For many years, our family cake has been the chocolate-almond one from Elizabeth David’s French Provincial Cooking, the one that calls for melted chocolate, ground almonds, butter, sugar, and not much else.
Black Velvet: Pour Guinness into pint-glass, top up with the same volume of dry fizzy white - champagne if pos. Drink with Claudia/Nancy's fabulous cake.
Thanks for the reminder, Lisa. I did make something similar a few years ago, only it memory serves me it was a pie. Maybe Darina puts her stew into a pie too?
Save the stout until Christmas-time in a refrigerator or cold pantry and use it to make Guinness stout ginger cake -- Claudia Fleming's recipe is brilliant, calling for three types of ginger: fresh, powdered, and candied.
Looks nice and simple, which for me means no special equipment required.
You could use a Guiness to make that risotto ala birra that we ate in Italian rice country, and that I included in my Rice book. So delish. What do you think?
I think that's a great idea. And a nice way to use up another bottle of Guinness from my six-pack. Come down and share it--no, no, don't, you might end up in isolation. I will bring the risotto to you--and stay for a while!
Ciao cara Nancy, Buona Pasqua a te! This cake looks delicious. Apologies for my ignorance but can you pls tell me what "unsweetened" chocolate chips are? I have never seen them here in Toscana, and in most of Italia we have the Perugina chocolate chips but those are semi-sweet chocolate. What would you buy if in the States? Grazie mille, con un abbraccio.
Sounds good to me! No cream cheese icing for me either...I've got a few recipes that I've never gotten around to making that include Guinness and now I've got one more! Time to start playing around. The Guinness family funding the building of our Lions Gate Bridge which was opened in 1938.
What to do with the extra Guinness? Darina Allen's beef and Guinness stew! Most savory and delicious.
Black Velvet: Pour Guinness into pint-glass, top up with the same volume of dry fizzy white - champagne if pos. Drink with Claudia/Nancy's fabulous cake.
What a splendid idea!
Steak and Guinness pie came to mind immediately!
Thanks for the reminder, Lisa. I did make something similar a few years ago, only it memory serves me it was a pie. Maybe Darina puts her stew into a pie too?
oh for sure there is a pie somewhere. this is the stew https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/recipe-beef-guinness-stew/
Oh man! I wish I could eat that!
Save the stout until Christmas-time in a refrigerator or cold pantry and use it to make Guinness stout ginger cake -- Claudia Fleming's recipe is brilliant, calling for three types of ginger: fresh, powdered, and candied.
Great idea, Zora, thank you!
Looks nice and simple, which for me means no special equipment required.
You could use a Guiness to make that risotto ala birra that we ate in Italian rice country, and that I included in my Rice book. So delish. What do you think?
I think that's a great idea. And a nice way to use up another bottle of Guinness from my six-pack. Come down and share it--no, no, don't, you might end up in isolation. I will bring the risotto to you--and stay for a while!
This is my kind of cake!
Ciao cara Nancy, Buona Pasqua a te! This cake looks delicious. Apologies for my ignorance but can you pls tell me what "unsweetened" chocolate chips are? I have never seen them here in Toscana, and in most of Italia we have the Perugina chocolate chips but those are semi-sweet chocolate. What would you buy if in the States? Grazie mille, con un abbraccio.
Sounds good to me! No cream cheese icing for me either...I've got a few recipes that I've never gotten around to making that include Guinness and now I've got one more! Time to start playing around. The Guinness family funding the building of our Lions Gate Bridge which was opened in 1938.
Nancy, it is in the oven right this minute! The leftover Guinness will no doubt be consumed, but not by me. Thanks for your take on it!
Happy St. Patrick's Day, dear Nancy! Let us celebrate with a flourish. xo