Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 06:00 
aren't they pretty? i added a couple of teapoons of rosewater and a few drops of pink food colouring to my meringue mix then dusted them with pistachio crumbs before baking. we ate these with berries and cream. a real taste of summer.
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 06:00 
by rights this ice cream should be pictured nestled amongst pretty pastel-coloured rose petals to signify its delicate perfumed flavour. instead you'll have to make do with this more simple picture of it, in a cone, ready to be eaten as i sat in the summer sun in our garden.
the recipe is an adapted version on my easy vanilla ice cream, with 2 teaspoons of rosewater replacing the vanilla. very easy, very delicious.
Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 06:11 
i’m still craving cake, cake and more cake! after last week’s chocolate fudge cake and given the beautiful sunshine we’ve intermittently been enjoying, i decided that something lighter was needed. a friend recommended diana henry’s rose-drenched lime and yoghurt cake.
this has similar flavours to my much-loved pistachio and orange cake with lemon rosewater icing but is much more delicate, both in flavour and texture, and i was glad that i’d upped the lime zest content of the cake itself. it’s incredibly moist, both because of the yoghurt and the lime and rosewater syrup which is poured over the still-warm cake and would be a lovely cake to serve after meal.
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 06:52 
london has been full of sunshine and warmth over the past week and this weekend i was in the mood to celebrate with a cake. i fancied something citrussy to use up the orange that has been sitting forlornly in the fruit bowl for a little longer than it should.
a quick rummage through various cookbooks led me to a nigel slater recipe for a pistachio cake which is scented with orange and rosewater and then topped with a lemon icing – absolutely perfect!
i decided to up the rosewater content and added it to the icing as well which worked incredibly well – the icing has a strong lemon flavour which is softened by the floral rosewater. a sprinkling of pretty-in-pink sugar crystals and i had a lovely moist cake which i’m sharing with tartlette helen, and domestic goddess jennifer, for this month’s sugar high friday which has a citrus theme.
