Rare, Unbearably Expensive and Unlike Anything Else: Royal Tokaji Essencia 2009
A five-centilitre sample may sound miserly but, when we’re talking about Tokaji Essencia, it’s lavish. To make the wine in this miniature...
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- Dec 18, 2018
The Festive Sweet, Sticky and Fortified Guide 2018
SWEET WINE Domaine Cady Coteaux du Layon Saint-Aubin Les Varennes 2015, France Old-vine Chenin made from botrytis (aka noble rot)...
- Dec 31, 2016
Chestnuts: Chestnut Chocolate Cake
Definitely a chestnut cake with chocolate, rather than the other way round, but if you want it to be more chocolaty use 240g chocolate....
- Oct 23, 2016
Chestnuts: Introduction, tips & quick ideas
There are few smells more evocative than the waft of roasting chestnuts and few more perfect ways of spending a Sunday afternoon than...
- Aug 1, 2016
Blackcurrants: Tips and Extras
Ending off this blackcurrant series with, as always, some tips and extra ideas of what to do with all the blackcurrants I know you've...
- Jul 13, 2016
Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Ice Cream
I don’t know of a more flamboyant coloured ice cream. Come to think of it I don’t know of many better flavoured ice creams. And it’s a...
- Jul 9, 2016
Blackcurrants: Summer Pudding
If you use a mixture of berries in a summer pudding, you have to go easy on the blackcurrants because they have a habit of overwhelming...
- Jun 1, 2016
Ice Creams: Variations & Sauces
Rounding up my ice cream series with variations on a theme, and two sauces. This is also a good place to point out my favourite way of...
- May 21, 2016
Ice Creams: Coffee Ice Cream
The accepted wisdom with coffee ice cream is that you should either use instant coffee or strain out the fresh grounds, but I like coffee...
- May 18, 2016
Ice Creams: Lime Ice Cream
You can make this with lemon instead, but lime, with its spicy note, is sensational. It’s very intense in flavour, so will overpower a...
- May 15, 2016
Ice Creams: Very Chocolatey Ice Cream
Every ice-cream cook has to have a chocolate recipe. This is mine. It was after making this and a seed-speckled vanilla that I turned my...
- May 12, 2016
Ice Creams: Mango Ice Cream
Here is proof that you don’t have to have eggs and custard to make quick, easy, exotic-tasting ice cream. If it’s not eaten within 12...
- May 4, 2016
Ice Creams: Bay Leaf Ice Cream
It may not feel all that summery right now, but we are promised warmer weather this weekend so why not make some ice cream in...
- Mar 27, 2016
Chocolate: Tips and Extras
Happy Easter! To celebrate, I'm rounding off my chocolate recipe series with some tips and extras, including the all-important question...
- Mar 24, 2016
Chocolate: Hot Chocolate Puddings
A rich lava-like centre underneath a crisp crust, and a dark, brooding chocolate flavour - quintessential winter comfort, but a taste...
- Mar 19, 2016
Chocolate: Pressed Chocolate Cake
This is a River Café Cookbook recipe. Over the years, I have tried varying it by adding chopped crystallised and stem ginger, rum-soaked...
- Mar 13, 2016
Chocolate: Spiced Chocolate Nut Terrine
This needs a couple of hours to chill, but apart from that it’s a doddle to prepare and is not cooked. It works equally well with...
- Mar 7, 2016
Chocolate: Chocolate Chip Biscuits
These light-textured shortbread-like biscuits go down well with everyone from tinies through to nineties, probably because they are less...
- Mar 1, 2016
Chocolate: Dark Chocolate Orange Mousse
This may lack sophistication as a strategy, but experience has shown that there are two surefire ways to success when giving a lunch or...
- Feb 21, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Petits Pots de Chocolate
Aka irresistible chocolate mousse with rum. It's another simple classic that we could all be making instead of more elaborate cakes. And...
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