Triple Raspberry Pavlova
I really need to persuade Ben and David to write more frequently about BBQ beef ribs, the perfect mole sauce and other delicious umami things like that. Any munchmun.ch reader would think we’re trying to give them diabetes. Oh well, here is a pavlova recipe I’ve been working on over the last couple [...]
Custard Cream Biscuits
I can’t remember why I decided to try and make a batch of custard creams. I think I caught sight of the lovely Hope & Greenwood confectionary cookbook on my Amazon recommendations (I haven’t bought it yet if you’d like to send a copy my way) and was overwhelmed with nostalgia for ten-penny [...]
Summer Seafood Stew
Here is a great recipe for a light but flavourful summer stew. It’s based on a classic Spanish recipe called suquet de peix but with a few substitutions to account for our love of mussels, hatred of celery and what was available on the booze shelf. There’s a fair amount of preparation going [...]
Having just harvested this year’s crop of potatoes and eagerly awaiting our slow-growing beetroot and ripening tomatoes, I was particularly interested in this graph published by National Geographic. It shows how, in America, people have come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables and thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared (approximately 93 percent [...]
#1 Fire & Knives
We’ve often mentioned cookbooks and blogs that we love on munchmun.ch but here’s a delicious little magazine that deserves your utmost attention: Fire & Knives Food Quarterly. It’s a beautiful publication I’ve only just recently discovered and I’m pretty excited about it. This ‘new writing for food lovers’ is totally different from [...]
This is the most excited I have been about baking for at least a fortnight…
I can’t recall when I first thought of the idea of cakes in jars, but it may have had something to do with receiving the lovely Meg Rivers catalogue and being introduced to the concept of postal cake. I found myself [...]
We’ve been visiting Ben in San Francisco and, with only one day left in this city of seafood, cakepops and burritos, I thought I’d share with you some of the best foodie discoveries we’ve made.
At the Knead Patisserie – hidden behind Local Mission Eatery – I ate one of the yummiest chocolate [...]
In EXACTLY one month we’ll be heading to San Francisco with the aim of munchmun.ching all that Ben’s fair city has to offer. In the meantime I thought I’d prepare for the trip by baking an all-American classic cake, using my new US cup measures and employing a traditional stateside frosting method (ie plonk on [...]
Gravlax is made with a dry cure: a mixture of salt, sugar and herbs which both preserve and flavour the fish. Here’s a really easy, really quick little recipe that, if prepared in advance, will provide the basis of a luxurious minimum input/maximum yield mid-week dinner.
Ingredients
A side of salmon, halved, or [...]
High up on my long list of things I love sits champagne and exploring. Not far behind you’ll find the English seaside and all food associated with it. Three years ago I discovered a place that combines all of these things. That place is a wooden shack on the edge of an Essex salt marsh [...]