Archive for the 'dairy' Category

Chocolate Ricotta cheesecake

This is not the cheesecake I learnt to bake at my mother’s knee.  That cheesecake is a light and fluffy, lemonscented confection.  This cheesecake is heavier, richer, chocolatey-er, and easier to bake.  I have been making it a lot at the deli recently and as it has been so well received we keep baking it.  [...]

…make your own cream cheese

Cream cheese, like Ricotta is a dead easy thing to make. I generally make my own yoghurt anyway, especially if I have a surplus of milk, and this cream cheese was made with a surplus of yoghurt.

Line a sieve or perforated container with a piece of muslin.
Mix the juice of 1 large lemon into 500ml [...]

Buttermilk and Orange Blossom Pancakes

Sift together

1 cup of organic plain (all purpose or cake) flour
1 T of vanilla caster sugar
1teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar

Drop into the centre

One large organic egg

With a wooden spoon slowly beat in

1 1/4 cups (185mls) of buttermilk
30g of butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon of orange blossom water

Heat your griddle pan and cook [...]

Banana lassi sunshine

OMG! The sun is shining! Not only is it shining today, it shone yesterday and the day before too, I have the sunburn to prove it. This morning it is streaming in through my kitchen window. ( Oops. My very dirty kitchen window. Need to clean that. I’ll put it on the list of things [...]