Fortnum and Mason

Dear all,

As I have been away I did not have time to bake something myself. Instead I'll give you a little glimpse of a foodie thing to do: have tea and cake at Fortnum and Mason in London! Foodie heaven!

My mum had an espresso (with chocolate ice cream!) and a raspberry and yoghurt semi-cheesecake like thing.




I had tea and scones. YUM.



It was loooovely!!

xoxo Jennifer

Scandinavian Apple Cake

Dear all,

For a dinner party where I showed off my newly acquired korean cooking skills I decided to go multi-culti: I made a Scandinavian Apple Cake for dessert!

The way of making this cake was what I found interesting: you chop apples into quarters, leaving the skin on. Then spread out the cake batter (quite thick) out evenly in a cake tin, and then stick in the chunks of apple!



The cake is then topped off with a mix of muscovado sugar, aniseed and cardamom.



That was seriously good! Especially the aniseed/cardamom topping, though subtle, was the perfect finishing touch. Thank you Good Food magazine for a lovely recipe!!!



xoxo

Jennifer

ps. It's my birthday today! Who's going to make ME a cake this time?

Korean Food!

Dear all,

Here's a picture overview of the Korean Bibimbap dinner I had for friends... Showing off my Korean cooking skills of course!


Preparing the rettich and cucumber kimchi + marinating the beef for the bibimbap


Making a spring onion omelet as a side dish


The kimchi is almost done! And the beef is getting there...


Spinach and mushrooms cooked in sesame oil and garlic. Ready to go!


Skipping ahead a few steps, but here's the finished product! bibimbap! (Rice + spinach + carrot + tauge + mushroom + beef + omelet + chili paste

Perfect dinner! With a perfect dessert, check back Wednesday!

xoxo Jennifer

Ginger Chili cookies

Dear all,

Just a quick update this week, but an AWESOME one at that! My colleague mentioned these biscuits she loves from Fortnum and Mason, well, that sounded like a challenge to me! So here's my version of Ginger Chili biscuits/cookies:


Unlike several recipes I found I used some fresh ingredients as well as dry ones. So I used some freshly chopped up ginger and an actual red chili pepper. I added fresh as well as dried ginger to the dough which got a bit of a kick thanks to some cayenne pepper. Decoration consisted of some more ginger and chopped up chili pepper.


Here's the result!! I've made these several times now (they're very popular!) and I added more ginger + chili on top on the later versions, but theses are cute as they are too.



Yum yum!

xoxo Jennifer