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Apple Almond Snail Pastries

April 14th

Written by: tinytearoom

There are few things that I can say that I hate passionately. One of these is wasting food. It causes me deep dispair when I spend hours in the kitchen nurturing a pot of gold and it turns out to be a dud. My partner and I try our best to eat it or I try and salvage it somehow. One of these unforgettable times was when I attempted to make puff pastry. It was one of the most excruciating experiences. Somehow, somewhere in amongst the rolling, folding and refrigerating, I mucked up the recipe and it turned out a mess. The entire dough saw the bottom of the bin. I had lost an entire day of the weekend. Since this fiasco I haven’t gone anywhere near a puff pastry recipe. That is until I was watching an episode of Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals. He was putting together a dessert and rolled out store-bought puff pastry. “Quite frankly I couldn’t be bothered making my own puff pastry. If you’ve got time to make puff pastry, you need to get yourself a job.” I love this man for his passion and honesty. He had relieved me of the shame. I went out to the grocery store and bought some all-butter puff pastry sheets and made this delicious Apple Almond Snail

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Fig and Goat’s Cheese Tart

March 24th

Written by: tinytearoom

I have an insatiable appetite. A type of greed that compels me to ponder what to have for my next meal whilst in the midst of devouring one. My partner once considered my constant chatterings about food as a form of badgering. “Can we finish this meal before we think about the next one!” I’ve tried to keep it to myself, but like any obsession, I can’t help myself. Thank goodness he’s learnt to just go with it. He has now become somewhat of a food enthusiast and will often float along with me. I also have a perpetual hunger to try new things. Since my decision to blog, the appetition for it has grown even greater. I spotted these gorgeous, plump figs sitting in a basket at the farmers market and remarked that I had never eaten one of these before. It was never a fruit that was offered to me by my parents or friends but are peppered throughout my collection of food magazines and cookbooks. I thought it wouldn’t hurt to buy a few and see what I could come up with. They did not disappoint. Its glorious sweet floral perfume and luscious jammy texture reminded me of plump raisins. I adored them even more as these pretty pastry tarts. The goats cheese complimented the figs beautifully

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