Thierry Laborde & Natalie Richmond
A heavenly indulgent ‘pick me up’ recipe for you this week and the perfect way to end an evening meal. It’s a favourite choice for our private cooking parties:
Ingredients
1 egg yolk
125g mascarpone cheese
125g double cream
35g caster sugar
2 sponge fingers
2 shots espresso coffee
Cocoa powder
Method
Mix the egg yolk and sugar together with a whisk, add the cheese [...]
I’m thrilled that my blog was featured in Hammersmith & Fulham News the other day – did you see is? (page 7)
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Such a simple concoction of ingredients that creates an amazingly light but powerful and mouth-watering taste– I’d love you to try this out on your friends and family.
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For those of you who are new to The Kitchen, here’s a little background…
I [...]
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See Shirley Booth in action at one of our recent Japanese Home Cooking master classes.
Our next class is on Monday 23rd November so give us a ring to book on – 020 7736 8067
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Natalie
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