It is my Son Stephen’s 24th Birthday and as is always the tradition he always comes home for a very special dinner and as usual because of Stephen’s Nonna being Italian I always try to stick to traditional Italian dishes and tonights dinner was no exception. We started with gorgeous…
Plum Crumble
Autumn has arrived, the sun is weaker, the mornings and evenings have turned chillier and the leaves on the tree’s are starting to turn. I love the seasons, I love how everything changes and the joys that each season bring. Autumn for me is a time of foraging and harvesting,…
Baked Apples
I don’t think you can really call this a recipe as such, its not complicated, there are no rules or real measurements required, Luca and I just added loads and loads of muscovado sugar and butter and baked, the result was scrumptious baked apples with a yummy caramel sauce. When…
Compost Crumble
We all have days when we fancy something sweet after dinner, a little treat, something comforting but you think that you don’t have anything in to make, you can’t be bothered to pop to the shops for the ingredients, so you don’t bother and then end up craving something sweet…
Blackcurrant Ripple Ice Cream
Its raining and gloomy and probably the last thing you are thinking about is making ice cream, but the Children are on Summer holidays and will need entertaining, so I think a movie day, cuddled up under duvets with homemade ice cream may be just what we need. We are…
Lemon Meringue Pie
We couldn’t have meringue week could we without this gorgeous classic and what a way to end the week. Lemon meringue pie has to be one of my favourite old fashioned desserts, but not one that I have ever tried to bake as Jasmine (Simon and Stephen’s Nonna) use to…
Orange Blossom and Almond Pavlova with Peaches
Welcome to the penultimate recipe in our ‘Mad Meringue Week’ and this one is a little beauty, a stunning combination of flavours and textures and from my favourite book ‘Love Bake Nourish’. I couldn’t go the whole week without creating one of Amber Roses gorgeous recipes for you all to…
Bitter Chocolate Meringue Tart
This ‘Mad Meringue Week’ has been a little harder than I had anticipated, there is only so many egg whites that a girl can whisk and only so much meringue you can eat, even if you do have a ridiculously sweet tooth like mine, but I do have to say that…
Strawberry and Black Pepper Meringue Kisses
Its day 4 of Mad Meringue Week here on Gelsomina’s Cucina and I hope you have been enjoying the recipes so far, todays is something a little simple, but simple does not mean tasteless, these little beauties are vibrant and full of the taste of summer. Still to come this…
