Tiramisu comes from the Italian for “pick me up” and boy does it. This has to be one of my all time favourite desserts. If you’ve not had it before where have you been? The best way to explain (aside from saying go try some now!) is that it’s an Italian trifle.  I’ll go ahead [...]

I always like playing about with macarons, coming up with new flavour combinations. It’s one of the many reasons that they’re so great, they can be so many different flavours. These were a product of two different inspirations, I had a salted caramel macaron from a little cafe in town called La Boite. Secondly, I [...]

Dried fruit is a common theme amongst European Christmas treats, from the dense, rich English Christmas cake, to the sweeter German stollen, the Italians have panettone. Buttery, lightly sweetened with honey and enriched with eggs with a distinctive cupola shaped top. Of course, no one can agree quite on when it was first made or [...]

We’re a fan of making our own pizzas, once you’ve had home made you don’t want to go back to store bought if at all possible (though that does go for most things, not just pizza). The best thing about home made pizza, you can top it with whatever you like, whatever takes your fancy. [...]

A complete mish-mash of cuisines! I love making risotto, it’s so much fun, it tastes delicious. I get all excited about it and enthusiastic. That lasts right up until about halfway through the stock adding part of the process, I’ve been stirring near constantly for 10 minutes and have at least another 10 to go [...]

Lasagne is a dish that is different everywhere you go. Even in Italy every region has its’ own way of preparing this staple, so once you spread to the rest of the world, well, there’s lots of variations. The one I make is a mish-mash of the one my Mum used to make for us, [...]