Tag: sauce

26Apr

Banana split with brigadeiro fudge sauce

Things I am loving at the moment: I no longer listen to the radio. Some may think this is a bad thing but in my car I have a very narrow range of stations, mainly consisting of songs that are on the chart playing on a very annoying loop. I downloaded an app called Castbox and have started to explore the world of podcasts. My absolutely favourites are The High Low and Dear Sugar Radio. I can’t get enough of Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond. I want to go out and have a beer with them. Weekends without my phone. It actually died and I didn’t even try to charge it. I forgot about it and it was all good. Re-watching old films that I was too young to understand when I watched it first time around: As Good As it Gets, Donnie Darko and Good Will Hunting eBay. I am planning my sister’s hen do whilst on my night shifts. I am going for a mermaid theme. All the glitter and streamers arrived on time and on point. Condensed milk. I’ve decided that ganache is well over rated as a sauce and that brigadeiro sauce should take the crown.
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24Nov

One ingredient apple caramel sauce

When it comes to food I am sometimes like the spoiled rich girl that has a walk-in closet full of clothes but feels she has nothing to wear. Some mornings I will open my cupboards over and over, waiting for brownies to magically appear, when I should be cooking all the eggs and porridge oats I have bought for the week, as an encouragement to have full, healthy breakfasts. I needed to accessorise my porridge with a new topping, and finding out that you can turn pressed apple juice into caramel was the answer. One ingredient apple caramel sauce 500ml of pressed apple juice (not from concentrate) 1. Add juice to a pan and heat it until the mixture has halved in volume and leave it to reach a rolling boil. Leave it to boil for 4 minutes.  Half a litre of juice you’ll leave with enough apple caramel to sprinkle over your porridge for a whole week. No need to add any sugar, it is perfectly tangy and sweet on its own. Add to your porridge with a sprinkle of nutmeg, berries and pumpkins seeds. It also tastes great with gin. But leave that one for dinner time.
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06Jun

Easy roasted tomato sauce

I recently heard a radio interview with Diana Henry, an irish food writer (you can listen to the interview here). Catching her interview on my way to work was one of those happy coincidences, and I actually wished my work commute was longer so that I could have listened to it all. She talked very frankly about how her love of food started with good irish food and how that love flourished when she lived in London and Paris. She was very frank and humble about constantly learning about new foods and trends as a food writer and I identified with so many of her views. Especially when she talked about the fetishisation of certain food, a word that I will be using very often from now on. A trend she says she doesn’t understand. And neither do I. Example in point: avocado on toast. Two years ago no one was doing it, now everyone is.  So I stay away from avocado. I was never big on it and I would feel like a huge hypocrite if I started jumping on the bandwagon. Food, just like fashion, should be about knowing what suits you rather than throwing all the trends
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11Jun

Cheese bread and Chimichurri sauce

Today we continuing with our special posts for the World Cup. This recipe is a true Brazilian tradition, we call it pão de queijo which literally translates to cheese bread. It doesn’t matter where you come from we guarantee you’ll love this snack. Snacks are definitely an essential part of our culture as they are always popular for the mid afternoon munchies or just to accompany a cold beer at the end of the day. Pão de queijo is one of our essential snacks and it’s has a special place in Brazilian hearts, almost as much as football. And amazingly these cheese breads are gluten free! That’s right, they are made with cassava flour which is a root vegetable, it looks like a white potato with a thick brown skin. Although cassava that originates from South America it has been exported to Africa and Asia therefore you will find it in dishes from different cultures. It is this special flour that gives these little rolls its texture: crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside. The chimichurri dip however is not a Brazilian recipe but it complements the cheese bread so well. Many people also add butter or even berry jams to it but they
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