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Apricot and amaretti layered fool

Sometimes, once in a while, every few weeks, I like to push the boat out. Push the boat out and suggest something that isn’t ice cream for pudding. Adventurous I know. It’s summer, even if the weather is doing it’s best to pretend otherwise, and fruit is, quite literally, ripe for the picking. Apricots have…

Pimm’s sorbet

“Is it that time already?” “I think it is” “It’s Pimm’s o’clock!” I have finally found my perfect summer pudding. It’s light, refreshing and a little boozy. It’s Pimms sorbet and frankly it’s amazing! Pimm’s goes with summer like strawberries go with cream and fish go with chips. Nothing gets you through sunny day like…

Simple summer sorbet

I have a new toy… And boy am I excited! Super duper excited. After 15 years sitting broken in our kitchen we have finally replaced our ice cream machine!! As a child I loved our ice cream machine and the creamy, delicious, speckled pink strawberry ice cream my mother would make for us day after…

BBQ time – Butternut squash, broccoli and quinoa salad

I can’t pretend I decided to make this quinoa salad for it’s health benefits. However brilliant it’s gluten free, protein packed, calcium crammed credentials are it wasn’t them that sold it to me -it was its name. Quinoa- now that is a funny word! How can you not say it and chuckle?! Spill it and…

BBQ time – Summer hummus

Rain rain go away, come again another day… Preferably when we haven’t planned a BBQ… So things don’t always go to plan. With the benefit of hindsight organising a BBQ at the end of May in England a month in advance was pushing it- but oh well- it could have been a sunny evening! It…