This week’s post started when my younger son spotted the remaining dark chocolate with a hint of sea salt sailboats, which I had made for their father last week, sitting next to the bowl of slightly bland, but beautifully baked rolls I had made for dinner, the night before.

He picked up a sailboat and a roll, stuck a thumb into the roll, and finessed the “mast” of the sailboat into the doughy centre.  A quick warm in the oven to melt the chocolate: et Voila!

“Sorta like one of those, what do you call them, a pain au chocolat?  Really Mum, I’m just using up the leftovers.”

Absolutely, he is. [Read more…]