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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What is it - a biscuit or a cake? You may recall that this very debate was at the centre of one of the most ludicrous legal battles in living memory. The reason being that in the UK, VAT is payable on chocolate covered biscuits, but not chocolate covered cake. (Perhaps the government think that chocolate cake is essential sustenance, while choccy biccies are an unnecessary luxury?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not a clear-cut thing. The sponge layer is probably more cakey than biscuity, but the size and format are more biscuit-like. But either way, it seemed like a great candidate for another Retro Biscuit Ice Cream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was pretty impressed with the Angel Delight ice cream mix, so I decided to use it again for the Jaffa cake ice cream. The biggest unknown was the orangey bits - this was clearly going to be rather experimental. I considered several approaches, but eventually settled on using orange jelly. I made a rather more concentrated solution that the packet recommended, and as well as water, I used the juice of two oranges along with a couple of spoons of marmalade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sponge fingers seemed like the obvious choice to represent the firm-yet-spongy Jaffa cake base, and obviously I was going to need some chunks of dark chocolate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall this was a pretty good effort. The sponge finger pieces had soaked up some of the ice cream, and tasted great as a result. The orange jelly was pretty interesting, and came out like pieces of slightly squidgy orange ice lolly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The large pieces of sponge finger and orange jelly made it hard to scoop it out in an even shape, so there is certainly some room for improvement. But overall, a solid addition to the series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was something I'd been meaning to do for quite some time - make vindaloo filled vol au vents. I like curry, I like pie, I like </span><a href="http://fishfingersarnie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/pot-luck-curry-pies.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">curry pies</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and I was quite proud of the "vindavent" portmanteau. Christmas seemed like a pretty good occasion to give these a go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously at Christmas, the meat of choice has to be Turkey. So I visited my local free range butcher and asked him to source for me the finest Turkey money could buy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it comes to curry, I do usually prefer to make mine from scratch. But time was short, so I settled for a jar of Pataks Vindaloo curry paste, which I thought would do the job. However, I did add some extra garlic and a couple of home-grown-dried chillies, just in case the paste wasn't powerful enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cooked the curry in oven on a low temperature overnight. In the morning, I was glad to see that my meat of dubious origin was now nice and tender, and had completely fallen away from the bone. S</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eparating out the pieces of bone and inedible gristle was a quick and simple job after this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut out the vol au vent cases from a sheet of puff pastry, and of course, made little "hats" for the tops. When the pastry was almost cooked, I stuffed them with the curry and put them back in the oven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I gotta say - the vindavents were pretty good, but needed more heat. I cursed the shop bought curry paste. The real stars of the evening were </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not one but TWO "Christmas pies". Turkey, stuffing, sausage, cranberry sauce and more crammed into a gargantuan pie crust. So if there sufficient leftovers after the Fishbiscuits Christmas dinner, I may well be making one of these myself.</span></div>
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So it turns out that Tesco do their very own clone of the classic Krispy Kreme glazed ring doughnut - and at four for £1.50, they are a fraction of the price of the real McCoy. Better still, you can sometimes pick them up at a knock-down price at the end of the evening before the store closes! And there was only one obvious thing to do with eight slightly stale glazed doughnuts...</span><br />
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After 10 minutes I took the pudding out of the oven, covered it in grated chocolate, and put it back in for another 15 minutes. And then it was done! The top had gone lovely and crispy, the sugary glaze on each doughnut blistering impressively in the heat of the oven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beneath the crispy top layer, the doughnuts and custard had combined into a deliciously rich and sickly goo, interspersed with plenty of melted chocolate. Strangely, I'd say that the texture was actually noticably lighter than a normal bread and butter pudding. In fact, it really did taste bloody delicious.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I simmered the chicken thighs in the red bull with the </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">chopped garlic and chilli for a little while. Long enough for it to start to come away from the bone, but not so long that it completely fell apart.