Monday Morsel: Trifle! Treacle!

Trifle!

Treacle!

Both trifle and treacle are traditionally English. Since I'm winding up my mini-excursion to England, I feel it mandatory to mention them. Trifle recipes vary in colors, textures, and flavors. Choices abound which is why I didn't include a specific link to any specific trifle recipe. I liked them all! Treacle is a sugar syrup and recipes that include treacle include puddings, tarts, puddings and more tarts. Again, way too many to list or suggest. I'd love them all. Perhaps you have a trifle or treacle recipe you insist is the best...?

I leave you with a lovely photo of  a Treacle Pudding:

Monday Morsel: England's New MasterChef 2012

Meet Shelina Permalloo. The newspapers in England are trying to make it seem like Nigella Lawson better look-out as there is a new "domestic goddess" in the country and her name is Shelina Permaloo. She's 29, unpretentious, loves mangoes and is the winner of BBC1's 2012 MasterChef. I think I'd like her.

Her website has just a very few recipes as of now. She looks like quite a promising novice. Here is a refreshing "dessert" drink recipe she created for her mum:

http://shelinapermalloo.com/recipes/belle-mare/

Monday Morsel: England's Best-Loved Baker

Given how I love desserts and England (at least the idea of England as have only ever been to Heathrow) -- it just doesn't seem right I didn't know all about England's "best-loved baker," Mary Berry. I feel like I've let my anglophile-ness down a bit because I only just learned about her. This website link below offers an arsenal of her recipes. Yes, she has her very own website, too, but I find the one below more visually appealing. Get to know Mary Berry! Or, have you heard of her already? Do tell.

http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/mary-berry

Monday Morsel: English Desserts, Digestive Biscuits

In honor of the upcoming Olympics in England, I'm sharing some Monday Morsels that will focus on chefs and dessert recipes from England for the next few weeks. Chocolate Fridge Cake from Jamie Oliver looks very English and refrigerator-cool. I've not tried it, but I love that the recipe includes "digestive biscuits."  The mere mention of "digestive biscuits" makes me feel like I'm eating something healthy, even though I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Here's the recipe:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chocolate-recipes/chocolate-fridge-cake