Potato chops from mum’s kitchen

Growing up in Mumbai, we often enjoyed potato chops for dinner with a little ketchup and a small salad on the side. Mum would form the potato chops and then layer them in a plastic container with grease proof / baking paper between 2 layers of potato chops, ready to fry in time for our…

Christmas pudding ice cream

This ice cream has become a favourite with family & friends. I usually use brandy but this year I used blackberry liquor, made from berries we picked in the garden during the summer. I also used cane sugar instead of white sugar. It gave the ice cream a deeper taste. 4 large egg yolks 100…

Christmas – Fruit cake

Mum made her Christmas cake 6-8 weeks before Christmas Day. The following weeks went to maturing the cake with a weekly sprinkle of rum. We all looked forward to the first slice of Christmas cake with coffee or a port wine when we got back home from midnight mass. This is my version for Christmas…