Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.Roll the pastry out to a 0.25cm/⅛in thickness and cut out 24 circles from it using a 5cm/2in pastry cutter.Place the circles onto a baking tray and prick all over with a fork. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes, or until cooked through and golden-brown. Remove from the oven…
Let’s start the weekend right–with a cocktail recipe from Paul Clarke (The Cocktail Chronicles). Need more than one? That kinda week, eh? Here you go. Cheers! At last, it’s summer. And, it’s hot (assuming you don’t live near my home in Seattle, where it’s finally hitting the mid-70s). In the late afternoon or early evening—when…
Sugar is just more fun in cube form. But what’s really exciting about DIY sugar cubes is that you can make them in any flavor you want, so consider this recipe just a starting point. Try making rich cubes with demerara or turbinado sugar. Use vanilla extract for vanilla sugar cubes, or grind up some…
It’s that time again. Here’s my entry for September’s Iron Cupcake Earth. Ingredient: BASIL. I decided to try and make a cupcake that reminded me of cheesecake, using basil in the filling and topping. Here’s the recipe that resulted, which in hindsight, I should have cut in half because I ended up with 48 cupcakes…48…
During the late nineteenth century, as part of their Protestant beliefs, the Templers arrived in Jerusalem from Europe and established the German colony, a picturesque little neighborhood southwest of the Old City that to this day feels unusually central European. This is the “civilized” part of town, where you go for a coffee and a…
Tart and fruity Flanders red ale and dark, creamy stout make a simple two-ingredient cocktail with notes of caramel, chocolate, citrus, and berry. When selecting a stout, you’ll want something bold and rich, with strong notes of coffee and chocolate—we found that drier, lighter versions muddle and dilute the flavor of the sour instead of…
Advertisement Directions Instructions Checklist Step 1 Cut beef with the grain into 2-inch-wide strips. Cut each strip across the grain into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Combine the beef, ginger, soy sauce, 1 tsp. sherry, and cornstarch in a medium bowl; stir until the cornstarch is no longer visible. Add sesame oil and stir until the beef is…
This image courtesy of Joseph DeLeo This may be far removed from anyone’s expectations of stellar food, but give me a few of these on a picnic with a crackling cold Tocai Friuliano and a chunk of country bread, and I’m happy. I prefer our homemade tapenade, with a minimum of garlic. NotesTo Drink: A…
The Snakebite is a simple cocktail of equal parts lager and hard cider. The result is a refreshing combination of tart apple notes from the cider with malty grain character from the lager. The cocktail is so drinkable that bars sometimes refuse to serve it since it tends to lead to rapid intoxication. For a…
