February 2012
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Short and Tweet Challenge 17: Dan Lepard's...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for meringues in various guises. Eg pg 445 (plain, Double chocolate or Lemon sherbert) to be served plain or teamed with suitable available preserves (eg, chunky marmalade as a good contrast to the chocolate meringue shells); Apricot meringue tart pg 451; sunshine in a jar with the easy lemon curd (pg 342) and eating...
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Short and Tweet Challenge: March 2012 Schedule
March 2012 schedule for the #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet. (Read about #shortandtweet challenge and its conditions.)
The dates are those by which I’d like to receive links or photographs: please tweet these @foodcraftspace or @evidencematters using the hashtag #shortandtweet or leave links in the comments for the appropriate challenge announcement post....
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Short and Tweet Challenge 16: Light Cream Cheese...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for light cream cheese pastry as a pie topping for: Chicken and mushroom pies, pg 488; Shin of beef, chorizo and pinto bean pies, pg 489; Pork and parsnip pies, pg 491; Leek, smoked haddock and Lancashire cheese pies, pg 491; or Broccoli, Stilton and potato pies, pg 492. The opening photograph is from @Misky of Misk...
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Short and Tweet Challenge 15: Crêpes, Scotch...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Crêpe Suzette Tour d’Argent pg 280; Betsy’s Scotch pancakes pg 279; or the Beer batter for fish that Dan details pg 285 (with a helpful suggestion to make onion rings from any leftover batter: “frozen ones on sale at the supermarket are just so dismal”). The opening photograph is...
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Short and Tweet Challenge 14: Lentil-stuffed...
This week’s #shortandtweet challenge from Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet was for Lentil-stuffed flatbreads pg 73; Superwraps pg 72 or North-South cornbread pg 53. [I’ve opened with @north_19’s photograph of her cornbread as it seems particularly comforting in the present weather and I’m feeling a trifle nesh and in need of even vicarious comfort.]
Although she name-checks...