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…
Pan Fried Green Beans
We love green beans in our house and it is one of the the vegetables that many of us grow in our garden, so it is always nice to have different ways to cook them, especially if you are doing them for a special occasion, dinner party or just fancy…
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…
Blackcurrant Meringues
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,…