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So how did it taste? Exactly as you might imagine... very sweet, very spicy, and rather chemically. It was kind of OK, but maybe not a recipe to repeat regularly. I think Coke would have worked much better... in fact the chicken on it's own would have been better. But the experience has made me a wiser man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Takoyaki, originating from Osaka in a quintissential Japanese street food. Balls of batter containing pieces of octopus, and covered in a mess of mayonnaise, takoyaki sauce (sort of like brown sauce), dried tuna flakes, and various bits and pieces. Delicious, addictive, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and impossible to eat without getting your face covered in sauce and grease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Okonomiyaki is a thick, dense, sloppy pancake, often containing noodles and shredded cabbage. It is topped with the same brown sauce you get on Takoyaki, and usually mayonnaise too. In the "Osaka" version, the ingredients are all mixed up, while the "Hiroshima" version is layered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I particularly enjoyed this little food truck serving a variety of stuff deep fried stuff. The selection included pork, rolled up bacon, prawns, and best of all, Japanese beef. You wouldn't eat a whole meal here, think of it as tasty snacks to enjoy in the evening with a few glasses of beer or sake. I don't know if there's a name for this stuff, but either way, it was pretty good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Japanese-style curry is everywhere in Japan. Introduced to Japan by the British (who else), it has since taken on a life of its own and become a Japanese staple. Beef curry is one of the more common varieties, but my favourite is undoubtedly pork katsu curry - and I tend to eat it at every possible opportunity. I even had it as an in-flight meal!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've mentioned the curry doughnut (kare-pan) before, but it really is a wonderful invention, and makes for an interesting surprise if you can't read Japanese and happen to buy one from the local bakery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Everyone knows that the Japanese love their instant noodles, but instant curry-rice was a new one to me. I did actually buy one, but it got tragically lost in transit. But I can kind of imagine what it might taste like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cream puffs - large choux pastry buns filled with custard or cream - are really popular in Japan. I also enjoyed obanyaki, a kind of hocky-puck-shaped cake </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with custard filling</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, eaten freshly cooked. This particular one was green tea flavoured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baumkuchen is another popular import, and as with curry, they've kind of made it their own. You can find flavoured versions of this layered cake, such as green tea and sweet potato, all made using these awesome machines. I'm going to try making one of these some day soon... not quite sure how, but I think it will involve a packet of "yellow cake mix" and a frying pan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are seemingly endless varieties of sweets in Japan, and I was particularly intrigued by the flavoured Kit Kats - apparently there have been over 200 varieties released over the years, including soy sauce, wasabi, and ginger ale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found this ridiculous milkshake in a branch of Mos-Burger (popular Japanese burger chain). It's essentially a thick milkshake inside a choux pastry cone, served in a mug. Weird but pretty good. Actually, very good. I'll add this to the list of things I might try making at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When it comes to booze, Japanese beer isn't much to write home about - especially the major brands, which have become as ubiquitous worldwide as Fosters, and about as flavoursome. Sake is all well and good, but I found this Okinawan </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pineapple Wine and had to give it a try. The truth is it tasted a bit rough, but mixed with a little <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocari_Sweat">Pocari Sweat</a>, it went down pretty well... although it gave me a hell of a headache the next morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11590305207519603731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368163727669076078.post-9874926145291355762013-10-08T14:05:00.001-07:002013-11-11T05:09:29.360-08:00Toasties Episode 2 - The Desserts<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The more I thought about toasted sandwiches, the more combinations I realised were possible. In fact, perhaps the £5 toasted sandwich maker is the only cooking equipment you really need to own!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first dessert toastie was apple pie themed. Apple sauce and slices of apple, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an experiment, I removed the sandwich halfway through cooking, coated it with butter and sugar, and put it back in the toasting device. This created a rather pleasing sticky coating. It almost ruined the sandwich toaster, but I think it was worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was wondering whether a two-layer toastie would be practical, and if so, what fillings I should use. Well, how about a double decker toastie - based on the chocolate bar of the same name?