green apple sorbet

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 – […]

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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 […]

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Soseki

11 August 2010

Last night I went to Soseki, a Japanese restaurant at the foot of the Gherkin (the tower not the edible variety). The food was unbelievable and the decor absolutely beautiful. From the outside there is no indication of the gem that lies within, but climbing the stairs up from the matcha café (where we enjoyed pre-dinner […]

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scrumptious gingerbread cake

28 July 2010

I concocted this recipe from a few different sources. I loved the idea of using stem ginger in syrup, and also wanted to incorporate that most old-fashioned of ingredients, black treacle. Plus some golden syrup. And molasses sugar. And then some crystallised ginger to top it off. Y’know, just in case it wasn’t already sweet […]

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beeautiful

17 July 2010

This afternoon I’m going to a housewarming party. A barbecue actually – although it feels like tempting fate to mention that out loud, in case it rains. My friend loves bees, so I’m taking her these chocolate cakes. I was going to attempt Nigella’s Honey Chocolate Cake, but the lure of the cupcake became too […]