Raspberry Panna Cotta Recipe

Raspberry Panna Cotta Recipe

I confess I have never in all my years chefing every attempted to produce a Panna Cotta.  It’s not that I don’t like this dessert, to be honest, there are not many desserts out there that I do not like, but I suppose I never…

Oven Baked Peaches

Oven Baked Peaches

I personally adore peaches, as a young child we usually only got to eat peaches from a tin, doused in syrup and only as a Sunday treat to brighten up a bowl of ice-cream or some such. Later in life when fresh fruit became more…

Traditional Irish Apple Tart

Traditional Irish Apple Tart

Apple tart has long since been an Irish traditional dessert and especially if you were in a position to be able to grow apples or lucky enough to have an orchard. As a young girl growing up many a weekend was spent watching my Mum…

Best Homemade Pancake Recipe From Scratch

Best Homemade Pancake Recipe From Scratch

For the day that is in it, Shrove Tuesday or also known as Pancake Tuesday I thought I would show you just how simple it is to make the best homemade pancakes from scratch. No more will you hover over the “ready-made” batter on the…

Spotted Dick Suet Pudding

Spotted Dick Suet Pudding

During the time that I spent working in the hotel trade in the UK, I learnt a lot from a fellow chef named Dave Morley. Dave took me under his wing and taught me how to make suet puddings and profiteroles. The following recipe is…

3 Ingredient Recipe Desserts

3 Ingredient Recipe Desserts

How simple can this be? This dessert is an old (vintage :-)) type dessert and as with many of its era is quite simple to make.  Summer’s best friends Rhubarb and Strawberry mix well together in this spectacular mousse. There is no real challenge to making…

Classic Sherry trifle

Classic Sherry trifle

Growing up this dessert was a firm favourite among the whole family.  Of course, as children, we only ever got this dessert on special occasions, which to my mind was never nearly often enough! In later years when mum became a diabetic, I tweaked her…