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Macarons, Black sesame & green tea
By linda
Posted in Dessert Recipes, cookshowandtell on 16 November 2009
29 Comments

To say that I have a little bit of an obsessive nature is an understatement. I’m one those annoying people that if I don’t know how to do something, I’ll keep trying until I get it right. Once I get it right, I keep doing it until I get sick of it. Unfortunately for my family and friends, throughout the last couple of weeks, the subject of my obsession was macaron.

Daring Baker’s Challenge: Macaron
By linda
Posted in Daring Bakers, Daring Kitchen, Dessert, Uncategorized on 28 October 2009
45 Comments

With such traumatic experiences, you can understand why I was so hesitant in dipping my toes into such a challenge again. Alas, it is the nature of the DBC, over coming your fears, creating things you’d never thought possible and learning from your mistakes.

Ispahan Millefeuille recipe
By linda
Posted in Dessert Recipes, Recipes on 12 October 2009
25 Comments

After 2 hours of baking, I was done. The best part of the whole process was digging in to the millefeuille, the contrasting texture of crispy flaky puff pastry, jellied raspberry, soft airy mousse and the solid white chocolate was a great combination. The flavours from buttery, slightly sour to creamy and sweet also proved popular with the tastebud.

SIFF Sugar Hit, Perama
By linda
Posted in Dessert, Greek, SIFF - Sydney International Food Festival, Sugar Hit, Sydney, Inner West on 4 October 2009
Tagged with: Dessert
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Each week David will select four different desserts which have proven popular throughout Perama’s last 16 years. If you want to sample what we had, get down to Perama before Thursday night, as he changes the dessert selection each week that day. I’m looking forward to the next Glykomezedes at Perama.