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Trifle is one of life’s most unappreciated and often-abused desserts. I have had some absolutely dreadful ones in my time; drenched in shudderingly sweet sherry, soggy sponge fingers disintegrated in the base with curdling packet custard. I’ve also had some…
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Now, being a classic French sort of girl with a penchant for Indian, this next recipe is probably as good a representation of my personal style as any you’ll see on this site. Achingly classic tarte tatin, a French dessert…
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This year for Halloween something a little bit different was cooking up in the FoodGoblin kitchen. Spending hours whittling faces into Pumpkins around the kitchen table isn’t really my thing; good time that could have been spent eating wasted, if…
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Everyone’s got to love a good cheesecake. I’m not sure I’ve met anyone before who doesn’t. I think they live in segregated communities somewhere, somewhere shit. There’s that thing, isn’t there, that Peter Kay does. Cheese…in a cake. But nobody…
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Part of my Food Tour across the USA has been, and continues to be, spent with a great family friend and a fantastic cook – our American quasi-Grandma who heralds proudly from the state of New Jersey and is more…
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Tarte Tatin is a delicious French classic dessert made traditionally with apples. It consists of apples caramelised in butter and sugar cooked upside-down, with pastry. Legend has it that the recipe was born in a guest house run by the…
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A take on the British classic of Queen of Puddings (sponge, strawberry compote and a meringue crown) – this dessert is composed of a tart but sweet compote of peach and rhubarb, with a hint of orange and vanilla, on…
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