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, [...]
Pasta e fagioli – Parmigiano Reggiano
Pasta e fagioli – Parmigiano Reggiano My stainless steel, Roman grater sits comfortably in the groove of my bent left arm, cradled almost, whilst I grate my Parmigiano [...]
Yorkshire Pecorino
Say cheese! Covid, is most definitely hanging around for much longer than we or I initially thought it would. By late summer I was hoping we would be looking forward [...]
Spinach spätzle sparrows with a taleggio drizzle
Inspiration can be found all around us. Be it in a book, a simple conversation, a dish we have eaten, an aroma, a change of season or a television programme. [...]
Nocino – Walnut liquor
Nocino – Walnut liquor As we cautiously enter the month of September not knowing what to expect, I know as a guaranteed certainty that I will be prepping food gifts [...]
Northern & Central Italian Family Cooking….
Northern & Central Italian Family Cooking – released today Publication day has finally arrived and with it embraced tightly and with great anticipation is my fourth Italian cookery book, named [...]