Jasmine Nonna

Devil’s Food Cake

Well yesterday was my Birthday and Hubby promised me a whole weekend off and promised to spoil me like a Princess. He kept to his word and I didn’t have to lift a finger all weekend, he did the washing, the school ironing, the meals, it was fantastic. On the…

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Pancakes

Childhood memories of food are always the best, I remember Jasmine (Nonna) always making these for me and the tradition followed on into our family. Every school holiday I seem to make pancake after pancake for the kids breakfast. I tend to get them to eat them outside or we…

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Perfect Pavlova

Nigella likes to refer to this recipe as a prodigious pavlova, I like the idea of describing it as this as it means remarkably or impressively great in extent & size and trust me it is. The first time I made this I was a little overwhelmed at just how…

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About me

I came up with the idea of this blog as I had been writing a cookery book for my Children after my eldest Son Simon left home and would ring me for all his favourite recipes. I thought that this way it would be easier to update & where ever they were they could cook their favourite recipes. This blog is that index card box of scribbled recipes, torn out recipes from magazines, lost somewhere in the house, all brought neatly together in one place.

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