The Delectable Garden Food Blog. A collection of recipes inspired by my seasonal garden.
A selection of bakes and sweet treats from The Bakery.
Bake bread like a pro with my Easy Homemade Bread recipe. This soft and tasty bread, with it’s golden crust and excellent texture, never fails to impress. Especially when used for doorstop sandwiches, buttery toast and dunking into fresh soup. Best of all it only …
The Gelato Experience at The Delectable Garden. Join me in my kitchen for a deliciously interactive day of authentic Italian gelato making and tasting. Gelato Love Gelato is an incredibly creamy Italian frozen dessert. Compared to traditional ice cream, gelato, has a thick and silky …
Blackberry Crumble Sundae. Favourite British dessert, meet my Italian obsession. Creamy vanilla gelato rippled with blackberry coulis, topped with buttery crumble. Gelato I’m making the most of late summer by creating different gelato flavours using seasonal produce from The Delectable Garden. Every visitor is having …
My Rhubarb Custard Curd will envoke childhood memories of sitting in the sunshine with a tub of sugar eating bright red stalks of rhubarb. Mek yer tabs laugh is a local saying that springs to mind when I think back to those spring days. I …
Warning, these Cheesecake Filled Easter Eggs are absolutely filthy! Rich and creamy no bake cheesecake on a bed of buttery biscuit crumbs, encased by a smooth milk chocolate egg, topped with the nations favourite mini eggs. The fresh produce has about run dry in The …
Lemon and Thyme Curd- a homemade jar of sunshine and happiness. Thyme adds a floral hint to this creamy, tangy, Lemon and Thyme Curd. Ready in less than 30 minutes using only 5 ingredients you’ll find in your cupboards, you’ll never want to buy lemon …
Jostaberry Fool, silky smooth whipped cream is rippled with sharp crimson jostaberries to tantalise your taste buds. I wanted to share a recipe using the jostaberries I collected from The Delectable Garden last summer. Jostaberries are a cross between black currents and gooseberries, the mix certainly …
My Rich, Smooth and Divine Chocolate Tart is just plain naughty, making it the perfect way to spoil your special Valentine. Love I get so much from baking. It helps me relax, I get satisfaction from people’s enjoyment of my goodies and it evokes emotional …
Salted Caramel Apple Tart with Peanut Butter Whipped Cream is my take on a classic apple tart. Salted caramel, apple and peanut butter, this tart should be called ‘The Sound of Music’ because it’s topped it with my favourite things! I have a confession to …
My Spiced Pumpkin Pecan Maple Cupcakes are little bites of winter heaven. The moist sponge has a subtle warmth from the spices, they are topped with a sweet maple cream cheese frosting and crunchy maple pecan. Whether you have grown your own pumpkins or bought …