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A recipe: Dust cake, a ‘free’ cocoa brownie

A recipe: Dust cake, a ‘free’ cocoa brownie

Baking without ingredients? I eat pretty much everything and I don’t have a problem with non vegetarian ingredients or gluten, but I do like a challenge. On Instagram I follow a few accounts of bakers and foodies who produce some decent looking dishes which are often gluten, dairy, fat free and so forth. I decided to give such fad trend a go, more to see for myself what can come out of baking without fluffy ingredients. I just looked in…

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Afternoon tea tasting at Piacha, Islington

Afternoon tea tasting at Piacha, Islington

Tea & me I love tea, and I drink at least a cup each day, but despite having a cupboard full of loose leaf blends of many variety (from Mauritian vanilla black tea to the White Duke from Bellocq, from dried garden mint leaves to Twinings patent Lady Grey) I am quite boring when it comes to brewing and follow tradition, picking my favourite Earl Grey 99% of the times. Beautiful, properly brewed big cups of tea that are paired…

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Dessert Bar Tasting Menu at William Curley, Pimlico

Dessert Bar Tasting Menu at William Curley, Pimlico

A few months ago I bought a William Curley dessert bar voucher for @bmcboy who loves chocolate (who doesn’t?). We also bought one for our friend Francois’ birthday so we could go together and spend an afternoon tasting chocolate cakes.  At least this is what I, naively, expected. Having been a fan of Curley’s chocolate for a while, I was interested in the ‘dessert bar’ experience and in my head for some reason I thought it was going to be…

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