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, so the photos are a little blurry... I'd had a couple of drinks at this point. To be honest you need a little sharpener before tackling something like this. But I'm pleased to say that the twin layer toastie actually worked pretty well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hmmmm</i>. Delicious!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure everyone knows that treacle tart filling is not made from treacle at all - it's made from golden syrup and breadcrumbs. Luckily I had a lot of spare bread lying around...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just for fun, I turned the sandwich round halfway through cooking, to create four small triangles instead of the standard pattern. And I must say, it turned out pretty well. And it went down a treat with a scoop of ice cream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11590305207519603731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368163727669076078.post-45341056810429889492013-09-09T08:35:00.000-07:002013-11-11T05:09:10.346-08:00Student Special - Tasty Toasties<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The start of the new academic year is upon us, and as we speak a new generation of students will be leaving home, settling down in grim Northern cities, and starting the transition into adult life. Although many freshers will be staying in catered halls, they find the meals unappeizing - or simply feel that their time is better spent in the pub. And of course, there's always the need for post beer snacks. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I thought I'd share some wisdom with the younger generation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sandwich toaster is a wonderful thing. Small, cheap, and capable of producing delicious hot "parcels" of whatever molten contents your heart desires - no student should be without one. And at this price, there is simply no excuse for not owning one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cheese is obviously the classic filling, and baked bean is also popular amongst the more forward thinking students. But I think we can do better. However, we must remember that students in halls often have no real cooking facilities, so no pre-cooking of fillings will be possible. And of course, preference should be given to fillings which are cheap and cheerful...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tinned meatballs in tomato sauce make a great toastie filling, and they're pretty cheap. They do taste a bit crap, but a layer of cheese really helps, along with some pepper. Be careful not to over-fill the sandwich...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Takeaways are a luxury for a student - after all, a takeaway curry with trimmings probably costs about the same as 6 pints from the student union. But we all need our treats now and again. I like to mix my leftover curry together (rice, veg, everything) for later consumption. Perfect in a toastie for a hungover Saturday lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ask any Italian what their favourite pizza topping is, and you'll always get the same answer - Hawaiiiiian. The combination of tropical fruit and fine charcuterie is a firm favourite from Naples to Milan. Here I've recreated this slice of Italy with a dollop of pasta sauce, topped with cheese, ham, and pineapple. Sprinkled with a little dried oregano for the gourmet student. Like-a-mama-used-to-make-a.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are exciting times on the horizons, as FishBiscuits HQ is moving to a new premises! Unfortunately, the future Fishbiscuits Mansions is currently in a bit of a state, and needs a hell of a lot of work before it is fit for human habitation. Therefore my current weapons of choice are the hammer and drill, rather than the whisk and frying pan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nevertheless, I still had time to put together this rather special "dish". First stop - KFC. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think most people like a bit of fried chicken now and again, whether it's a post piss-up snack, a Friday lunchtime guilty pleasure, or just </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a crap dinner. But today I wasn't looking for the Colonel's traditional drumsticks/thighs - I was after the "Boneless Banquet". </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This consists of three mini breast fillets, fries, and small box of "popcorn" chicken. You also get a drink, one side, and a dip. The price for this little lot is around £6.50, which I don't think is particularly cheap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here is my homage to the Salt/Flavour 'n' Shake concept. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First I made the crisps by thinly slicing potato and sweet potato, and then deep frying in vegetable oil until golden brown and very crispy.</span></div>
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I made the curry seasoning by roasting cumin, coriander seeds, mustard seeds, peppercorns and cardamon. I finely ground the roasted spices, and mixed in some salt and chilli powder... before putting the whole lot in a big bag and giving it a damn good shake!</div>
