Celebrate the begining of summer with this decadent desert using our delicious strawberries… Ingredients – chocolate pastry 110g Butter 180g flour 60g icing sugar 1 tbsp cocoa 1 egg Ingredients – tart filling 200g 70% cocoa chocolate, chopped 150 ml whipping cream 250g strawberries, hulled & sliced Additional whipped cream for decorating Chocolate shavings for [...]
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Chocolate Truffle Strawberry Tarts
October 23, 2009
2009 Strawberry Season Kicks Off
October 2, 2009
The 2009 season has started with local berries appearing in stores. The current crop is early season and so some of the berries out there are a bit green, in some brands cases too green. Strawberries with more than 20% green/white shoulders (the part near the calyx) will not be very sweet and a bit [...]
Strawberry season hits peak… last week
December 19, 2008
Some years strawberry growers are lucky and the production peaks just in time for Christmas, most of the time it doesn’t and that’s just the way nature does things – unpredictably! This season it looks like product across the country peaked last week and since then the size of strawberries has dropped rapidly. If you’ve [...]
Strawberry Sorbet
December 13, 2008
Well hasn’t the weather been fantastic? More than a few people have commented that this was like the summers they had when they were kids – near impossible to know whether this is just a perception or the summers really were better. Maybe things are warming up and we’ll start getting some nice summers [...]
