Polenta pizza
Polenta pizza Everyone loves pizza. It is a treat with a sense of comfort and generosity. Pizza is delicious warm or cold and equally in my house its acceptable to [...]
There’s nothing Fawlty about my Basil!
There’s nothing Fawlty about my Basil! The sewing and gardening season is upon us and I anticipate many triumphs and failures along the way. I seem to always do [...]
Wild garlic buds..
Pickle my buds - Wild garlic Spring brings with it the long awaited and incredibly well-hidden in a hide and seek fashion, wild garlic leaves, buds, and flowers. I [...]
Filippo Berio – Rustico
Filippo Berio Rustico Filippo Berio Rustico is a delicious, unfiltered extra virgin olive oil crafted for the olive oil lover amongst us all. Made without any filtration, tiny pieces [...]
Colomba di pasqua – Italian Easter cake
Colomba di pasqua – Easter cake Easter may seem a distant memory for now, but I still wanted to share with you how to create this simply beautiful and very [...]
Spring dandelions
Spring dandelions – Forage these sunshine heads on your daily walk! Bittersweet and foraged makes this dish a perfect later spring treasure. I use the sunshine head of the [...]
Olive oil & ricotta ciambella
Olive oil and ricotta Ciambella cake Food memories tend to always be happy memories because whether the food you are recollecting was good or bad, it will always be [...]
Crostata – Jam Tart
Move over Mr Kipling….. Crostata – Jam tart Move over Mr Kipling! As a young girl I would share a box of jam tarts with my dad Rocco. He was [...]
Carmela’s Kitchen – Fresh pasta range
Life is a combination of magic and pasta – Federico Fellini In search of comfort and speed when you are exhausted, hungry and in need of feeding a family rapido, [...]
Rolled & baked cabbage leaves
Filled, rolled & baked savoy cabbage leaves... The word resolution should forever be banned in my opinion because firstly I would fail within 24 hours of setting any and secondly, [...]