Recipes

Melting Middle Fondant (disguised as a Christmas Pudding)

I cannot bear Christmas Pudding, I have never been a fan of fruit cakes, and that’s entirely my mother’s fault. My nan would buy Eat Me dates, she loved traditional fruit cake and every Christmas she’d buy one. I’m not even sure it got eaten…

From ground to plate – the story of a summer truffle

Somewhere in a wood, its exact location shrouded in secrecy, ‘black diamonds’, ‘culinary gold’ ‘fairy apple’ ‘black queen’ ‘gem of poor lands’ ‘fragrant nugget’ and the ‘black pearl’ are found.  Their Latin name is ‘Tuber aestivum’ but we know them as truffles, and it’s here in South…