Posts Tagged ‘Fruit’

SFBI Week #15 There’s Mousse Loose Aboot This Hoose

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

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Week 15. More cake. But as the title of this post ‘hilariously’ suggests, we moved away from the predominantly flour based sponges and in to mousse cake territory.

Most of these cakes followed a similar format. Some kind of sponge base, ‘inserts’ made either from more sponge or set crème anglaise based layers flavoured with anything from lemon and raspberry to mint, surrounded with some kind of mousse set with gelatin. These cakes get finished with different techniques. Glazes, cake walls, ‘pate decor’, we even got to get the chocolate spray-gun out.

Here are a few examples (for some reason I didn’t get as many pics as usual):

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Sticky Fruit

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

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It might make me odd, but I’ve got a bit of a thing about the stickers you get on fruit. There’s something old fashioned about them, something that hasn’t really changed since I was a youngun’.

This being the case, I’ve been sticking them on the back pages of my work Moleskines over the past few years.

As far as I can remember, this pic represents the last couple of years. There are a few dupes in there, but otherwise it’s not a bad collection.

Harvest Festival

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Image from factmagazine.co.uk

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Joe Goddard of Hot Chip fame has just released a solo album called ‘Harvest Festival’, and I’m liking it. I’m a big fan of the Chip, and listening to ‘Harvest Festival’ it’s clear who influences the beats and bleeps in their releases.

Each of the tracks has a fruity theme (hence the post), Apple Bobbing, Go Bananas, Sour Grapes to name but three, and range from the melancholy and melodic to the more bass bin troubling.

There’s also a nice surprise if you buy the CD or vinyl. You get a recipe for a Tomato Harvest Chutney from the suspiciously well connected Rosie Lovell of Rosie’s Deli Cafe in Brixton. Nice touch.