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I was in an Italian mood tonight. I made a fresh batch of Bolognese ragu as the freezer was bare (it’s almost unknown for my freezer not to contain at least one portion of homemade ragu) and I then decided to make myself some zabaione for dessert. Well, it is Sunday and Sunday deserves dessert! […]
Read MoreI haven’t made this for years but I had some bread past its best and the remains of a brioche loaf from the weekend that needed using up and I suddenly, on a whim, decided to make bread pudding for the blog. Bread pudding is a cross between a cake and a pudding. Indeed, in […]
Read MoreIt was lovely to have my daughter Nicola down for the weekend from Birmingham. It was just the two of us for supper on Saturday night and I cooked the wonderful chicken with clementines and fennel for her and also a new version of the yoghurt-based panna cotta I made last weekend. Although we all […]
Read MoreI’m not a breakfast person. I always eat breakfast; in fact I can’t function without food to ‘break my fast’ in the morning, but it’s a simple bowl of muesli or granola with fruit and yoghurt and then I like to have coffee a little later, and maybe a pastry with it if my willpower […]
Read MoreI wanted to cook the Roasted Chicken with Clementines & Fennel again tonight with Jonathan and Lyndsey coming for supper so I decided it was a good idea to look in Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem book for a dessert too. I ended up combining two recipes: a set yoghurt pudding – a kind of yogurt cotto instead of panna cotta […]
Read MoreI rarely bake, as I’ve said before, but four sorrowful and browning bananas were looking at me from a fruit bowl and I felt I should do something with them. I don’t like eating very ripe bananas and back in the day when I was a young mum and my kids were coming home from […]
Read MoreI’ve eaten a lot of lovely but rich Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and mince pies, not to mention panettone and chocolate truffles, over the past week so I decided on a simple apple pie to serve after the Roast Lamb Stuffed with Fresh Herbs last night. I’ve always loved apple desserts of any kind: Tarte […]
Read MoreYes I know it’s Boxing Day and Christmas is in its last stages but I hope you’ll forgive me only just getting to this post: Christmas started for me on the Eve (when the mince pies were made) and a family meal in my house with daughter, son and daughter-in-law; then Christmas Day saw daughter […]
Read MoreWhat are two girls supposed to do late on a Sunday afternoon when there’s an open jar of lumpfish caviar in the fridge and half a carton of soured cream left over from the birthday party the night before? Rush into the supermarket five minutes before closing and buy some more smoked salmon and blinis. […]
Read MoreYes, I know I frequently tell you that I don’t bake cakes … or very rarely … but there’s a story here, I promise you. Well, two stories … and about the same cake. I’ve written about the lovely times I’ve had visiting my friends Linda and George in Spain. A number of times Linda […]
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