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Fresh home made crisps are simple, cheap, and taste bloody brilliant. I guess they could be a good opener at a dinner party, but I wouldn't really know - I just sat down with a nice cold beer in front of the TV, and scoffed the lot.<br />
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Not a particularly masculine pair of words, I'm sure you'll agree. However, my latest creation involves something akin to "building", so I guess I can reclaim a modicum of manliness there. The plan was to create a sort of giant pink wafer, with vanilla ice cream in the middle. Side walls built out of actual pink wafer biscuits, and the top and bottom out of rectangular ice cream wafers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first thing to figure out was how to dye the large wafers pink, to create the top and bottom layers of the wafer sandwich. My first idea was to soak them in a solution of red food colouring, then dry them out in the oven. However, they emerged from the oven rather crinkly and deformed - this technique was clearly not going to work. The second approach involved "painting" them with a stronger solution, followed by a brief blast in the oven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is not the case any more. The noble prawn sandwich struggles to compete against today's offerings of <em>jamón serrano and manchego cheese on artisan sourdough,</em> let alone <em>hay-baked swan thigh with foraged woodland herbs and owl's egg mayo on freshly baked pain de campagne</em>. More often than not, you can find a prawn cocktail sandwich, limp and soggy, reduced to 50p in Boots at 7:45pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I have never lost faith in the prawn cocktail sandwich, and I think I've found a great way to boost its fortunes. I bring you the double prawn cocktail sandwich. Containing prawn cocktail AND prawn cocktail crisps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course, I had to taste a few crisps first, just to check they were up to the high JerryFishbiscuits standards. When the time came to assemble the sandwich, I found that a layer of green stuff was necessary to prevent the crisps from getting soggy (creating "food barriers" is a complex subject which has been touched upon by Mr Noodles <a href="http://eatlovenoodles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/strange-habits.html">here</a>). I wouldn't want anyone thinking that I was going all health conscious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to the latest post in the Retro Biscuit Ice Cream series! Luckily the weather's been absolutely scorchio recently, perfect conditions for enjoying your favourite biscuits in a delicious ice cream format!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihi2pEbkSfcIlCjLU5U23eD7jlEURI4xeRiMdin0jjaNG8jEbn6wqgFdowFfr6fffPzVcOX7us4C6nqNfebCtfamedn6cW9gBTnD80mZspe5CnmZ1I7BAZdKN4zgyT_Mq_wjZaiZbWimrZ/s1600/IceCreamChallenge_thumb1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihi2pEbkSfcIlCjLU5U23eD7jlEURI4xeRiMdin0jjaNG8jEbn6wqgFdowFfr6fffPzVcOX7us4C6nqNfebCtfamedn6cW9gBTnD80mZspe5CnmZ1I7BAZdKN4zgyT_Mq_wjZaiZbWimrZ/s1600/IceCreamChallenge_thumb1.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As well as creating another instalment in the series, I'm fulfilling two promises with this post. Firstly </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by satisfying my <a href="http://ginandcrumpets.com/">friend's</a> request to see a "Viscount" style ice cream. And Secondly, by entering for the latest <a href="http://www.kaveyeats.com/category/bsfic">Bloggers Scream for Ice Cream</a> challenge, something I've been meaning to do for some while now. The latest challenge is for herb based ice creams - but more on that later. I do like to try different things out (you could even say I was "adventurous" in my own way), and </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've already made ice cream from a custard base. I've also used the condensed milk method, and I've even used Angel Delight ice cream mix (it actually does turn out better than you'd think!). So for my latest retro biscuit ice cream, I'm making frozen yoghurt!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD-icfdAvp5YjCpp-OFa01Mlm749qUvqcD_tBIY2jwGcAJhp65erhTS_HH7DBjqaaALLdDcdvi5mdNRUQFUCQs5xgW5DA0KFSJvwmbIYiEgCDxn-vdo02HNe1g0EbeDwxVLtZm6ntvl3yR/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD-icfdAvp5YjCpp-OFa01Mlm749qUvqcD_tBIY2jwGcAJhp65erhTS_HH7DBjqaaALLdDcdvi5mdNRUQFUCQs5xgW5DA0KFSJvwmbIYiEgCDxn-vdo02HNe1g0EbeDwxVLtZm6ntvl3yR/s1600/2.jpg" /></a>The Viscount was a fine biscuit indeed, with a layer of creamy minty stuff and a milk chocolate coating. I haven't seen it in a few years, in fact I was certain it had been discontinued... but apparently, despite attempts to re-launch it in the "luxury" market, it can often be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_(biscuit)">found in Iceland and pound shops</a>! I suppose I could make a return visit to <a href="http://fishfingersarnie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/weekend-in-iceland.html">Iceland</a> in the name of research, but I really don't feel quite ready for that yet. So I'm recreating the noble Viscount in ice cream (sorry... frozen yoghurt) form entirely from memory. <span style="text-align: center;">I started with a recipe for mint chop chip frozen yoghurt which I found </span><a href="http://www.sweetpaulmag-digital.com/sweetpaulmag/spring2011#pg96" style="text-align: center;">online</a><span style="text-align: center;">. The base of this recipe is a frozen yoghurt made with fresh mint (aha!), so I made a syrup with a handful of mint leaves and a ton of sugar. Once the syrup had cooled down, I strained it and whisked it into some greek yoghurt, along with a little buttermilk. I was intrigued to see that the recipe stated that green food colouring was optional... should I leave it off-white as per the Viscount minty filling, or go green in keeping with the colour of the Viscount wrapper (and traditional mint-choc-chip style)? Of course, it had to be green!!