your fancy there is Smoked Salmon, Leek and Potatoe Pie. As for the vegetable accompaniments there are no less that 16 to choose from. I have cooked the Carrots with nutty, buttered crumbs, and they were delicious.
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How ready steady does this delicious food and photography from La Tartine Gourmande make you for Spring?
A couple of weeks ago Rosie and Ellie, the girls at Salad Club, emailed me their wonderful recipe for carrot and ginger muffins, but being the generous girls that they are, they also gave me an extra fabulous recipe for meatballs with an accompanying Bulgar, Carrot and Halloumi salad to boot!
I’m sharing this recipe with you today as I really do think it would be the perfect meal to knock up over this weekend. With the cold wet weather that is still keeping us all in winter mode, the meatballs will be the ultimate comfort food, whilst the salad with its full-on flavours will give a welcome whisper of the warmer climate that I hope is just around the corner. So I’ll leave you in the capable hands of The Salad Club Girls…
Meatballs most Tender from The Salad Club Girls
These are adapted from the Leon Cookbook and have totally dissolved my fear of making a meatball that bounces under my knife and between my teeth. There’s nothing more off putting than that. It sounds absolutely weird, and I did worry the first time I made these, but adding the milk-soaked pitta really does soften them up. They were lapped up in minutes by the boys at my table and now I can’t stop making them.
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Chocolate Goodness
True Blood
Lorna of ‘Love Food’s’ Meringue Ghosts with a Blood Dip Recipe
Confiserie Sprungli
Small Packages
Mediterranean Salad and Beetroot Cake from the Salad Club Girls!
Rosie Lovell’s Ginger and Chocolate Cookies
Banana and Dark Chocolate Bread from Lily’s Kitchen.
Salad Club Girls Carrot and Ginger Valentine’s Muffins
Autumn Vegetable Lasagne and Book Giveaway!