Pecan Praline Ice Cream & Salty Honey Sauce
Dear Ice Cream, How the hell are you, my creamy friend? Gosh, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write, but you know how things are. One minute the whole internet is shaming you into doing a…
Baby Babas with Earl Grey Syrup
‘It is the night, my body’s weak. I’m on the run, no time to sleep. I’ve got to ride, ride like the wind, to be free again.’ – Ride Like the Wind by Christopher Cross (song) That line…
Home Made Pierogies
If there’s one thing I deeply love, it’s Eastern European food. I love the cold, you see, and with the cold comes the rib-sticking, delicious, buttery delights of the kitchen. Hungarian goulash. Vareniki. Pirozhkis. Borscht. Khachapuri. Cabbage rolls….
Rachel Khoo’s My Little French Kitchen; A Review
IF you are a tragic francophile like me, then please let me introduce you to your next source of travel porn; “My Little French Kitchen”, by Rachel Khoo. You may already know Khoo from her original book The…
The BZT
Please meet my greatest sandwich invention to date. The BZT. The BZT is a sandwich of great beauty and deliciousness. It is salty, zingy, rich, fresh and awesome, all in equal measures. It’s also pretty fancy, if I…
Pauper’s Toast with Ginger Ganache
Remember what I said about a time of restraint? And how it was all so I could continue to roll out the good stuff here on The Sugar Hit? Well, medames and messieurs, meet The Good Stuff. Because…
Black Plum Compote with Vanilla & Honey
Stone fruits are without a doubt my most favourite members of the fruit family. Peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, cherries and all the crazy hybrids in between: luscious. There is no more decadent food eating experience in my mind,…
Rich Cream Biscuits & Coffee
This is about as down home as breakfast can get. And about as perfect. Fresh, buttery flaky biscuits, first thing in the morning? Yes. That’s what I want the morning to be like in my house all the…
The Leftover Hungover Sandwich
Happy New Year everybody! It’s New Year’s Day where I’m sitting right now, and the sun is shining, and I suddenly feel like I’m talking like a radio presenter? I’ll stop that now. Nevertheless, it is the first…
Leftover Christmas Pudding Strudel with Salted Caramel Rum Butter
aaaaaand we’re back! I took a lil’ break there, did you notice? Well, I’m back, and I’m writing this on one of those last golden days between when the Holidays are officially over, and before New Years Eve….