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Pasta peas sea bream & artichokes As mentioned in my last blog post, I have given myself the challenge to eat a Pescatarian diet for a while. The idea is to have a diet while eating as little pasta as possible. However, I caved in on a few occasions but […]
‘You’re not putting fish in that lasagna, are you?’ Says the boy with a look of concern, while I’m cooking the new recipe I found, fish and prawn lasagna. I start thinking two things a) ‘Be grateful you’re getting dinner cooked for ya tonight!’ and b) It’s me cooking. Why […]
This new recipe that I cooked tonight, Asparagus Sausage Pasta comes from this amazing Italian recipe book that I downloaded recently; 1000 ricette di Pasta by Newton Compton (1000 Pasta recipes). That’s how simple the title is but its full of so many treasures. I have been deep reading it […]
Recently I’ve been trying to get myself sorted for a Christmas trip to LA, so have been opting for more healthy dishes, but it’s so hard when it’s the middle of the Christmas season with cake and pork pies shoved in my face constantly. Obviously, I love my pasta so I’ve […]
There is nothing more I enjoy more on a cold bitter day than 1) Wearing one of my favourite colourful fur coats and 2) warming myself up with a hearty soup or stew. This Vegetable minestrone soup with pesto is a Ligurian speciality and is adapted from Claudia Roden’s recipe […]
With summer ending, and colder days approaching I have started to push cold dinners and salads to one side. It’s time to start to embrace the warmth and hibernate. I love those little tortellini or capelletti filled with prosciutto & Parmesan. The hand made kind are just so delicate & […]
Nothing makes me happier than a bowl of pasta placed in front of me. What makes me happier is the hundreds of different ways you can eat it, and although I’ve eaten & cooked many, what makes me ridiculously happy is all the other recipes, combinations of ingredients I’m still yet to […]
There is more to lasagna then a few pasta sheets, a mince Ragu & white sauce. On my little regional research of old school Italian recipes I came across this beauty in my battered 1000 recipes from Puglia cookery book that I have read a thousand times over. Based on friends […]
Have recently met a guy who I really like; I was totally worried I may have been friend zoned. However, I had complelty read those signs wrong & I was far from being put into the friend category 😊. So, I decided to cook a good hearty Ragu with lots […]
I would say I am my own worst critic. There have been a few times in my cooking life where I have made some serious boo boos. I usually get so devastated over them, especially when cooking for friends or family that I tend to not forgive myself, apologise over […]
Still on my ‘journey’ of the north of Italy, I have given myself a subconscious brief to limit the number of pasta dishes as possible. This Easter weekend I popped my cherry & am no longer a gnocchi making virgin. And you know what??? It’s not as scary as it […]
So, there are some Pasta dishes that when I cook them here, just take me back to my Salento. So simple and so flavoursome. I actually get a little emosh (haha!). This dish was cooked by my tiny Italian friend Valentina, who’s mum sent fresh maccheroni. This was the real […]
Living and working long hours in London, sometimes can make it difficult to come home and sometimes cook something delicious and quick. For some, its just easier to pick something up on the way home or eat out. I used to be guilty of this, but over the last few years, with my love […]
My tiny Italian friend, Valentina was over this weekend. She is currently living with a family in Cambridge who, unfortunately for Valy, don’t have the best culinary skills. So, when she came over on Friday, she specifically asked for a huge plate of pasta for dinner. So, I compiled a […]
The first time I tried this dish was at a ‘Maseria’ in Salento (Maseria is like a little farm, a family’s home where they grow their own vegetables, breed animals and then serve amazing home cooked food using everything from their land). I remember when i first saw it dished […]
I absolutely love meatballs and I don’t know many meat lovers that can resist a lovely plate of ‘spaghetti e polpettoni’. I believe that this dish can satisfy many emotions; feeling of satisfaction (with a full belly) after eating a good plate of comfort food, it can set the mood […]
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