Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
You might say we didn’t need another Italian gelateria in Richmond because after all we have the wonderful Gelateria Danieli, widely acclaimed as one of the best in London, and then we have Rome’s most famous tiramisu available to us at Pompi. But then as someone who can’t spend a day in Italy without having […]
Read MoreThe weather may have been too bad for a barbecue last night – hence my roasting the lamb with that wonderful stuffing – but it’s never too bad for ice cream. I’m sure you’ve gathered by now that I’m a big ice cream addict and buying the ice-cream maker a couple of years ago was […]
Read MoreDo you like brandy butter or brandy sauce with your Christmas pudding and mince pies? I’ve always liked brandy sauce with the pudding but love spreading brandy butter on mince pies. But how about brandy ice cream? I went a bit all-out yesterday with Jonathan and Lyndsey coming round for a meal in the evening, […]
Read MoreAfter a day in Kent with family yesterday and deciding to go to the opening of Ruben’s Refettorio with Jonathan and Lyndsey for pizza in the evening, I thought I’d make a quick ice cream for us to have after. I assumed – wrongly as it turned out – that as Igor was opening the […]
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 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 […]
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