Category: Desserts

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  Fruit Mince Pies

  Posted at 10:57 am by tastewithoutwaste

  Dec 31st

  Apologies for this post. I’m sorry, I truly am. After a week filled with Christmas festivities the last thing you want to be looking at is more Christmas food. I mean, I’m a major fruit mince pie fiend, however simply looking at these photos makes me want to hurl a little. Toooo mucccchhh fooooooddd. No? Maybe you have more self-restraint. Maybe you don’t suffer from eating too many serves of cheesecake/plum pudding/rum balls/said fruit mince pies. And all the chocolate. Maybe your tolerance for fruit mince pies is bottomless. I wish. In any case we’re a bit behind the times around these parts – posting a recipe for fruit mince pies a week after Christmas. Sheesh. Who does that? Alternatively you could say we’re super duper prepared – one recipe already on the list for Christmas 2015. Heh, if only. Continue reading →

  Posted in Desserts | Tagged Christmas, Fruit Mince, Pastry, Pie
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  Crumble Topped Nectarine for Two (or One!)

  Posted at 6:08 pm by tastewithoutwaste

  Dec 3rd

  A ripe, juicy nectarine and dollop of natural yoghurt is perfectly adequate dessert material. Sweet, rich and creamy it ticks the ‘treat’ box just fine. However, there are times when you fancy a smidge more indulgence, and without major effort involved. Those are the times when you’re sorely tempted to reach for that box of chocolates, the one you stashed somewhere obscure in the hope that you might forget their location…but hold up a sec! Don’t go hunting for the chocolates just yet. Why, there’s another option on the cards. Let’s take a second look at that nectarine of yours. Sitting so innocently in the fruit bowl.  In under twenty minutes you can transform this baby into a ‘luxurious’ dessert that’s a hell-of-a lot healthier, and satisfying, than a box of chocolates (because let’s be honest we never stop at just one). Continue reading →
  Posted in Breakfast, Desserts | Tagged Crumble, Healthy, Nectarine, Single Serve
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  Bite-sized Pecan Pies

  Posted at 11:29 am by tastewithoutwaste

  Jun 30th

  Ahhh another baking blunder. They seem to happen far more frequently than I’d like to admit. Or perhaps that’s because like with all ‘mistakes’ or embarrassing moments they tend to stick in one’s mind. Stand out. To act as reminders. Don’t do that again. No really, don’t. This particular boo-boo however, I will be repeating. On purpose. Take that you careful, cautious brain. At cookery school it was drilled into us “thou shalt not mess with baking recipes. Especially pastry.” Repeatedly. You’d go home on the bus muttering it under your breath. I can tell you that attracts some strange looks. Especially when you’ve still got a smear of flour on your face and butter on your arms. Why don’t people tell you? Is it funny? But yes we knew loud and clear not to mess with pastry. From the way our teachers ranted on and on and on about it, one was sure they would stimulate an apocalypse-style situation if one so much as measured our flour out one gram too much. Continue reading →

  Posted in Desserts | Tagged Cream Cheese, Maple, Pastry, Pecan, Pie
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  Apple Crumble

  Posted at 6:08 pm by tastewithoutwaste

  May 28th

  The cooler Autumnal weather always generates strong feelings of nostalgia for England. They have been especially strong this year in Melbourne, with the prevalence of numerous large deciduous trees surrounding the residential colleges and university (sound familiar? I can’t help myself when it comes to Autumn leaves. It’s an odd fascination, I know). The varying red-golden hues take me back to my six-month student exchange program nigh on four years ago. As the days drew shorter and the darkness crept in, apple crumble became a mainstay pudding at family ‘Sunday dinners’. Like many other experiences, such as running around like a lunatic, kicking up the crisp leaves in the back yard – something I may or may not still do – Sunday dinners were quite the novelty. It wasn’t lunch, yet at 4pm it wasn’t quite ‘dinner’ yet either. Completely baffling. However, the ensuring pudding of apple crumble (occasionally interchanged with pie or the inherently classic  Victoria Sponge) was more than baffling, it was a pure shock. It. Wasn’t. Crumble. Surely castor sugar, flour, a dash of milk and butter did not equate to crumble topping? Turns out that one particular sixteen year old did not know her crumbles as well as she thought she did – there was, would you believe, more than one type. Continue reading →

  Posted in Desserts | Tagged Apple, Crumble, Maple Syrup, Pecan, Rolled oats
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  Panforte

  Posted at 7:54 pm by tastewithoutwaste

  Feb 17th

  Raising the question “what should I bake?” is a dangerous task at the best of times. It puts one in a particularly perilous position. What if one actually doesn’t want to make what is suggested, and in some cases demanded (I’m looking at you here, little sis)? You’d think I’d have learned by now. Hmph. Not the case. My younger sister’s response is often obscure, vague, or difficult and downright complicated to make. In her world of baked goods time-frames and effort required don’t exist. Dad’s tends to border on predictable, if not repetitive. Old favourites such as Bran Muffins or Zucchini Bread. The Brampton ‘classics’. When I raised the question with S and B mid last week I honestly didn’t know what response to expect. Conventional? Complicated? Kooky? Where does the Italian ‘cake’ Panforte sit? Somewhere amongst all three. Continue reading →

  Posted in Desserts | Tagged Chocolate, Dried Fruit, Nuts

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  Hullo! I'm Shani. Thanks for stopping by! Here you'll find vegetarian recipes oriented towards balancing that fickle line between supreme indulgence and wholesome eating. There's also many a musing about food waste (and it's many manifestations), with tips on how to reduce it at a household level. To find out more, hit the 'About' tab in the top menu...