green apple sorbet

chocolate and cherry blackforest trifle

14 December 2011

I have been (quietly) obsessing over trifle for ages, in particular Nigella’s chocolate cherry variant. Last weekend I finally got round to making it – well, a version of it – and it was such a roaring success I thought it was worth sharing. The original contains a plethora of ingredients, including cherry jam, cherry [...]

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French apple tart

2 November 2011

I think we can all agree that I have been shockingly bad at updating this site of late. But we don’t need to dwell on it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that…if indeed anyone actually noticed. I should probably orchestrate some kind of ‘relaunch’ to mark the occasion, but instead I’m giving [...]

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supper for seven

10 May 2011

A group of friends and I have a sort of informal supper club going. You know the kind of thing…every month or so we exchange emails and texts in a frenzy of diarising and subsequently convene at someone’s abode for a home-cooked feast. The host plays chef and everyone else supplies bottles, after-dinner chocs and [...]

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piste again

22 March 2011

I’m just back from a fantastic week’s skiing in La Plagne in the French Alps. Great company, fresh powder, blue skies…bliss. The chalet I stayed in was wonderful and I can’t recommend the company that owns it, Ski La Source, highly enough – they really pulled out all the stops to make sure we had [...]

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peanut butter cookies

21 January 2011

I wasn’t necessarily intending to feature these here. I made them on a whim yesterday because I had a friend coming over for tea and found my cupboards sadly lacking in biscuits but fortuitously full of jars of peanut butter (three to be exact). I’ve never been a huge fan of peanut butter – how [...]

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nuts for new year

30 December 2010

Make a batch of these to accompany your champagne tomorrow night – and then resist the urge to scoff them all before the clock strikes twelve… It’s worth bumping up the quantities if you have a few guests joining you; the cayenne-maple syrup combo makes them incredibly moreish and they are sure to disappear in [...]

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forget christmas pudding, try christmas pudding VODKA!

23 December 2010

Yes yes, I know I’ve been AWOL for aaaaages… But by way of making some small reparation, I would like to offer you this stunning recipe. I only wish I could give you a bottle of the stuff. It’s fun, festive and ferociously alcoholic. I noticed this in the MasterChef Live showguide back in November [...]

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dinkel-what?

14 October 2010

Green apple sorbet is back! After a wonderful month of travelling and gathering culinary inspiration, I’m excited to return to the kitchen and try out some new ideas. First up, a recipe I learned from my beautiful friend in Melbourne. This is possibly the simplest bread ever – no kneading or proving required – and [...]

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rock stars

17 August 2010

This recipe is a winner, capitalising on the blissful culinary marriage of cherries and coconut. Serve these beauties with a cup of tea on a weekend afternoon whilst the rain taps merrily against the window. August in England…can’t beat it. Coconut and Cherry Rock Cakes 2 cups self-raising flour 100g cold butter 0.5 cup soft [...]

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stuffed courgette flowers

12 August 2010

The flowers on my courgette plants this morning were so enticing that it would have been just plain wasteful not to turn them into edible delicacies. A quick search on google turned up a variety of possible recipes, all of which involved stuffing the flowers with a cheese and herb mixture of one kind or [...]