Archives for the ‘Dessert’ Category

Mash up II at the Loft

By rkhooks • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Cake, Dessert, Drinks, Fish, Food, Food events, Going out, Music, Salad, Savoury, Sweets, culinary events, london

On Wednesday 24th June 2009 I took over the Loft for another mouth-watering mash up. For the 5 course dinner I concocted a menu inspired by all things delicious in the garden.
T. Baas created a luscious table with his green garden illustrations and Jay-P accompanied the dinner with some toothsome tunes.
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Rose ricotta clouds with strawberries

By rkhooks • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Cake, Dessert, Going out, Music

Where have I disappeared to? Well this kept me busy, then was the opening of this (where I’m now putting my culinary expertise to good use), I now also teach French pâtisserie classes regularly here too, plus testing loads of bagel and doughnut (spot the dougnuts in the photos I’ve been testing them out on [...]



Mouth watering Mash up I at the Loft

By rkhooks • Apr 15th, 2009 • Category: Biscuits, Bread, Chocolate, Dessert, Fish, Food events, Going out, Music, Savoury, Sweets, culinary events, london

After ‘khooking’ up a storm for the past several years in Paris I went back to my London roots with a mouth-watering “mash up” meal on
The unique dinner showcased a range of tasty ideas using food, music and the arts as forms of expression. For this scrumptious supper, I combined far Eastern flavours from PikPikZoo, [...]



Mooncake madness

By rkhooks • Apr 6th, 2009 • Category: Dessert, Going out, La Cocotte, Paris

Recently my place has been turned into a test kitchen for all things mooncake related in preparation for my class this Wednesday. I had made them a while ago but I’m now trying to perfect my snowskin recipe, mooncake technique and find some flavoursome fillings. If you’ve never heard of snowskin mooncakes. Here’s a quick [...]



Plum & rosemary custard tartelettes

By rkhooks • Mar 22nd, 2009 • Category: Dessert, Food

General feeling at the moment is “all talk no action” with the amount of meetings I seem to be going to. So it was with relief I got back in the kitchen on Thursday to bake a few cakes for a photoshoot the following day with Bread & shutter (London based photographer). London is just [...]