</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But I suddenly had a last minute brainwave. I remembered the box of After Eight mints we had in the dining room. Somebody had bought them round a while ago, and they had been sitting there ever since (the mints, not the person).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I would have loved to have brought a whole pile of <a href="http://fishfingersarnie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/chili-dog.html">chili dogs</a> to the July Band Of Bakers event, but it wouldn't really be practical. It wouldn't really be baking, either. So this is the next best thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First of all I obviously had to make the chili. I made it fairly hot, with a large chili pepper, cayenne pepper, chili powder, cumin, Tabasco, and smoked chili paste. Once it had cooled, it was time to assemble the pies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And yellow cheese (as I imagine Americans might call it). Then baked in the oven for 20 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's funny how things always taste hotter when you're cooking them. My wife coughed and spluttered when she tried a spoon of the chili, but in the final pie format, it tasted rather tame. Just as well I brought the mustard!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not really a 'social media' type of fellow. I supposed I'm just too busy coming up with ridiculous dishes to spend time engaging with the twitterati. But when my PR representative took to Twitter to ask my numerous fans what retro biscuit they'd like to see turned into an ice cream, I was deluged with responses. While I'd love to make all of them, it would take me literally most of the morning. So I've just picked one for now - the orange Club.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've always liked Clubs, the layer of chocolate was pleasingly plentiful, and the biscuit was satisfyingly crisp. They now come in four flavours - milk chocolate, fruit (raisin), orange, and mint. But back in the day, there was also a plain chocolate variety with a golf ball on the wrapper. Now why, I ask you, would they put a bloody golf ball on the packet? What's all that about?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, for the orange club ice cream, I decided that the best approach would be to make two separate ice creams - chocolate and orange - and sort of swirl them together with biscuit chunks. I'd recently read about a way of making ice cream by simply whipping up double cream with condensed milk and putting in the freezer, so I decided to use that approach for this project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the chocolate ice cream, I melted some milk chocolate with a bit of cream, and then when it had cooled, whipped it up with some more cream and some condensed milk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It looked a mess in the tub, but actually looked pretty damn good when served in scoops. In honour of the Club's thick chocolate coating, what better way to serve this than with a topping of my home made <a href="http://fishfingersarnie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/chocolate-orange-ice-magic.html">chocolate orange 'Ice Magic'</a>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure everybody knows by now that something called a cronut has taken New York by storm. A deep-fried croissant-doughnut hybrid, which people start queuing up for at 5am, before the bakery sells out of them within 15 minutes. </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/10085165/New-York-goes-nuts-for-the-cronut.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One unstable individual apparently cried</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when she arrived that little bit too late to buy one. Other people travel hundreds of miles, or even pay $100 for </span><a href="http://www.croissantdoughnut.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">someone else</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to wait in line and buy one for them. I'm sure they're good... in fact, they look amazing... but even if I lived in NY, getting up at 5am or paying some chancer $100 just doesn't make any sense to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can imagine, the cronut hasn't reach South London yet -</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but where there's a will, there's a way. Croissant dough is notoriously technical and time consuming to make, but something caught my eye in the supermarket freezer cabinet the other day... ready-to-bake croissants!