When I was a small girl living in the Welsh hills we had an elderly neighbour called Mrs Matthews who lived just five minutes walk away. Every Autumn, around this time of year, my mum would send me down to visit Mrs Matthews where I would collect armfuls of beautiful thick pink rhubarb wrapped in…
Tag: cake
Italian lemon and ricotta cake
I’m finding the second lockdown in Italy much tougher than the first. Maybe it’s because winter is upon us and we know this is how things will be at least until the Spring, maybe it’s the relentless online Zoom meetings, a novelty when they started back in March, now anything but. I’m also acutely aware…
Apricot, plum and lavender cake
This weekend we harvested the apricots that grow on the tree behind our house. Last year was a bumper crop but sadly there were very few this year, most likely due to the unseasonally cold and wet conditions during May. So the only option was to make them into a cake, adding a handful of…
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