Lemon Curd Syllabub

I’ve been motivated to whip up a batch of lemon curd, not because the breakfast table is lacking but because it makes a jolly good standby for impromptu desserts, you know the sort, the ones that start after dinner with ‘have we got any chocolate’? Ice cream,...

Rhubarb and Custard Trifle

  I bloody love custard…I’d choose custard over chocolate any day. Proper homemade custard, vaguely yellow and flecked with vanilla, poured disproportionately over crumble, or set thick and cold over fruit in a trifle and topped with sweet whipped cream. So many...

Chocolate Mousse

  Chocolate mousse is a rare thing these days, seldom seen on menus, at least not as a dessert in its own right and never on the feeds and pages of our peers and influencers. In food as in life, there’s a bewildering barrage of trends, eating fashions and...