There are admittedly days when I feel like kneading a bread dough for 10, 20, 30 minutes. The rhythm motion of pushing and stretching the soft yeast-scented dough is as therapeutic an activity as it gets for me. However, if you present me with the alternative of letting a machine do it in five minutes whilst I make myself a cup of coffee…Maybe that’s even more therapeutic. And since I’ve acquired Heston, my beloved stand mixer, I’ve made more bread and rolls and buns.
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Month August 2017
White Chocolate & Cardamom Mousse Cake
Urgh. I’ve been on an energy-sapping holiday in Italy. The combination of the scorching sun and unlimited food is putting me in a constant state of lethargy. Everything’s so much effort: stairs, cooking, even lifting fingers to type. Maybe my muscles are finding it difficult to move around the fat that have recently surrounded them… So here’s an old recipe back from culinary school.
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