My collection of food photography and recipes. Attention: sugar high content!
It’s only natural to react with a bit of suspicion when we come across a recipe as strange as no-knead bread. Something so simple and easy sure feels like cutting corners and it’s hard to believe that proper delicious bread can really come out of there. But even to my mum’s disbelief, it does. Dense, tasty, crusty, yummy bread.
After two weeks gorging on delicious New York pizza, I came home to find out that the Daring Baker’s Challenge for October is… Pizza! How appropriate!
I’ve been meaning to do my own pizza dough for ages, finally I’d have a chance to try it.And the challenge was very clear, we had to toss it in the air like a real professional. I was so excited I gathered some friends around and called it a pizza party.
A savoury challenge for the August Daring Bakers challenge, oh my! I just had to get some friends around and call it a party! And since it’s a party, why not go a bit over the top and do a few more dips as well? So here are the results: Lavash crackers with a intercontinental dip trio, with a bit of mexican, a pinch of indian, a whiff of mediterranean. Sounds a bit posh, doesn’t it?
I’m afraid this isn’t quite a new recipe. When my friend Cat asked me for a Passion Fruit Mousse, I remembered that the recipe for the Creamy Lime Mousse seemed to work with any acidic fruit, and decided to give it a go.
The first time I tasted Greek Yogurt, I fell in love with the stuff. So creamy, dense and bitter, it was way better than the regular stuff! Soon I realised that if I added some walnuts and drizzled it with honey, I had the perfect instant dessert, the most sophisticated quick-fix ever. (It’s a shame that, unlike in London, it’s not available in most supermarkets in Lisbon, and I have to go to the shopping centre I hate the most just to get it.)
Let’s go for something healthier today, shall we? Pears are now in season, and this fresh and light desert is perfect to make good use of them.
The night before this month’s challenge was posted, I dreamed it was going to be all about profiteroles. I was pleasantly surprised when I woke up the next morning and realised it was indeed a choux pastry recipe.
©2007 Patrícia Furtado
