Chickpea Gnocchi Recipe
Chickpea Gnocchi Recipe The beauty of creating something delicious using a store-cupboard favourite. Pure simplicity. I used one of the new pasta sauces available from @fIlippoBerio to complement my chickpea pillows along with an illegal amount of @Granapadano cheese. Enjoy! 250 g Chickpeas (drained from a tin)50 g [...]
Baci di Dama Recipe: Lady’s kisses
Lady’s kisses in biscuit form – Baci di Dama Perfect for your Valentine. Baci di Dama biscuits or cookies in Italian, yet we refer to them as “Lady’s Kisses”.Two beautiful biccies sandwiched together with something chocolatey and equally indulgent and moreish. I love these biscuits because they seem [...]
Winter Minestrone Soup Recipe
May I introduce you to the most wonderful pot of Italian soup. This minestrone graces our family table at least once a week without fail and below you will find my recipe, however, feel free to modify the vegetables and beans as necessary. To date I have written [...]
Tuna and roasted pepper fritters with balsamic and lemon recipe
Tuna and roasted pepper fritters with balsamic and lemon Store cupboard staples turned into a speedy mid-week supperStore cupboard staples make many of my lunches and evening meals. Having a few varieties of different beans, pulses, tomatoes, rices and pastas can lead you into so many directions. I tend [...]
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! I adore this flour.Casarecce pasta with Hodmedods very special krivet flour, pairing the fresh pasta with chickpeas and lemon to create a humble but satisfying dish that highlights the complex [...]
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 form of many colours and random sizes. Some would call this a glut; I however adore this humble vegetable so very much. This year, for some reason my three plants [...]
Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe
The best spaghetti bolognese recipe Next Wednesday is Spaghetti Bolognese Day, and we are celebrating by sharing our recipes using the delicious newly realased Bolognese sauce from Filippo Berio. ??Share your recipe too using #spagbolday and embrace being you!Here's my rule breaking recipe. Enjoy Carmela ?? 2 tbsp [...]
Mascarpone and tomato sauce recipe
Mascarpone and tomato sauce With most mid-week dinners, we look for speed paired with flavour while managing the purse strings a little too if possible.Pasta is always a great go to, whether its freshly made, dried (Italian brands), or an egg based range from your local supermarket fridge, [...]
Easter Rice Cake
Easter Rice Cake An Easter rice cake HobLined baking tin 700 ml milk1 lemon, zested75 g butter75 g caster sugar (or muscovado sugar)3 eggs (large)2 tsp vanilla20 ml strega Warm the milk and add the rice for 15 minutes or so until cooked through. Add the lemon zest [...]
Pisarei e faso
Pisarei e faso - The Italian love of pasta and bread Please tell me. Is there anything better than pasta and bread? Exactly, no there isn’t, so let’s combine the pair and make the most exquisite dish that has strong embedded roots from Emilia Romagna, while also echoing [...]
Brodo – Vegetable stock
It’s time to take stock! New Years resolutions, time to get fit, eat healthily or jump on dry January? Which one are you, if any? January is the month where we try to take hold of ourselves or certain situations, that we can possibly improve. The month feels so [...]
Stromboli – Filled volcanic bread
Stromboli – Filled volcanic bread Stromboli is an Italian Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, just off the northern coast of bella Sicilia, and on this island, you will find ‘Mount Stromboli’, one of the famous four active volcanoes that can be found in Italy. Stromboli was also a [...]