The notion of a frozen cherry souffle calls forth images of butterflies, gambolling through sun deckled woods and women who have possibly been dressed by bluebirds. It’s a fantasy of a dish, most probably dreamed up on a very cold winter’s day. It’s very title is a promise of summer. Frozen treats, fresh cherries […]
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I have a certain feeling for snow. When you wake up to this; you can’t help but feel like it’s Christmas. On Saturday afternoon the snow started dancing in the lights of Leicester Square. We chuckled at the sight of everyone panic buying- and then ducked into Tesco and made sure we had enough food […]
I’m not bad at wrapping presents. From the ages 14-17 I worked after school at Kenny’s Cardiology. NB Kenny’s had nothing to do with medical research. It’s a card and gift store. I became well equipped at pointing people towards blank sympathy cards. I knew when someone dolefully needed to find the special dedicated ‘belated […]
If you’re eating dinner at my house mid week- there’s every chance you’ll be facing this for dessert. I’d like to introduce you to my emergency, DIY, deconstructed cheesecakes. These came from a day when I had every intention of making a berry cheesecake to crown a meal. There was Philadelphia in the fridge and […]
Most days in order to happily eat dessert, I’ll put in some time at the gym. It’s a well patented trade off. Frank Bruni needed to call in the services of a running parter to eat professionally on the NY Times’ dime. Jay Rayner seems to have a special relationship with his cross trainer. For […]