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Hm. Have you tried the Jaffa cake? ( disappoint in cake terms, but might work for you as a biscuit.
I recently discovered the concept of rolling pins with designs on them. I am not sure if this is because I live in my cave or what. I have desire to buy them and make beautiful looking but plain biscuits, or pipe details over the design. But the choice is too great, so I will think about it forever instead.![]()
Haha, I always end upp looking longingly at the macroon sheets in the kitchen stuff store.What don't you like about cookies.......I am sure one of us can think of something you would like.
My favourite biscuit I made was called passion fruit melt. It was so nice that I only made it once . Temptation too good. Most things I make I can resist, but these were passion fruity AND melty. I also almost never make oatlace biscuits, macaroons or Florentines. I do have a macaroon book I read with coffee. Its seventy percent as satisfying, which when you consider how good a macaroon is, is pretty incredible compromise.
I got a book by one of my favourite food writers this week, which means next week I might just eat yoghurt and broth, but I will feel as if I ate banquets.. I am weird in that I 'read' meals. Whereas others get hungry reading food books.
Yes, Jaffa cakes are good and oatmeal cookies are good sometimes.
I also like gingerbread cookies with blue cheese and fig jam or pear.![]()
I don't know exactly what it is I don't like about cookies. They're always a little disappointing somehow. Often too crumbly, but I also hate the chewy center a lot of chocolate chip cookies often have, too greasy, too sweet, too thick. Cookies just don't work for me.


MmmmMMMMmmmmmmmm! Finner!
I like your new spell checker, she's funny![]()
I don't know what ginger nuts are, but definitely not lebkuchen. They're pepparkakor in Swedish, thin and crisp Christmas cookies, although we have them at other times too, to have with cheese.Gingerbread cookies like lebkuchen, or like 'ginger nut'? Or something else? I need to imagine it now....![]()
I think you might like the recipe I linked then. If not, just use them in crumble over some apples fruit.
I love pepparkakor with blue cheese and I like figs stuffed with blue cheese, si I'll try your combination.
From this data I would deduce that if you purchased cookies at the store, perhaps J would enjoy the cookies and you could eat the cardboard box they came in.![]()
That looks so good. I think G is making his sour dough into rolls today.
I have a sweet tooth and we both said today was a pudding day. My new book has a recipe for chocolate lime fondants that sounds good....properly chocolatey , with a dash of green goodness..
We started to the day with a delicious new black tea, with coconut and cornflowers and some other stuff. I love coconut black tea ( in truth the coconut overwhelmed the other flavours in this blend). And we had smoked mackerel. Its the kind of day where warm food, warm drinks and strong flavours help keep the grey, british insidious dampness at bay.
Rarely, when I make fruit tarts, like passion fruit or citrus, I will bake the pate sucre case , cool it, then line the shell with a very dark, high cocoa content chocolate so its very thinly coated with this not sweet dark only barely there layer. ( I use a silicone pastry brush for this) THEN put in the filling.
While I HATE extraneous chocolate, I find this dark layer can help if you want to Add dept and darkness and de sweeten the whole thing a little. It can also look really good cut.
Anyway, chocolate limes are a popular old fashioned sweet, so I guess that's where the author got the idea.. And I know I like the combination. Citrus flavours are among my favourite.
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I was torn between duck and tartiflette tonight, but duck wins. We both need meat.

Smoke duck , smoke duck, smoke duck!!!! I request it too.
We keep meaning to jig up some kind of Heath Robinson smoker here, but never get around to it.

My brain has lately been requesting that I smoke a duck![]()
I suppose now you'll tell me that you refuse to believe all the documented evidence behind the Surgeon General's warning against smoking ducks, right?


I knew you would be the one to bite that particular hook![]()
