This total flaky delicious rough puff pastry is easier than you think. Pair it with baked ricotta and sweet tomatoes and you have the Perfect Flaky pastry and ricotta slice. You must try this! It looks completely delicious doesn’t it? This really is a perfect flaky pastry and ricotta slice. Well it actually is as…
Pies and Tarts
Tortilla Chicken Lasagne
This Tortilla Chicken Lasagne / Pie looks good doesn’t it? It is or rather was. I am sure one of these has been made somewhere sometime, but I got the idea from Skater. I asked him what he wanted for dinner. He said Tortillas ..Oh no wait, maybe pie. Can I have a Tortilla Pie? Of…
Chicken, Spinach & Feta Pie
It’s pie time. Chicken Spinach and Feta Pie to be exact As if it’s ever not pie time…. Well in my house anyway, no matter the weather a pie is always welcome. This pie is the ants pants. It has it all. Vegetables first and foremost (not that anyone around here noticed it was green),…
Chicken, Spinach Feta Pie
Chicken Spinach Feta Pie. Isn’t she a beauty?. This spectacular pie will impress everyone. It’s pie time. Chicken Spinach Feta Pie to be exact As if it’s ever not pie time…. Well in my house anyway, no matter the weather a pie is always welcome. This pie is the ants pants. It has it all….
Lemon Curd Mascarpone Tart made with Microwave Lemon Curd
This totally delicious Lemon Curd Mascarpone Tart came about when I had a few egg yolks left over from a cake. It’s made with thick creamy Mascarpone and lemon Curd. This Lemon Curd is from a recipe I shared a while ago made in the Microwave. It really is a game changer in the Lemon…
Chocolate Tart made with cake crumbs
I am back and feeling superior. Yes I am using left overs to bake something again. Come on……. work with me . Surely you have some chocolate cake crumbs at your house? A couple of weeks ago I made a red Velvet tart with the left over crumbs from a cake . This week I’m…
Red Velvet Tart using cake crumbs
Introducing: The Red Velvet Tart made from leftover crumbs. Yes, I said Red Velvet Tart. In a house with lots of cake making and carving there are also a lot of cake crumbs. It takes so much time and effort to make cakes bigger than the average Grey Nomads’ camper-van, so I wanted to…
Custard Tart with Date and Cookie Crust
Easy Custard Tart with Date and cookie crust is the lushest tart you are likely to eat with an easy crumb crust. It is THE most luxurious, creamy delicious tart you could ever imagine. Date Custard Tart with Cookie Crust This is an easy Custard Tart with Date and a cookie crust because I know…
Easy Hot Water Crust for Pies
How to make Hot Water Crust for Pies It’s cold in the Southern Hemisphere, forgive us if this recipe is not suitable for your current balmy summer evenings, somewhere else. It maybe one to keep for colder times. Although there is no end of pasta at my house (Skaters choice/ teenager) a pie is always…
Chocolate Frangipane Tart, Banana and Salted Caramel
This has an amazing flavour. Chocolate Frangipane tart with banana and caramel will have you in love Chocolate Frangipane Tart with Banana and Salted Caramel I made this tart when I was going to lunch at a friends house. I asked what kind of dessert they would like and they said chocolate so, this was my…
Raspberry Mascarpone Tart Cointreau Raspberry Ice & Lake Toba
The other day it appeared like a vision, the Raspberry Mascarpone tart with Cointreau Raspberry Ice. It was far more pleasant than the vision I had when I thought my sister was going to die in Sumatra. We were on Samosir Island in the middle of Lake Toba, the biggest lake in Indonesia and the largest…
Chocolate Hazelnut Tart, Semifreddo and Love
Chocolate Hazelnut Tart with Semifreddo Love. Love is a bit of an elusive thing for me. I can say I love chocolate and oh yeah, strangely peas…. but unfortunately I can’t say I am in love with somebody romantically. I do experience love everyday but I am in a love. My love is all consuming in a caring…
Chocolate Ricotta Tart & Sumatra
Chocolate Ricotta Tart My sister and I were on the waterfront in a small town named Parapat, in Sumatra Indonesia, the sixth largest Island in the world . Even with a population of 50 million people, buses were barely adequate and the bone-crunching all stops ride from Pematangsiantar, a sliding 2 hours away, had left us…
Yoghurt Tart with Pear and Passionfruit & Vanuatu
A Yoghurt Tart that’s a bit like a cheesecake. Its not too sweet and goes perfectly with one of my favourite fruits, passionfruit. After my sister was chased across the airfield by a cow in Vanuatu she had to load her wheeley bag into a small boat captained by a local man who was used…
Lemon Meringue Tart : Life’s bittersweet
Lemon Meringue Tart a delicious bittersweet dessert with life to go with it…. There’s something about the bittersweet nature of this tart that is both comforting and shocking at the same time. It’s what makes it a familiar favourite. I have a distinctive feel for the bittersweet right now. After 13 years, our school life…
Portuguese Custard Tarts #cheats
This is a quick Cheats version of a Portuguese Custard tart…. and well worth the effort. Cheats Portuguese Custard Tarts. Yes we all love them….but do we really want to be tempted with them at home?…..hell yeah. These are definitely the cheats custard tarts but they are all the same , straight out of the oven, a…