Pastry cream

I made Berry Tarts from the Nov 2008 Taste magazine. The Tarts were nice but not nice enough to bother making again. The pastry cream that the tarts used was very, very good. I made another batch of it the next day and Thomas and I ate it without the Tarts.

Pastry Cream
- 250 ml [...]

Crema Catalana Baked Apples

I was reading the Indulgence section of The Dominion Post when a recipe for Crema Catalana Baked Apples caught my eye. I’d just been wondering what to do with the Granny Smith Apples sitting in our fruit bowl!

The baked apples were nice, pretty much what you’d expect from baked apples but the Cream [...]