Category: nut-free

Recipe: Rosy Berries with Mascarpone and Yoghurt

Apparently, raspberries, blackberries and roses are all part of the same botanical family.  You can sort of tell, if you are paying attention – they bicker over who started it, embarrass each other in front of boyfriends by loudly anticipating…

Recipe: Chocolate and Raspberry Truffle Cake

I know, I know, it’s chocolate and raspberries again.  I have no imagination.  But it’s such a delicious flavour combination!  This cake was made on the rather flimsy excuse of the recent Rugby World Cup.  We had a tipping competition,…

Recipe: Apricot and Orange Sweetmeats

We’re doing Pericles tomorrow, which means I am cooking like a maniac to prepare a middle-eastern themed feast, and my head is full of lists of things to make, things to decorate, things that need to be set out, things…

Recipe: Oma’s Gingerbread

No, I haven’t abandoned this blog!  It just turns out that if you take one choir concert, two grant applications and a bunch of grant outcomes, stir in a couple of work events and add an upcoming Shakespeare Feast, you…

Recipe: Vegan Dream Cookies

My alarm went off on Sunday morning just as I was in the middle of dictating a recipe for vegan choc-chip cookies to my Italian cousin Rosangela, whom I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years, and who, moreover, lives in…

Recipe: Balsamic Strawberry Parfait

Strawberries again.  What can I say?  They are still deliciously cheap.  This is one of my favourite desserts.  I like to pretend its healthy, but that’s basically a lie.  I also don’t measure anything anymore, so this is a bit…