Fava bean flour farfalle with pan-fried tomatoes & pine-nuts. A beautiful shape with many names, Farfalle can also be known as butterflies, bows and angel wings. All delicious regardless of [...]
Spinach spätzle sparrows with a taleggio drizzle As soon as the change of season, darker nights and darker mornings are upon me, I crave comfort food that I can eat [...]
As the ‘Great British Bake Off’ frenzy has hit our hungry nation again I thought it was only apt to hit you with something simple yet sweet this week. I [...]
If I closed my eyes tightly and clicked my heels three times I could almost smell the aroma……… Growing up, tiramisu was always made by my mum and aunties when [...]
Carmela teaches in Italy.....26th - 30th May 2020!! Come cook with Carmela in Italy and enjoy a fully immersive 5 day cooking experience, you will also discover the secrets of [...]
I love a meatball or 10 but whenever I think of meatballs it always reminds me of that one time I was clearly desperate and on a low after a [...]
The idea seemed good, logical, well almost! Buy chickpeas and mill them into flour for some pasta development work I’m currently working on. How wrong was I? My previous experience [...]
With an almost instant change of season we welcome a change of produce. My favourite summer vegetable has to be the humble courgette with its stunning edible flower as [...]
Food and drink, flowers, perfume, holidays, photos, these all evoke memories of some kind. Remembering tasks that my parents and I would carry out seasonally on our farm as a [...]
My kitchen garden is tiny and I should probably call it my herb patch but the word patch doesn’t have the grandeur I want you to whimsically imagine. So, going [...]
