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…
The Perfect Easter Afternoon Tea
This isn’t really a new blog post or recipe in the traditional way, but more a simple way of helping you devise the perfect afternoon tea, obviously you can tweak the menu to suit your palate, but it offers a rough guide to help you plan your perfect afternoon. My…
Italian Cream Cake
Well its been snowing and we have been having lots of fun sledging and with our new puppy, he has just loved the snow, so much so that we have renamed him ‘The Snow Dog’. It is our first winter in our new house and not only is it really…
Lemon and Thyme Cake
Happy New Year to you all ! I hope you all had a very lovely Christmas and a wonderful New Year, if you have made resolutions I hope that they are going well and you are managing to stick to them. I never make any, as I know if I…
Gingerbread Cake
Just had to quickly tell you about this sticky gorgeous gingerbread cake, a perfect Christmas treat, so simple to make, fills the house with yummy Christmas smells and really hits the spot served with a cup of tea on a cold frosty morning and because you can store it so…
Delia’s Shepherds Pie
Well Halloween has passed, Bonfire Night is over and Jack Frost can be seen more often than not most mornings, it has been a glorious autumn this year and I have enjoyed watching the garden change as we have been through the seasons in the new house. I was once…
Homemade Pizza
Food brings people together! Fact! I know I am always banging on about this, but it worries me that fewer and fewer people make the time to cook good food and then take the time to sit down together to eat as a family or with friends. The food doesn’t…
Sfincione (Sicilian Pizza)
I love Italian food, but I am not a pizza lover, well I wasn’t until I found the recipe for this gorgeous Sicilian Pizza, unlike the thin based, tasteless topped pizza you normally get, this one is on a beautiful thick bread base and the toppings are full of flavour…
Wild Garlic Pesto
I love this time of the year, its the start of the foraging season, during the Spring and the Summer months the great outdoors presents us with a wonderful array of delicious free food and in Spring I think it is at its most potent, its full of energy, everywhere…
Tarte Fine Aux Tomates (Tomato Tart)
In amongst my vast collection of cookery books, mostly Italian or baking, I do have a couple of lovely French ones and the book above just happens to be one of them. Its full of gorgeous recipes, beautifully written and the recipe below I thought was just perfect as we are…
