Well hello there. Welcome to 2020! It’s so good to be back. I hope you’re rested and ready for another year of good food and delicious gatherings. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be looking at food trends, what’s new and happening on tables around the world and, whether they are flash in the pan notions or keepers….
Well hello there. Welcome to 2020! It’s so good to be back. I hope you’re rested and ready for another year of good food and delicious gatherings. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be looking at food trends, what’s new and happening on tables around the world and, whether they are flash in the pan notions or keepers….
There are three rules to a successful holiday pudding. It needs to be simple, convincingly sweet and graced with a splurge of excessiveness. I think this Frozen Peppermint crisp pudding pie fits the bill effortlessly. It’s a make-ahead dessert that takes no time at all to throw together but will no doubt, rouse delight. It’s the kind of pudding you…
From the recently published Bibby’s Kitchen Cookbook, here are five spectacular Festive bakes, from sticky cinnamon rolls to pull-apart star bread.
If you’re still debating the centrepiece for your festive gathering, these ten roast recipes for the holidays offers rich rewards. This year, as per my daughter Sabrina’s request, I’ll be serving her favourite maple glazed gammon with burgundy plum sauce. Gammon remains one of the most popular roasts for special occasions and holiday gatherings. If you follow the cooking times, success…
If you’re looking for the Best holiday dessert recipes, here is a collection of showstopping favourites, from trifle to sticky toffee puddings!
There are no secret recipes in our family. Everything that could be regarded as sacred has been poured into the Cookbook. The recipe for this corruptively decadent Chocolate and Pear Malva Pudding with hazelnut cookie crumble is one of them. It’s our inescapable, sweet-toothed nemesis. It comes with a disclaimer, for obvious reasons! For those who already have a copy…
In Italy, ciabatta is the customary table bread, most often eaten with a splash of grassy olive oil. No balsamic, mind you. Just the oil. It also happens to remedy many saucy situations, like bowl mopping. Day old ciabatta can also be repurposed for panzanella salad, to thicken soups or to make crunchy pangrattato crumbs to jazz up a simple…
Comfort food evokes both sentiment and nostalgia. It could remind you of home or your mother’s cooking. Most times, these ‘comforts’ involve carbs or sugar. If severely gripped, it probably means a bit of both. I still recall my mother’s savoury meatballs being amongst the most wrestled for dish on the supper table. Some 40 years on, my Parmesan Meatballs with…
Eating outside is one of summer’s simplest pleasures. It’s as if the flavours become more intense, almost brighter. When the air smells of jasmine blossoms, we head outdoors for unhurried lunches and dusky casual suppers. There are few things I love more than shared gatherings and a simple table laden with beautiful food – crusty bread, a spectacular spring green…
I’m not entirely sure whether this Honey Pannacotta cake with Rosé jelly is in fact a pudding masquerading as a cake or vice versa. Either way, I’m completely smitten. I think you will be too. From the sour cream coconut cake to the chocolate and honey pannacotta, every mouthful encapsulates the sweet promise of spring. If farm to table feasts, meticulously manicured gardens…
