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Gianduja gelato, or Italian hazelnut and milk chocolate ice cream

September 4, 2011 Food & drink
Hazelnut and milk chocolate ice cream

If you’ve read around this blog a bit, you’ll know that I’m not in the game of gratuitous self-promotion, but the other week, I astonished myself and the rest of the family by making an utterly sublime vanilla ice cream. I know it was good because the whole lot disappeared over the course of a couple [...]

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A proper vanilla ice cream

August 21, 2011 Food & drink
Classic vanilla ice cream

Vanilla ice cream.  It’s so boring it’s almost a joke, you’d think? That maybe true of the mass-produced, bland, tasteless soft-scoop rubbish you get at any mediocre supermarket, but the real thing is something else altogether. At it’s best – at it’s very best – vanilla is the king of ice creams, fantastic on its [...]

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Dan Birk at The Devonshire Fell, Burnsall, North Yorkshire

March 24, 2010 Eating out
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Dan Birk, cooking at The Devonshire Fell restaurant in Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales, is an up and coming young chef with a great future ahead of him. His food is elegant and unfussy, stylish and well executed. Dan Birk is definitely one to watch.

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The Drunken Duck Inn, near Ambleside, Cumbria

January 1, 2010 Eating out

We thought we might be staying longer at The Drunken Duck, by default. The night had been cold, and the previous day’s showers had frozen over the lying snow. We checked out and set off down the country lane to the side of the Inn, the car wheels skidding on black ice. I was beginning [...]

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Rhubarb ice cream

May 17, 2009 Food & drink
Rhubarb ice cream

It’s the middle of May, and the weather is quite nice, a bit wet, but warmer. I think it’s time to make ice cream, to get the freezer stocked up for summer. Of course, this is Britain, and the North of Britain at that. This may be summer. This ice cream is based on a [...]

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