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...

SWEET WINE Domaine Cady Coteaux du Layon Saint-Aubin Les Varennes 2015, France Old-vine Chenin made from botrytis (aka noble rot)...

Definitely a chestnut cake with chocolate, rather than the other way round, but if you want it to be more chocolaty use 240g chocolate....

There are few smells more evocative than the waft of roasting chestnuts and few more perfect ways of spending a Sunday afternoon than...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Happy Easter! To celebrate, I'm rounding off my chocolate recipe series with some tips and extras, including the all-important question...

A rich lava-like centre underneath a crisp crust, and a dark, brooding chocolate flavour - quintessential winter comfort, but a taste...

This is a River Café Cookbook recipe. Over the years, I have tried varying it by adding chopped crystallised and stem ginger, rum-soaked...

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...

These light-textured shortbread-like biscuits go down well with everyone from tinies through to nineties, probably because they are less...

This may lack sophistication as a strategy, but experience has shown that there are two surefire ways to success when giving a lunch or...

Aka irresistible chocolate mousse with rum. It's another simple classic that we could all be making instead of more elaborate cakes. And...