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Salted caramel Heaven

My latest favourite flavour is salted caramel- but served with chocolate (in the form of cake, dark chocolate, dessert).  I love how the sweetness from the caramel is cut by the sprinkle of salt- and it’s even better if there are little granules of salt dancing around on your tongue in the end – a real treat of flavours for me!

However I find that not many places that sell this yummy delicacy  get the balance just right – it’s sometimes too sweet and lacking the essential saltiness that is promised. It ain’t salted caramel if it ain’t got salt! I am always on the hunt for *real* salted caramel and so when I came across this recipe online I instantly decided to try it. It was not one of those that you make a mental note of trying “one day”. I kept an open tab opened in my browser (a sure way to motivate me to take action – open tabs mean open actions and I love getting things done so this was a good approach!)

Anyway, the recipe was fairly easy, the only real tricky bit being the salted caramel sauce – which can easily sieze up or burn or stick! But fortunately this turned out great and so the baking was a success. The taste even better!

  Dark Chocolate & Salted Caramel Cookies

I used rock salt (with large granules as I wanted to feel the crunch when you bite into a cookie) but what I learn though is that fairly quickly, the salt dissolves and though the caramel does soak it up (and is not as sickly sweet), you do miss the crunchy salt that is promised! So I quickly fixed it by sprinkling more rock salt over before serving. Salted caramel is saved. But I do understand now what happens when you buy salted caramel goodies from a store- it’s natural that the salt is absorbed and it’s not always so easy to fix, so they are forgiven!

Meanwhile I am in salted caramel heaven as I tried other recipes with my salted caramel sauce. I  gave a traditional Turkish dessert – sutlac (rice pudding) a facelift with my delicious sauce. Stay tuned for more!

Baking like a hero,
M4Life

Posh veggies for dinner



I love watching cooking shows and I often hear certain phrases or ingredients that seem to stick in my mind, especially when the contestants describe their scrummy looking dishes with vivid vocabularly!

One such example is a description of a dish where it is served  “… on a bed of celeriac purée ..” Just sounds so exotic! I guess I must talk about it a lot too- as the other day the hubby went out to the store (sorry not the local market…this time) and brought me a medium sized sandy little vegetable and proudly presented it to me as “celeriac as you hear your favourite posh people make!”  (he’s so embarrassing!)
 
Celeriac Two Ways

Nonetheless, I was intrigued and so I googled some ideas and found two great recipes to make that day for dinner. I even made a little for my baby as mash (the celeriac puree!) as it’s texture lends itself to lovely and smooth for little mouths 🙂

 
So here is my recipe for celeriac two ways… quite yummy and works great as a side.
 
Posted recipe on @halaalrecipes 
#whatsfordinner  #celeriac #masterchef 
 
Creating in the kitchen,
M4life