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Limoncello is one of my all time favourite summer drinks. Nothing rounds of a lazy, summer Sunday lunch with friends better than a glass or two of delicious home made Limoncello. This recipe is so easy, the only hard part is finding the 95% proof Eau de Vie you need to make it. Always remember this handy ratio guide; 15 lemons to each litre alcohol 1 kg sugar to each litre of alcohol 2 litres water to each litre alcohol Scrub your lemons to remove any wax and pesticides, even organ lemons may be waxed and have sealed in pollution. Peel the 15 lemons and place in a bowl Pour over the Eau de Vie Cover with a plate and leave for 4 days Dissolve the sugar in the water over a gentle flame Drain the Eau de Vie through a colander into the cooled sugar solution Bottle, store in a dark place for a few weeks, chill and serve Enjoy!

I was pondering Easter Sunday lunch when the phone range. ‘Well hello my dear!” it was my best friend, the impeccably named Michele D’Amore, live from Manhattan. ‘So what are you doing for Easter?’ she asked finishing the sentence as only New Yorkers do on an upbeat. ‘Is it going to be traditional?’ ‘Traditional?’ I repeated stalling for time. I cast my mind back across the decades. The only Easter related ritual I had was sneaking into the living room after school where the family’s Easter egg offerings would be lined up for weeks beforehand. Skillfully I would remove an egg from its cardboard housing, unwrap the foil, split the chocolate in two, secrete the wrapped contents in my blazer pocket and reassemble the whole thing within a matter of seconds. Come Easter Sunday I would act out horror as it was discovered that all the eggs were empty. To this day my Father unjustly believes Cadburys is the most shoddily inefficient company in existence. Then I remembered a glo