Peaches, plums, apricots and nectarines are one of summer’s great gifts. Stone fruits are delicious in desserts, salads, preserves and savoury dishes. Here are some of my favourite stone fruit recipes.
Cherrymisu Like this recipe? Join my small-group food & wine tours to Italy and discover more regional Italian specialties! Tiramisu without coffee? How can that be? After all the coffee gives tiramisu its name, which means ‘pick-me-up. But some people (like my friend Diana) don’t like coffee yet still crave the creamy layered flavour of […]
How To Peel A Peach Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Peaches are one of summer’s great gifts, delicious just as they are, sliced into salads and in desserts; but first we need to get rid of that fuzzy skin. A vegetable peeler is handy for peeling […]
Top 5 Prosecco Cocktails Prosecco (also known as glera) is a grape traditionally grown in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in north-eastern Italy, where it’s made into a light, creamy sparkling white wine also called Prosecco. Visit the hills of Valdobbiadene on my small-group food & wine tour of Venice & Veneto. The best Prosecco is […]
Spungata (Ligurian Apricot Tart) Join one of my food & wine tours to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! This delicious fruit tart, called spungata in Liguria and spongata in neighbouring Emilia-Romagna, is similar to what other Italian regions call a crostata. In Liguria, a spungata is often given as a gift when visiting […]
Nectarine Fruit Crumble Best crumble ever in a Scottish East Coast fishing village! Discover Scotland’s best eats & drinks on my ‘Seafood & Spirits’ Tour! Fruit crumble may just be the world’s easiest dessert – and one of the yummiest! The only trick to making a great crumble topping is that the butter has to […]
Duck & Peach Salad Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! I’m not generally a fan of meat and fruit together, but duck seems to be an exception and works well with oranges, figs and stone fruit – in this case delicious summer peaches. Duck breasts […]