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first step in transforming these into cronuts is obviously to defrost them, and then squidge them all together and roll them out. In an effort to attain vaguely even flaky layers, I rolled out the dough, folded it, and repeated a few times. Finally it was time to cut out the doughnut shapes. I only managed to get three out of it... and there wasn't much dough wasted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully they puffed up very well, and the outside was nice and crisp. I fancied a maple glaze on my cronuts, so I mixed some icing sugar with maple syrup and a little water. I dunked them into the icing so they were half covered, then left them to set for a few minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stopped short of awarding them the full 11/11 out of respect for the <a href="http://dominiqueansel.com/">definitive version</a>, but while these might not be as good (or as light) as the real deal, they <em>were</em> pretty bloody good. In fact, I polished off all three in no time at all. I didn't have to go to all the way to NY, and I didn't have to get up in the middle of the night or pay the price of a prime steak dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there's another - altogether more serious - side to barbecue. Slow cooking, tender meat, smoke, and lots of flavour. And arguably <u>the</u> classic American barbecue food is pulled pork. It's become a popular dish of late, but unfortunately that means that there are a lot of bad versions out there doing the rounds. It's not hard to do it properly, it just takes a bit of time and patience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I started off by making a dry rub mix - brown sugar, paprika, cayenne pepper, cumin, chilli powder, salt and pepper. I rubbed it into a pork shoulder joint, and left in the fridge for a few hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Barbecuing is not an easy thing for me to do, as I don't have a garden (I always feel a pang of jealousy when I sniff the air and realise that the neighbours are having yet another barbecue). </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Even a disposable foil barbecue is beyond my reach - let alone a full sized drum smoker. But luckily, it is possible to smoke food indoors... so it was time to prepare the Jerry Fishbiscuits (tm) custom smoker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I took some hickory chips, and soaked them in Southern Comfort and a little water.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> I put the chips in the bottom of a foil tray, put the meat over them on the wire rack, and wrapped the whole thing tightly in foil, creating a sort of parcel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'll tell you what NOT to do next... don't put foil directly over a naked flame, no matter how gentle, because it will burn right through it. You need a proper metal roasting tin between the stove and your foil parcel. It might sound obvious to you - but it wasn't obvious to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This thing takes a long time to cook... I left mine for a couple of hours, before replacing the smoking chips, and then smoking again for another two hours. I'd say that four hours is the bare minimum duration, but the meat was pretty tender by then, and disintegrated quite easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I doused the meat in a delicious mixture of barbecue sauce and smoked chilli paste, and ate it in a giant bread roll with lots of coleslaw.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like many great chefs, I seek to explore the relationship between the senses. I find that presenting the eyes with one thing and the taste buds with another creates a fascinating incongruity - and if executed skilfully, an unforgettable dining experience. I take great satisfaction not only from creating something wonderful and unique, but also from the joy and delight on the faces of those who I am lucky enough to share the experience with.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's why I made a swiss roll with black pudding in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a basic recipe for savoury swiss roll online (which was essentially just self raising flour with whisked eggs) and added some bacon - cooked to a crisp and finely chopped - to the mixture. The thin layer of sponge only took ten minutes or so to cook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made the filling from a few slices of cooked black pudding mixed with a little bit of thickened beef stock, and briefly whizzed it up in the blender. The plan was to spread the black pudding "puree" over the sponge and neatly roll it up... but it didn't quite go according to plan. The sponge was tough and rubbery, bordering on inedible, and it actually split when I tried to roll it. My heart sank, as I realised that my latest creation was headed for a complete disaster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, my wife happens to be an expert swiss roll maker. And despite firmly believing that my black pudding swiss roll sounded completely disgusting, she saved the day by whipping up another batch of sponge batter in record time. Ten minutes later, it came out of the oven... light, soft, and delicious. What a woman!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is the world ready yet for the black pudding swiss roll? Well, where better to try it out than the "Band Of Bakers" summer picnic. It was initially met with a few looks of disbelief, but I think it went down pretty well in the end - and I must admit that it was a pretty good match for a nice cold beer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11590305207519603731noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368163727669076078.post-82840242158140335262013-06-10T03:03:00.000-07:002013-06-10T03:03:07.932-07:00Retro Biscuit Ice Cream #2 - Jamboree (Jam Mallow)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post started life as Jammy Dodger ice cream, but while vanilla ice cream with bits of biscuit and jam sounded OK in theory, in practise it just wasn't all that interesting. But luckily the project then morphed into something altogether more exciting and tasty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm hoping most of you will recognise this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know them is Jamborees. Others may know them as Jam Mallows. And apparently in Ireland they are called Mikado (for some inexplicable reason). But the concept is the same - rectangular biscuits, covered in raspberry jam, pink marshmallow, and coconut.