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The Pastry Chef At Home
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Simple dessert recipes anyone can make. Pretty(ish) photos to encourage you. Food + travel shenanigans. Lipsmacking recommendations. Food + restaurant flashbacks.
Recent Posts
Easy Lemon Mousse (aka The Transformation of Lemon Curd)
I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like mousse. Really. Just mention chocolate mousse and people’s eyes light up like mmm, I want to go to there. It’s one of those desserts that was like, The Thing to order if you ate out at a fancy restauran...
Lemon Curd : Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy *
Somehow I've convinced myself that living in England temporarily is reason enough to slather homemade lemon curd on absolutely everything I've eaten for the past 3 days. Oh, it's obscene. If you’ve never ...
The Pastry Chef Wants Her Full English Breakfast Please.
The Pastry Chef is jetting off to London! For the month of December, I will be blogging from sunny, tropical England - aka the former home of Posh and Becks. If you've read my blog before you'll recall that once upon a t...
Pie (or Tart) Crust 4 Ways: A Tutorial
9 out of 10 people would rather visit their dentist than make pie crust. Okay, I made that up, but seriously, why are people so afraid of pie crust? Is it the daunting rolling process? The fear of burnt crust edges? The agony of biting into a slice...
Chocolate Body Paint And Other Inexplicable Dessert Items
I feel cranky today. Why? Well, my local supermarket sells such exotic items as Strawberry Marshmallow Fluff and Gummy Pizza, yet never, ever has pistachios in stock. I'm attempting (and failing) to cut back on my expensive/low quality St...
Concord Grape Granita (is fashionably late)
Last month I tasted my first Concord grape. For a person who has willingly eaten brains, alligator, and turtle, this is pretty absurd. Concord grapes are those mysterious purple/blue/black-ish grapes with a sweet candy-like flavor and intoxicatin...

