A marriage made in heaven – Peach Melba Tart. Two historic 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 [Ad]: 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 Aldi approached me to work with them and explain how to make pancakes from scratch, I […]
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
Celebrating Sherry Week with 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 […]
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 […]