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Pear, vanilla and mint iced green tea

20/5/2015

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Pear, Vanilla and Mint Iced Green Tea Recipe
I know the weather is not exactly suited for iced tea at the moment (all of the rain...), but I do enjoy a nice glass of iced tea whatever the season is. Last week, I made those delicious pears Belle Hélène and had a lot of poaching liquid leftover. I am not one to discard such a flavoursome thing as this (the Madagascan vanilla is way too precious) so I decided to turn it into a pear and vanilla syrup.
I really wanted to make a drink out of it. At first, I thought about just throwing in a bit of soda water and ice cubes with the syrup for a quick refreshing drink but I thought the syrup deserved a bit more attention.

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Pears Belle Hélène with tonka chocolate sauce

14/5/2015

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Pears Belle Hélène with Tonka Chocolate Sauce Recipe
I love a delicious buttery pear. And more than this, I adore a delicious poached pear with a dark chocolate sauce poured over it. This is called Poire Belle Hélène in France and is meant to have been created by Auguste Escoffier around 1864. It consists of peeled pears poached in a delicious syrup then served with a hot chocolate sauce and most times with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on its side. It is really a dessert I love for its simplicity and wonderful flavours. I wish I found it more often on restaurant menus because then I am sure I would order dessert instead of usually skipping it.

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Visiting England: London in the springtime

5/5/2015

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London City Guide - Meringue Girls at Broadway Market
As I mentioned recently with the engagement photo shoot of two lovely people, I was in London in March for various photography contracts. The work kept me busy most of the week and I tried to fit in little visits here and there and most of them were food related, really not a bad complaint!
E. had joined along for the trip as I had gotten him the flights as a birthday present and he could spend the week catching up with friends who live in London. We managed to fit in some lovely dinners and lunches, and even spent a whole day together visiting different parts of the city we wanted to see.
That day together we visited the Imperial War Museum and I got to see the fantastic Fashion on the Ration exhibit that my friend Ruth had mentioned in a previous blog post. If you are in London before the end of August, I highly recommend a trip there!
Now for the food parts, let me give you a list of the places I tried.

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