I am usually put off from making ice-cream because I don’t have the right equipment. But not any more….not with this delicious recipe for no-churn ice-cream. It really doesn’t get easier than this. The sugar content of the condensed milk prevents the mixture from crystalizing whilst freezing, resulting in a super soft ice-cream. Recipe makes 10 generous portions: Ingredients: 1…
Category: Desserts and baking
Spiced fruit and nut flapjack cookies
Flapjack or cookies? Cookies or flapjack? With these tasty biscuits you no longer need to choose.They can be rustled up in no time at all and use whatever dried fruit and nuts you have in your store cupboard. Makes around 16 cookies Ingredients: 200g soft unsalted butter 175g soft brown sugar 2tbsp golden syrup (feel…
Gluten Free Flatbreads
This recipe has been in the making for quite a while, with many disastrous attempts to get it right. The natural stretch in bread dough comes from the gluten, so simply substituting a gluten free flour isn’t going to work. Trust me, I know. The secret – xanthan gum. This isn’t something that is readily…
Summer fruit semifreddo
What a privilege to be invited to cook at the Etwall food fayre, to demonstrate a simple tasty dish in my home town of Derby. As the summer comes crashing to a rather wet and windy end, I wanted one last moment of sunshine, and nothing says that better than this delightful dessert. It’s incredibly…
Chaos, mayhem and a pretty delightful chocolate pudding.
It’s been a busy week in the kitchen as I prepared to join Sally Pepper in the BBC Radio Derby studio to cook up a storm in their delightful kitchen. Or so I thought. In reality the kitchen was reminiscent of my student days; who knew that electric coil hobs still existed? Infamous as the…
Hunger Pangs 