Posts Tagged ‘ wine ’

GPO Cheese and Wine Room

October 5, 2010
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GPO Cheese and Wine Room

Bless me father for I have sinned, I have committed the cardinal sin of any food blogger……. Off to a girly dinner of cheese and wine, it was around 11am whilst performing a completely unrelated task at work that it struck me, no camera. Wait, what? No camera? But you are going out to dinner! I thought to myself, scalding myself in my head and probably looking quite blankly at my computer. Hopefully no one picked up on this as it might have scared my co-workers. Trying to think of ways to combat this catastrophe without A, costing too much money and B, still coming up with great quality pics. Nothing. So I apologise in advance for the quality of the pics as they were taken on my iPhone and we all know how the iPhone performs in low lit areas. Now on to my post – we arrived...

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Strawberry tart with Dolcetto and honeycomb

September 8, 2010
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Strawberry tart with Dolcetto and honeycomb

Some left over shortcrust pastry prompted me to be resourceful with other sweet left over ingredients in my fridge (and a little booze for good measure). Enter my strawberry tart….A pyramid of freshly whipped cream, plump, boozy, sweet strawberries and crumbled honeycomb. This is a great dessert for Spring but probably not so good for the Spring time gym efforts. Well at least there’s fruit on it right? Ingredients Shortcrust pastry (see here for the recipe) 1-2 punnets of strawberry’s (depending on the size you are making) 250ml Dolcetto and Syrah wine 250-500ml thickened cream 80ml honey 20ml water 220g white sugar 2 tsp bicarb soda Method Wash and hull strawberries and place in a small bowl with the wine. Leave in the fridge overnight (or as long as you patiently can) to let them get to know each other. Roll out the pastry and fit it to a...

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