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While all the cool kids at school were sneaking off for a cigarette at lunch time, I have fond memories of popping down to the local shop to buy a packet of Jamborees, and promptly scoffing the whole lot. It's a mystery how I wasn't the fattest kid in school. But I digress... it's another classic biscuit that I haven't seen in years, so a perfect candidate for a retro biscuit ice cream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the previous entry in the series, I used Angel Delight ice cream mix as the base - and although I considered it a resounding success, this time I wanted proper ice cream... the dense, heavy, creamy stuff. But I'm not the sort of person to do things the hard way, so instead of making a custard base from scratch, I used a mixture of ready-made custard and double cream. It was then time to hijack my wife's favourite kitchen gadget - the ice cream attachment for the mixer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She really hates it when I use her stuff, and she generally stands over me to make sure that I use it correctly, wash it thoroughly (and at the correct temperature), and then carefully dry it and put it away in the correct place. But it was worth the hassle, because the ice cream came out really well... rich, thick, and just generally the way ice cream should be. In fact, if you have an ice cream maker, I thoroughly recommend the shop-bought custard method.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To make the pink marshmallow, I stirred a few drops of red food colouring into half a jar of marshmallow fluff. I then spooned out a few blobs of the stuff, and coated with coconut. Marshmallow fluff is one of the stickiest substances known to man, and it seems to get everywhere, but eventually I had ten or so nice lumps of coconut coated pink goo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took some bog standard shortcake biscuits, broke them into small pieces, and stirred them into the ice cream along with the marshmallow. Finally, I made a raspberry "sauce" from a handful of raspberries and some jam, stirred it into the ice cream, and put the whole lot in the freezer.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11590305207519603731noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368163727669076078.post-53243690510499885762013-06-07T02:06:00.000-07:002013-06-07T02:06:08.290-07:00Chili Verde Enchiladas<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making dinner is often a fine balancing act, between the kind of thing I like to eat (greasy, fatty, spicy, messy) and something other people might consider to be actual food. So when I offered to cook the other night, my wife's repsonse was a cautious "OK, as long as it won't end up on your ridiculous blog". The poor woman was probably expecting something unspeakably disgusting, fashioned from frozen burgers and curry sauce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I guess I had the last laugh, because we happily ate every last mouthful, and here it is on my blog</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... chili verde enchiladas.</span><br />
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What's that, I hear you say? Vegetabes? Fresh herbs? Well yes, but bear with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hili verde is a Mexican pork stew, in a spicy green sauce. Not so common here, but you see it all over the place in the US. My version isn't really authentic... the proper version contains tomatillos, but I don't think you can get them here, so I improvised a little. I started making the sauce by frying onions with assorted chillies, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the onions were browned, I added some smoked chilli paste, chicken stock, chopped green pepper, coriander, dried oregano, and lime juice (in lieu of the missing sourness from the tomatillos). After everything had softened and cooked down a bit, I blended the sauce until it was nice and smooth.</span><br />
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Now, doesn't that look great? Greasy and meaty, with a fiery heat, and it doesn't taste all all "vegetabley". It's great on it's own or with some rice, but it's even better as an enchilada filling - rolled between tortillas, topped with extra sauce and grated cheese, and cooked in the oven for a few minutes.</span><br />
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Anyway, I thought I'd start with one of my absolute favourite childhood treats, the Wagon Wheel. According to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Wheels"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wikipedia</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> they are still available, but I haven't personally seen one for at least 15 years, and they're very much something I associate with a bygone era (i.e. my youth). And speaking of food blasts-from-the-past, I had a special trick up my sleeve for making the ice cream. Remember Angel Delight? Well, I present to you... Angel Delight ice cream mix!</span><br />
