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Amaretti Rocky Road (aka Strada Rocciosa)

Posted by KitchenGeek on Friday 17th Feb, 2012

While I’m not actually a huge fan of straight chocolate, I have a real thing for chocolate with stuff in it. Dairy Milk I could take or leave, but I adore Nestle Crunch – despite the fact it’s just dairy milk with a few rice crispies in it.

Which means that I love Rocky Road.

The problem is that my wife hates marshmallows and my best friend suffers from Coeliac’s. Not a great start for a dish that’s largely marshmallows and biscuits.

Then Graze.com sent me inspiration in the form of a little punnet Hazelnut Espresso – a mix of cappuccino chocolate, mini amaretti biscuits, dates and hazelnuts. Could that make rocky road…? Well, yes. Read the rest of this entry »

Shooter’s Sandwich

Posted by KitchenGeek on Friday 8th Oct, 2010

It’s all been a bit mad round here recently, what with selling my grandparent’s house and trying to work out why the electricity in my own kitchen keeps shutting down half way through cooking things, but here’s another fantastically simple one that’s kept me entertained – the Shooter’s Sandwich.

But first, a word of warning. This isn’t a sandwich you can knock up at 12.15 to eat at 12.20. It’ll take you half an hour to prepare and then you’ve got to leave it until the following lunchtime. It’ll also take a nice big bite out of your food budget for the week.

On the flip side, there’s no way you’ll eat it on your own in one sitting. Even for me, a world famous fat bastard, there are several sittings here – probably with an accomplice.

Shooter's Sandiwich, by Matt Perdeaux, under Creative Commons


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Garlic & Butternut Squash Soup

Posted by KitchenGeek on Saturday 23rd Jan, 2010

Butternut Squash Soup, by mhaithaca, under Creative Commons

Butternut Squash Soup, by mhaithaca, under Creative Commons

Weekends follow a depressingly boring rhythm at the moment… Wake up late; have breakfast at a supermarket cafe on the way to the old house (long story); get there some time after lunch; work until six; and then eat a kebab on the way home.

So, I hatched a plan. Get down there early and use the wonderful kitchen to make a healthy lunch. Butternut squash was obviously the answer… Read the rest of this entry »

Dulce de Leche Brownies

Posted by KitchenGeek on Sunday 26th Jul, 2009

Dulce de Leche brownies, by jessicafm, under Creative Commons

Dulce de Leche brownies, by jessicafm, under Creative Commons

There are times when I wonder what the hell I’m thinking. Deciding to cook a cake for the first time would be one of those times. Choosing to make it brownies would make it worse. You can guess that using a Portuguese recipe didn’t convince me it was any more sane an idea.

Still, if I can make it work, I’m guessing anyone can… Read the rest of this entry »

The not-really-Cuban, Cuban Sandwich

Posted by KitchenGeek on Tuesday 21st Apr, 2009

rdpeyton's version of a Cuban Sandich, under Creative Commons

rdpeyton's version of a Cuban Sandich, under Creative Commons

There is a thing called a Cuban sandwich. It’s a delicacy that involves Cuban bread, pig, pickles and seven kinds of wonderful. The problem is that you can’t get it in the UK. We don’t have the bread. The pickles are somehow different and the cheese is just simply not the same.

So what we have left is a sandwich that’s about as Cuban as I am. Thankfully, however, it’s made from things that are available in the UK. Just don’t feed it to a Cuban. They’ll probably cry. Read the rest of this entry »

Churros

Posted by KitchenGeek on Wednesday 15th Apr, 2009

Churros by Gret@Lorenz

Image by Gret@Lorenz under Creative Commons

Think of Churros as being donuts/doughnuts that have been extruded into wonderfully thing and crispy lengths instead of being dumped into the fat as a ball. It’s like comparing a french fry to a deep fried baking potato.

They’re native to most of the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world (plus Morocco), but to me they’re pure Cuba… Read the rest of this entry »