January 10, 2008 at 5:00 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: cake, chocolate, cooking, Nigella Lawson
The cake is cooked. I’ll post photos later, probably tomorrow. But it’s so far, so good. The cake didn’t rise as much as I’d expected, and the furrow looks more like a disjointed earthquake, but it’s got that definitely home-made, old-fashioned cake look. My loaf pan is probably a wee bit bigger than suggested in the recipe (see Not Quite Nigella), but the next size down pan I own is way too small.
The recipe is dead easy to follow and prepare, even without a food processor. The chocolate syrup is awfully easy to cook. I’m not sure if I’ll bother decorating the cake with shards of broken chocolate, I may opt to dust with vanilla dusting sugar (thus making it only a Triple Chocolate Loaf Cake).
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January 10, 2008 at 3:56 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: cooking, food, pasta, vegetarian
We had plenty of sauce left over, and the taste had mellowed and improved over the days since it was first cooked. I’d picked up a packet of Latina’s new variety of fresh pasta – the wholemeal spinach and ricotta ravioli. My partner and I were curious to see how well the wholemeal version would taste. It was scrumptious. And we had some of that left over too, to which I added some cooked wholemeal spiral pasta. Mixed it in with the sauce, made a nice, thick cheese sauce which was poured over the top. Topped with grated cheese and slid it into an oven to bake for half an hour until the topping was all golden brown.
Utterly delightful!
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January 10, 2008 at 3:52 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: cake, chocolate, cooking, Nigella Lawson
I watched Nigella Lawson’s Feast last night on ABC-TV. It was the episode featuring a gorgeous and quick mushroom pasta bake AND a decadently, divine and delightful Quadruple Chocolate Cake!
Just watching Nigella prepare and bake the cake filled me with inspiration and set my mouth to water. I wanted some!
I didn’t take notes during the show, and as I don’t yet have a copy of Feast, I went scouring the internet this morning for the recipe. I’d like to thank Not Quite Nigella for her her most wonderful site! As I type, the cake is in the oven baking. It smells gorgeous!
I opted to use natural, home made yogurt instead of sour cream (because it’s healthier) (like that really matters with this much chocolate??). But otherwise pretty much stuck to the recipe. Except I beat the mixture by hand, not having a food processor. I can’t quite justify buying a processor as I don’t do a lot of baking of cakes, and I’m happy to slice my vegetables with a knife.
I’m going to assume the cake turns out well … I’ll let you know later today. 
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