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 be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I prefer homemade pizza though, as I have control over how the dough [...]
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 well and have an abundance of courgettes, potatoes and tomatoes, my herb garden blooms and pretty much everything else takes [...]
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 have only recently become aware of wild garlic, possibly over the last 5 years or so and with each passing [...]
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 of olive give Filippo Berio Rustico a rich green, slightly cloudy appearance with the most delicious, balanced flavour. A true [...]
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 speedy ‘Colomba di Pasqua, the italian Easter cake that is shaped as a dove. This cake symbolizes hope, prosperity, health, [...]
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 dandelion in salads while pan frying the stalks and leaves as a side. Dandelions are best picked within the spring [...]
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 surrounded by other factors. The time you ate or made the dish, your age, and influences, who you were with [...]
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 not picky so I was always told to take the flavours I wanted, and he would have the rest. A [...]
