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Pistachio Brittle Cheesecake from Bon Appetit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet and Wonderful

This was a gorgeous looking light and creamy cheesecake which tasted delicious. 4 stars only because it was lacking the pistachio flavor despite of 1 expensive cup used in the recipe. Next time I will... read more >

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A Year in my Kitchen

By Skye Gyngell
Quadrille Publishing Ltd - 2008

This is the highlight of your summer dinner party! Use only perfect fruit and you will not be disappointed.

The only issue I had with the recipe is that my crème anglaise took more than 30 minutes to reach the desired consistency not the 10 mentioned by the author. Thank god I used a thermometer to take the temperature of the custard so I knew I had to turn up the heat, otherwise I would be still stirring at the lowest possible heat waiting for my custard to thicken ;-).

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This is a delicious spring salad! The raw asparagus was a positive surprise.

I tweaked the original recipe a little though: I used raw baby spinach leaves plus lemon basil, left the asparagus spears whole and blanched them for 1 minute and put a poached egg on top.

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