Okay, I’ve finally succumbed to the dark side.  I have signed up for facebook, bowing not to peer pressure, but to TDPS (teenage daughter pressure syndrome).  And you’re right.  My daughter is not yet  a teenager, but she is practising hard, and there is nothing more demoralising for someone barely 36 years young (okay 36 [...]

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For the sponge (you can skip this bit and use Ladie’s fingers or Boudoir biscuits instead)
In a food processor put:

125g butter
125g caster sugar
2 large free range eggs
125g selfraising flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla sugar

Process until it comes together then add:

2-3 Tablespoons of milk and pulse until smooth.

Pour the batter into a buttered and floured square tin and [...]

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My oldest and best friend, Dani, has a t-shirt that says:  ’Life’s too short not to be Italian’.  She is not, but she speaks it and looks it.  Lucky her.  I neither speak Italian, look Italian, or am Italian, but sometimes I think I should have been, if only for the food.
What I love about [...]

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I am fairly certain I have posted the recipe for choux pastry before, but when my blog went down I lost all the tags and links.  Being the highly organised person that I am I have only redone about six weeks worth so find it easier to repost a choux pastry recipe at this point.
Preheat [...]

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