When I decided to start making a whole bunch of ice-creams over summer, Nigella's cheesecake ice-cream was right at the top of my list. I love cheesecake, I love all sorts of cream cheese or mascarpone-based desserts, and I've always loved cheesecake flavoured ice-cream - but only when it actually tastes of cream-cheese. Häagen-Dazs' Strawberry "Cheesecake", for instance,...

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The warm weather is back! 24 degrees today and sunny.Mmm... latte foam...Honey lining a chai latte glass...Sweet pizza at Bimbo's... chocolate in the front, apple at the back... ...

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Leftover gravlax, tossed through hot fettucine with a small knob of butter, a spoonful of cream, Maldon salt, and some freshly ground black pepper. Fabulous with an ice-cold rosé. ...

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Hi All,Just letting you know that my 1-ice-cream-a-week "Ice-Cream Sunday" project is still going. It's just been way too cold to eat any!! I wanted to have ice-cream on Christmas, but it was absolutely freezing, (and it still is). Right now outside feels more like stodgy-pudding weather than ice-cream weather.More ice-creams to come, once the sun comes back...

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Merry Christmas everybody! To everyone who celebrates, I hope you had a fabulous day and that you were at the top of Santa's good list! For lunch, all the members of my family were eating traditional Christmas lunches at different locations, but we had a light family dinner planned for the late evening.Christmas Dinner Menu- Gravlax (Nigella's Christmas...

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I do love goose.Christmas Eve Dinner- Bohemian Roast Goose (Feast)- Perfect Roast Potatoes (How to Eat/Feast)- Maple Roast Parsnips (Feast)- Red Cabbage cooked in the Viennese Fashion (How to Eat)As you can see from the photo, I really have gotten into the Christmas spirit. I even bought a tablecloth!! (This is a huge step for me, as I...

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Making Nigella's chocolate fruit cake was a last minute affair. I saw it on her Christmas show a couple of nights ago, and it looked so deeply fabulous that I decided that I must have one too. It's very easy, and doesn't need to be made far in advance, like a trad fruit cake or pudding would.Just heat...

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I made these cookies on Thursday the 21st of December, as a last minute Christmas gift for some friends who I only just realised were giving me Christmas gifts. They come from the Christmas chapter in Nigella's Feast, and as such, were totally appropriate. The cookie batter contains rolled oats, dried cranberries, pecans and white chocolate. It looks...

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LebkuchenMy run-up to Christmas started about a week ago. I was out shopping and happened to see the perfect gift for my brother. Before that, I didn't think we were really going to do Christmas this year, as we're all busy with work and we don't usually have a tree anyway. All I had planned for this year...

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I had some friends over for lunch yesterday. It was a lovely sunny day, and we ate out in the garden. I made a few platters of food, and let everyone pick what they wanted. Easy! We had an Italian-style antipasto lunch, followed by ice-cream.The MenuMixed griddled vegetables (Jamie's Kitchen)Plain bruschetta (Jamie's Italy, although I guess you don't...

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