Cocoa Pasta – Experimental Recipe No.1

Paul and I went Christmas shopping at the weekend to our local shopping “mall”. We figured it would be sensible to go early and avoid large crowds but we forgot that there’s one thing that malls attract at any time of the year and that’s large crowds.  No matter. We had lunch at Yo! Sushi, [...]

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Healthy Chocolate Truffles?

To make chocolate healthy pretty much means to  lose what we love most about it: cream, full fat milk, sugar.  What this loosely translates as is chocolate in its most natural form: pods, nibs, cocoa butter, unprocessed cocoa. However, I am always up for a challenge, and having sourced some Cacao Nibs on an unnamed [...]

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Chocolate Brownie Cake

So I’m cooking lunch for my mum and, at 10.30am the same morning she asks me what we’re having:
Mum: “Meat?”
Me: “No.”
Mum: {pleading voice} “Not vegetarian?!”
Me: “No.”
Mum: “So…it must be fish?”
Me: “Yes, yes it’s fish”
Mum: “Oh. So have you made a big dessert then?”
Me: “No. Did you want dessert?”
Mum: “Well, fish isn’t very filling and if [...]

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