Saturday, 23 November 2019

December thoughts …

Everyone has their own food favourites for the holidays. I find it's the whirlwind leading up to the festivities that can turn an organised person into a gibbering idiot!

On that sobering note my next series of stuff concentrates not on the obvious holiday food but ideas for you to make ahead, or have ingredients in your store cupboard so that you can pull together lovely grub quickly and easily – all the separate elements at your finger tips. It doesn't matter whether you're sober or not!

I always seem to begin with ideas for desserts – if you like the other end of a meal – hey, it's as good a place as any.

I've done a “Sticky Toffee Orange” in the past which has been very well received – check out the Oranges label 1/12/18 if you'd like to have a glance. Here's another direction, using oranges.

There's nothing that will serve you better than a home-made ice cream and all my recipes are of the “no-churn” variety. I use the standard vanilla ice-cream base recipe to begin :

Vanilla ice cream

Prep – 5 minutes
Total time – 5 minutes

plus freezing at least 6-8 hours
or until firm

Gives you 1.6 litres of ice cream is equal
to 18 scoops

1 x 397g tin sweetened condensed milk
1 x 600ml double cream
2tsp vanilla bean paste

Put the condensed milk, cream and vanilla into a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric hand whisk until the mixture is quite thick and stiff.

Next up … the syrup to turn into an orange ripple!


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