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Rice Pudding and Rice Pudding Ice Cream
The essence of rice pudding starts, for me, with the mind-set. A gloriously attractive proposition of sweet, milk, and rice. To some it’s the return of a phobic childhood nemesis, the demonic nursery...
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Hendricks Gin and Tonic Frozen Floral Fantasy Cocktail
A client rang to vent her frustration, she somehow knew I wouldn’t fail her with amused understanding. She had half prepared everything for ‘her wanna be chef’ to subsequently load, into an electric...
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Just Peachy. Peach pastries, peach ice cream, peaches bathed in a honey,...
Once upon a thyme, four rosy-cheeked, precocious little peaches were irksome and displeasing. They looked sad from their repressed sobbing and abandonment and like so many of us with wrinkly skin,...
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Spiced whole orange and almond cake, spiced orange segments and a decent doff...
Orange and almond cake, spiced orange segments with a decent doff of pumpkin spiced Cointreau cream The kitchen is usually gifted with a bowl of citrus and the glow of orange is fairly...
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Autumn Leaf Tuile
The Tuile Good Factor Todays spiel is about transience and tuile. No, not the ballet dancers ‘tu tu’ tulle, note the impish and careful placement of an ‘i’ which swiftly enables us to move on to an...
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Rosehip Ice cream and Rose Hip-to-Sip Cocktails
The hipsters guide to Rose Hip Ice Cream, Rose Hip and Pink peppercorn Ice Cream, Rose hip hip hurray I’m driving today mocktail, and a couple of Hip rose hip-to-sip martini’s ? Frankly it’s all...
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A Winter-Summer pudding, twelfth night, thirteenth night and a mulled wine...
A Winter-Summer pudding, twelfth night, thirteenth night and a mulled wine sorbet. So you are equipped, having been recently gifted with a cure-all-exfoliating-flannel, confident and braced against the...
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The candied cranberry crown jewels.
This post may contain nuts. I had tried to explain, and offer, a tasting of dried cranberries to our larger than life house keeping lady, with whom language is no barrier. Since we are regular...
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The kataifi ice cream heist
Not quite at the hyperventilating stage but my pulse certainly hastening by the moment. We were the final four of the foray, enjoying a late lunch, just before dessert arrived. This...
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Caramel bourbon drizzle: A fake-s-pear soliloquy for thanksgiving
To bourbon caramel, or not to bourbon caramel, that’s been the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous calories (to counterbalance misery making...
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