Not-so-Sweet Solitude, and Lemon & Sage Sorbet
A few days in Florence, and my favourite sorbet of the year
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Sardinia with Small Kids
Day trips to remember
Strawberry & Mascarpone Gelato, and Some Life Lessons
Light, Shade & Pink Gelato
Ajo Blanco with Cherry & Mint Salsa
What to eat when it's hotter than Hades
Spaghetti alla Vongole for Valentine’s
Staying in Tonight
Orange Juice, Olive Oil & Ricotta Breakfast Cake
Cake for breakfast forever
Cake or Death
Uplifting Lemon Cake & The Saint's First Brush with Mortality
Chicken Liver & Caper Crostini
Let's go to Tuscany this winter
Creamy Potato Gratin with Taleggio, Nutmeg and Marjoram
Early December calls for potatoes, cream and cheese
A Big Spinach Potato Pie, and feeding Toddlers
Tears and small triumphs
Mahalabia, Medleys & Milk Pudding
Peace in a Pudding
Agostino, Andros & Gemista
Some Sicilian highlights
Panelle, Palermo, and Anna Tasca Lanza
Some Sicilian highlights
An Alphabet for August, Demerara & Mascarpone Banana Bread
Banana custard in loaf form
Around Santu Lussurgiu
Secret waterfalls and Mountain Cattle
Blackberry Ricotta Gelato
Mini Milk meets Bramble Bush
On Children’s Parties
How not to cater your own party..
Porth en Alls & Dreams of Clotted Cream
Cornish holidays, family and food
Pavlova with lemon-olive oil curd
– serves 8-10 – A perfect late spring/early summer pudding, which plays on quintessential Italian flavours. Unlike the traditional (and often overly sweet) pavlova, I p
Melon, lemon and basil sorbet
– serves 6 – The delicate, almost ethereal sweetness of melon works beautifully when sharpened by plentiful fresh lemon juice and enhanced by fragrant basil. Playing on
Lemon and courgette carbonara
– serves 2 – When I talk about a dish as a ‘carbonara’, I mean the method of creating a creamy pasta sauce with eggs that are cooked just enough to emulsify and thi
Beat Until Pale & Fluffy (Torta Mimosa)
I love this recipe direction, which you read at the beginning of the method of making almost any cake. I currently feel like I have been beaten heavily until I am pale and fluffy,
Welsh Cakes (again)
St David’s day today, and my little welsh quarter is feeling nostalgic and hungry for buttery bakey things. I even managed to plant some daffodil bulbs and they have flowered