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Yes that's right, a sachet of ice cream mix brought to you by those crazy cats at Angel Delight HQ. You just whisk it up with 150ml of milk until it dramatically increases in volume, and put it in the freezer. That's it. No ice cream maker, no removing from the freezer to stir every 15 minutes, none of that malarkey. It sounded too good to be true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ice cream is pretty light - as you'd expect from a tub of ice cream that was made from only 150ml (i.e a small glass) of milk. The texture is more reminiscent of a cheap old-school "soft scoop" ice cream, than a nice thick home-made one. But it does taste like ice cream, and is far from unpleasant... and the combination of biscuit pieces, marshmallow, and chocolate worked really well. In fact, I really think that someone should manufacture Wagon Wheel ice cream - they'd definitely have a loyal customer in the shape of Jerry Fishbiscuits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A quick bit of research shows that a few other people have successfully met the first two criteria by mixing melted chocolate with coconut oil. But I had to get the orange flavour in there, and also make sure that the oil didn't dilute the sweetness of the chocolate. I decided that the solution was to infuse the oil with orange rind, and add a little syrup into the mixture too.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11590305207519603731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368163727669076078.post-79111947893114949132013-05-23T08:41:00.001-07:002013-05-23T08:41:50.858-07:00Jalfrizza<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many years ago, a friend told me that you could make quick, tasty pizzas using naan bread as a base. And it's a tip which has served me well over the years - just spread with tomato paste, herbs, cheese, and whatever stuff you have lying around, and shove into the oven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But today, I'm taking this concept a step further. Taking inspiration from this long-standing nugget of wisdom, I have created a brand new "recipe" - the Jalfrezi Pizza. To make a Jalfrizza, if you will need:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chicken tikka jalfrezi (takeaway is perfect)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onion bhaji</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paneer</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Put it in the oven at a pretty hot temperature for a few minutes - as a rough guide, at 220 for 10 minutes, it comes out a bit burned. Enjoy with a nice cold bottle of IPA (Indian Pizza Ale).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far so good. But this wasn't enough for me, I wanted my own unique twist, something that would really pack a flavour. I considered a few different options, until I settled on a sort of "Tex-Mex" theme... hot chili tomato sauce on one side of the burger, and guacamole on the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made the spicy sauce by frying chopped onion and chili, adding black pepper and cumin, then chucking in some tomato puree, ketchup, Tabasco, and chopped coriander.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As this was to be their first anniversary, the theme was 'celebration'. I anticipated multi-tiered cakes, opera cakes, croquembouche, and all manner of extravagant creations. But I had a rather different interpretation of "celebration". Hence, the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrations"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celebrations</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Pie was born. A chocolate covered tart, consisting of three sections inspired by Mars, Snickers, and Bounty bars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started by making the pastry base - I'm no baker, so rolling out some shop bought sweet pastry into a tin is about as technical as I get. The packet promised "perfect pastry every time", which seemed optimistic, but it turned out about as well as I could hope for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, how did the celebrations pie go down at the baking club birthday party? As predicted, there was a plethora of impressive cakes on display, and mine did look a bit sad in comparison. One person even mumbled </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"urgh, I'm not eating that", which I found pretty funny. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But actually most people were very positive and encouraging, and generally kind towards the special kid in the class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, my creation was (almost) all gone at the end of the night - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but I did manage to rescue a slice of "Mars" to take home.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I was fairly happy with it, but if I were to be critical, the Mars filling needed a stronger malty flavour, and the Snickers needed more peanuts - and maybe even a pinch of salt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went home happy, with a belly full of cake and booze, and a big box full of amazing cake. And if they'll have me back again, I may just have a few more tricks up my sleeve...</span><br />
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