Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
I’m still thinking Sicily (see my last post). Having reacquainted myself with the wonderful Sicily Unpacked programme on Wednesday evening, on DVD, with Nicola, I watched another episode the following night and saw Giorgio Locatelli and Andrew Graham-Dixon enter Giorgio’s favourite gelateria in Sicily in the baroque town of Noto. A town Nicola and I visited […]
Read MoreThe Single Gourmet Traveller has a rule whenever in Italy: she has to eat an ice cream at least once a day. I once spent 5 weeks in Rome and managed to eat gelato each day so it was no problem managing it in Venice in the past week when I was there for just […]
Read MoreWell, you may be asking, What is the Single Gourmet Traveller doing making ice cream after all that complaint of autumnal cold and wind and rain? But of course you know how I love ice cream and if you can imagine adding that warming, sweet and exotic spice called cinnamon to a scrumptious and delightfully decadent […]
Read MoreIt’s just over a week ago that we were in France and had a lovely meal at La Fine Fourchette in Falaise, Normandy. Jonathan’s dessert of apple sorbet, with some calvados poured over it, was so delicious I decided I’d try to recreate it when I got home. One of the things I particularly liked […]
Read MoreWhat could be more English than Apple Crumble? It’s one of my favourite puddings and certainly the one I cook more often than anything else. It’s a kind of default pudding on a Sunday evening when family come for supper; not because it’s easy, but because I love it so. I like my apples slightly […]
Read MoreIt was Olympic madness in Twickenham/Richmond yesterday – and today too. The cycle races are coming through so roads are closed, buses not running. The only solution if I wanted my usual favourite cup of coffee at Taylor St Baristas was to walk. Such is my dedication to drinking only wonderful coffee – and most […]
Read MoreI’m good at finding little excuses for a treat. First there was the buying of the new ice-cream maker and so, of course, it had to be tried out, and tried out again … and again. But then we had a small barbecue party a couple of Saturdays ago and while son Jonathan was preparing […]
Read MoreI wrote about Diana Henry’s lovely book, Crazy Water Pickled Lemons in a recent post and had been eyeing up her recipe for Lemon & Basil Ice Cream for a time. What gorgeous summery flavours! Just the thing for these occasional days of summer we’re getting and, I thought, a great dessert to follow the barbecue we […]
Read MoreSummer may be elusive but you catch a taste of it in my kitchen. I’m still excited by my new ice-cream maker and decided what I most wanted to make was a really good vanilla ice cream. The test for me of a good gelateria is how great their vanilla and chocolate flavours are. I […]
Read MoreIt must be all those trips to Italy that got me thinking ice cream (it certainly wasn’t the awful English weather!) … Rome in March, Venice in April … and it’s really hard to beat the Italians when it comes to ice cream. The fabulous Fassi in Rome; Gelateria San Stae in Venice. However, The […]
Read More