More food p*rn

Since Ed and I got back from India in early July I can't seem to stop baking. I've just been craving comfort food. Here are some photos of the latest things that I've baked. When we moved recently I discovered that I had a big stash of almond meal so I've been trying to think of recipes that would enable me to use some of it up. I came across a recipe for an almond and rhubarb jalousie (not really sure what a jalousie is but it seems to involve pastry). Here is a image of the jalouise being assembled. I decided to add some mixed berries to the filling as I didn't have enough stewed rhubarb.



Before baking.



And fresh out of the oven.



This weekend I also had my first attempt at baking sourdough bread from a starter that Princess Bek had given to Princess Rebecca who then passed it on to me (See the Princessi stitch n bitch blog for references to these lovely ladies). It's an easy recipe which requires no kneading however you must be organised as you need to start preparing for the bread two days before you bake it. Here is a photo of the sourdough straight out of the oven.



Here is a photo of it turned out, still piping hot. It looks a bit warty but otherwise appears to resemble a loaf of bread.



Slices of piping hot sourdough just before they were drowned in butter and devoured by Ed and myself.

Food P*rn, or, these things that I have baked/made

It's been a while since I blogged so I thought I'd share some images of some of the yummy foods that I have been making recently.
Here is a pic of the delicious apple and date cake I made yesterday.



Here is the last slice (sniff, sniff) of the amazing Hazelnut caramel slice that I made last week for Nhu-y's 25th birthday.



I also made some awesome blueberry pancakes for weekend brekky a little while ago.



Earlier this year I had a glut of ripe bananas which led to Bananafest '08. I started with a Banana cake topped with cream cheese icing. Delicious.



Having still more bananas to use up I tried my hand at Banana ice cream, which was the most delicious ice cream I have ever tasted!



Recently I tried my hand at making my Grandma's lovely moist sponge cake, which was a bit of a disaster but still tasted ok despite it's appearance.