A slightly different take on Pesto.

Jamie Oliver again.

Florian loves his pesto, but the traditional one, the basil, roasted pine nuts, parmesan, garlic and olive oil pesto. Actually once, when he made it himself and added far too much garlic, it was one of the best ones ever.

But today I tried something that Mr Chav calls ” Sicilian pesto”, it would be worth asking Michele what he makes of it.

No expensive pine nuts, almonds instead, some basil, parmesan, garlic, chillies- the red ones and…tomatoes. Lots of olive oil as usual, seasoning and blitz to a nice paste. It was surprisingly good, but  not as awesome as the traditional basil pesto.

But still, let’s have it…

Eggless tiramisu with a twist.

The idea is Jamie Oliver’s. Nice and quick and eggless. And with no coffee. So perhaps the only common thing with tiramisu is mascarpone, that I mixed with some milk, a tea spoon of vanilla paste ( what an awesome invention!) and some icing sugar. It went onto the biscuits soaked in… orange juice. Jamie recommends orange juice as well as some limoncello, that I happen to dislike, it reminds me of washing up liquid.

On top the cheese I put some raspberries and lots of chocolate flakes to disguise the taste of January raspberries. And some icing sugar on top.

The first dessert ever to be served in the dishes I got from my Mum for Christmas.