Its Day 3 and today I am only bringing you one recipe I am afraid, but it is a delicious one and one that is bang in season now, today I bring you gorgeous blackcurrant meringues!!! My fruit cage has been bursting with strawberries and now blackcurrant’s, I am a…
Pistachio and Rosewater Pavlova
So its day two of ‘Mad Meringue Week’, I hope you enjoyed yesterdays chocolate meringue whoppers and tip about keeping your bowl completely clean and grease free. Today I bring you some more tips on meringue making, I must admit that I have not yet tried this, it seems a…
Chocolate Meringue Whoppers
Hello and welcome to ‘Mad Meringue Week’, every day for the next seven days I will be bringing you a different recipe and flavour of meringue, why you may ask, my reply, ‘why not’! It is Summer after all and even though meringues are perfect any time of the year,…
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Homemade ice cream I have discovered is not that easy to make, firstly finding a recipe that doesn’t require an ice cream maker is hard enough, but finding a recipe that does not require the custard method to make it, is also just as difficult. I know that purists will…
Gypsy Tart
Stephen (My second to eldest Son) recently moved in with his lovely girlfriend Rieanna. Rieanna has become very easily a big part of our family, she just fitted in right from the start and we all love her to bits. They come over for dinner most weeks and the routine…
Rhubarb Meringue Pie
Last year I decided to move our rhubarb, we have a lovely vegetable garden and a very abundant and well established fruit garden, but for some unknown reason the previous owner of the house had planted the rhubarb in the vegetable patch. I was a little nervous as we had…
Happy 3rd Birthday Gelsomina’s Cucina
Three years ago today I sat in my kitchen and wrote my very first blog post! The idea at the time, was to bring together all our families favourite recipes in one easy to access place. Simon had left home and would often ring me for cooking advice and recipes,…
Cannoli Cream Puffs
Yesterday for the first time, I had my first go at making choux pastry! If you regularly read my blog you will know that pastry of any kind is my weak area of baking and I promise on many occasions to beat it. Well now I have made a start…
Rhubarb and Ginger Sponge Pudding
Food is for me, away to express caring and love. I love nothing more than bringing people together at the table, feeding them good food, pouring them some wine and spending quality time, talking to them and listening to them. Food, especially baking is a very important part of my…
Raspberry Tiramisu
Another sunny weekend and another weekend entertaining, this time my best friend Christine. We realised this weekend that next year we celebrate our 25th Friend Anniversary, I think we will have to celebrate! Any excuse to entertain and feed people, is always a good excuse in my eyes. I have…
