Welcome to Carmela’s Kitchen
Welcome to Carmela’s Kitchen, based in Northamptonshire. Carmela is a passionate Italian cookery tutor who specialises in the art of making pasta as is known as a pastaia – specialist pasta maker. Carmela is also an event planner, cookery demonstrator, recipe developer, food writer, founder and chef of a sell out Italian supper club and author of five beautiful Italian cookery books.
- Southern Italian Family Cooking
- A Passion for Pasta
- Northern & Central Italian Family Cooking
- How to make your own fresh pasta (Online publication)
- Pasta Fresca
Carmela shares her love of Italian food through her work as an Italian cookery author, magazine contributor and fortnightly food columnist for the local newspaper ‘The Chronicle & Echo’. Her writing has brought her to the attention of Filippo Berio Olive Oil who has been sponsoring her bimonthly supper club for over eight years, which is now being held at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, the success of which sees each event sold out in advance.
Carmela is a UK brand ambassador for both Marcato Pasta and Filippo Berio Olive Oil.
Carmela’s Kitchen offers delicious Italian cooking classes
Carmela specialises in ‘Handmade Pasta’ classes. With 642 shapes of pasta known, the fun and learning to be had is truly endless!
Most recent recipes
The Best Of British Grain Paired With Casarecce Pasta Recipe
The best of British grain paired with casarecce pasta Make your own fresh pasta with British-grown Krivet Pasta Flour! [...]
Courgette Schiacciata Recipe – From the kitchen garden
Courgette Schiacciata – From the kitchen garden This time of year, I am normally overrun with courgettes, in the [...]
Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe
The best spaghetti bolognese recipe Next Wednesday is Spaghetti Bolognese Day, and we are celebrating by sharing our [...]
Mascarpone and tomato sauce recipe
Mascarpone and tomato sauce With most mid-week dinners, we look for speed paired with flavour while managing the [...]
Easter Rice Cake
Easter Rice Cake An Easter rice cake HobLined baking tin 700 ml milk1 lemon, zested75 g butter75 [...]
Pisarei e faso
Pisarei e faso - The Italian love of pasta and bread Please tell me. Is there anything better [...]
Brodo – Vegetable stock
It’s time to take stock! New Years resolutions, time to get fit, eat healthily or jump on dry January? [...]
Stromboli – Filled volcanic bread
Stromboli – Filled volcanic bread Stromboli is an Italian Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, just off the northern [...]
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