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This blog began as a side project when we opened Nook Eatery in 2009. In September 2012 we sold Nook, and sadly it now no longer exists. We have a new blog (see A Good Place to Gather). As always we remain inspired by the ingredients we use and the food we cook. This site remains purely as an archive of our three years at Nook Eatery and the recipes I created.

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Archive for April, 2012

Lemon Curd

A lemon curd, that contains apples.  An appley lemon curd if you will.  This old traditional recipe makes use of Bramley apples, known for their sourness.  I substituted these with Granny Smiths. ” – it’s like eating apples and custard:

Creme Brulee

INGREDIENTS: 500ml double cream 5 free range egg yolks 100ml caster sugar, plus extra for the topping 1 vanilla pod, seeds removed METHOD: Preheat the oven to 150 degrees celcius. Pour the cream into a saucepan. Split the vanilla pod

Brights Cookies

1 part oatmeal cookie, 1 part peanut butter cookie, 1 part choc chip cookie.  A whole lot of goodness. adapted from the recipe for Monster Cookies by Baked.  recipe made 24 cookies. INGREDIENTS: 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking soda Pinch

Butternut Risotto

Bread Butter Jam

A Naartjie Marmalade Pudding

adapted this recipe from hawksmoor at home, but south africanised it by using homemade naartjie marmalade.  They also suggest pouring over a sauce made by heating up marmalade with whiskey.  I substituted this with malva sauce, adding the whiskey of

 
 
 

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