{"id":364,"date":"2010-11-21T22:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2010-11-22T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T09:42:23","slug":"finishing-touches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Finishing touches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago I made carrot cakes from this cupcake book:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cupcakes-Primrose-Bakery-Martha-Swift\/dp\/1856268470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cupcakes_book-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cupcakes_book\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cupcakes_book-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cupcakes_book.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was going to serve them with a pile of whipped double cream but it was suggested that I used a more tangy topping such as cream cheese frosting.  These are the quantities I used, which I found to make enough for about 24 cupcakes:<br \/>\n100 g butter<br \/>\n200 g cream cheese<br \/>\n500 g icing sugar <\/p>\n<p>Tonight I made baked lobster tails using <a href='http:\/\/www.lobsterhelp.com\/baking-lobster-tails.html' >this<\/a> as guidance except that my marinade was simply butter and lemon juice.  12 minutes at 200 worked pretty well.  Anyway, I served the tails with a salad and an approximation of ponzu dressing, which I first had at my in-laws&#8217; who bought it from Waitrose:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waitrosedeliver.com\/wdeliver\/servlet\/JSPs\/shop\/display_ind_fs.jsp?line_number=739236&amp;prrfnbr=332929\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ponzu.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ponzu\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ponzu.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ponzu-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I attempted to recreate the taste from memory.  I knew there was an orange flavour, a fermented flavour and acid which is usual for a dressing.  So I combined the juice of a tangerine, rice wine vinegar, dark soy sauce and light brown sugar.  I wasn&#8217;t too far off if my memory serves me well but having checked the ingredients list on the Waitrose website it seems that I was quite far off the mark.  Still, mine was a very tasty dressing.  I don&#8217;t think Heston has anything to worry about just yet though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago I made carrot cakes from this cupcake book: I was going to serve them with a pile of whipped double cream but it was suggested that I used a more tangy topping such as cream cheese frosting. These are the quantities I used, which I found to make enough for about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}