Pineapple in Salt, Cream of Flora

This dessert always reminds me of my five-year-old daughter Ella, who was named after my grandmother Elaine’s favourite jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald. Ella loves flowers. You could say she’s obsessed with them. She picks flowers from our garden almost every day and places the petals in little bowls filled with water so they keep. On several occasions she’s told me: ‘I really want to be a flower picker when I grow up.’ When her little sister