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    Salted chocolate, hazelnut & Rye cookies

    There’s something about these, the toasted hazelnut and dark chocolate is just…. yum. The rye flour is a lovely flavour, and texture becomes almost fudgey… but it could be made more so, I’m sure.  A little white flour in place of some rye, perhaps, a touch more butter even, which may even help them to relax into a less golf ball shape. I’m rather taken with them… Ugly though they are. However, I’ve thrown this batch out and didn’t think twice about it.  The salt is just too much. It needs halving, at least.  Tempted to try again tomorrow… From…

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    Cauliflower Soup & Toasted hazelnuts

    Certainly a nice, simple soup with plenty of depth of flavour, though not totally blown away by it.  I felt the need to add a dash of hot sauce and would do so again. Very good, but I would possibly chose other soups in preference. The toasted hazelnuts splashed with oil and salted, are a delight, so much so that I had more than eaten my portion of them long before it was time to plate up and felt the need to sadly deprive myself of them as a garnish in the soup itself.  Oh well. From KD 2, pg.…