Red wine pasta recipe – Ruffino
Red wine pasta, its full of rich fruity flavours making it a great carrier for the sauce. I used Ruffino’s…
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Milk and honey oat loaf
Milk and honey loaf with oats, soft tender and brioche like on the inside and crusty on the outside. Its…
Garden harvest cake
I have named this a Garden harvest cake, as it is full of seasonal ingredients that are available to forage…
Fennel pollen, honey and ricotta ice cream baked Alaska
I know the idea of fennel pollen ice cream might sound a bit odd, but the warm aniseed like flavours…
Chianti – The wine region of Italy and making pici pasta
You all know my obsession with pasta, so after my trip to Tuscany I wanted to make the traditional Tuscan…
Cardamom buns with red currents
These cardamom buns are so fluffy and full of flavour, the tartness of the red currents went perfectly with the…
Lavender sugar blackberry cake with crumbly frangipane top
I wanted to bake a blackberry cake with the abundance of freshly picked blackberries I had. I decided on a…
Ruffino relais in Tuscany and a panzanella bread salad
Inspired by the picnic lunch we ate in the Ruffino wines beautiful vineyard, I recreated the panzanella bread salad recipe….
Lavender almond and fennel seed granola clusters
If you wandered how to get granola clusters that stick together, then its easy. I dreamt up this recipe whilst…
Strawberry poppy seed Hokkaido milk bun recipe
I have a bit of a love affair with this Hokkaido milk bun bread dough recipe!. Ever since i made…