A marriage made in heaven – Peach Melba Tart. Two heritage dishes come together in this peach melba tart with Courvoisier cream, a delicious and easy dessert that can be made almost entirely from store cupboard ingredients. The lynch-pin is Opies Peaches in Courvoisier – something I keep on hand in the larder because straight […]
Cheers to Furleigh Estate Wines
Dorset Sparkling Wine from Furleigh Wines. Are you as excited about the rise of English fizz as I am? I’ve become a big fan in recent years. It seems that lots of us are at long last appreciating the finesse of our home-grown wines. Maybe it’s our great terroir, maybe it’s climate change. But English […]
Pancake recipe for one or two
Easy Pancake Recipe for One or Two. I love pancakes, so whether or not it happens to be Shrove Tuesday, it doesn’t take much to get me battering up and making pancakes just for myself. So, when a supermarket approached me and asked me to explain how to make pancakes from scratch, I jumped at […]
5:2 Diet Recipes – Three Ingredient Banana Pancakes.
5:2 Diet Recipe for Three Ingredient Banana Pancakes: Hurrah! I’ve actually hit my target weight (60kg) through the 5:2 diet and am now theoretically maintaining by doing a mixture of one fast day a week and something called 16:8 where I eat within an eight-hour window. But, it’s Christmas and I’m fully anticipating gaining a […]
Panettone Bread and Butter Pudding – A Sinful Leftovers Treat
Ultimate Comfort Food – Panettone Bread and Butter Pudding. One of those superbly easy yet beautifully comforting dishes – once you’ve tried my Panettone Bread and Butter pudding I know you’ll want to make it again and again. Do you like LOVE bread and butter pudding? For me, it’s one of the ultimate comfort foods, ridiculously […]
Basic Chocolate Mousse
Basic Chocolate Mousse – Ultimate Decadence and Unbelievable Simplicity: Easy recipes – those with one or two ingredients – are ultra hip at the moment. I’ve already written posts about one ingredient banana ice-cream, three ingredient pancakes and a whole range of simple soup recipes. And, while I haven’t yet posted them, I’ve been trying […]
Apple Roses with Sabayon
Easy Apple Roses and Sherry Sabayon: It’s Sherry Week and I’ve been sent a bottle of sherry to sample and match with some food. Until the bottle arrived, I had no idea what I would cook – there’s a huge variety of sherries – from bone dry Amontillados through to rich treacly Pedro Ximénez. So of […]
The Perfect Tarte Tatin – and the cheat recipe!
Professional Tarte Tatin from Galvin Brothers vs the cheat version: Earlier this year I was invited to take part in a competition to make the perfect Tarte Tatin. Unfortunately, I was in France at the time, but one of my friends did take part – and amazingly, he won! Ed Benson (who I’ve known for […]
Normal for Norfolk – A Recipe for Norfolk Treacle Tart
Memories of a Norfolk Childhood – and Treacle Tart from Norfolk: I can’t honestly lay claim to being from ‘anywhere’. By the time I was eight years old, I’d moved house 20 times and been to 10 different schools. Born before my father had qualified as a doctor, I spent the first two years of […]
A Simple Cranachan Dessert
Cranachan Made Simple: I’ve made cranachan for years, but, while the recipe was never quite the same from meal to meal, it wasn’t until I came across a recipe for ‘Cranachan Trifle‘ from BBC Good Food that I tried sweetening the toasted oats, making a kind of granola, rather than adding a lot more honey […]