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Black Olive Tapenade
Over the last month, in the fields all over Southern Italy, and on the Cote d’Azur in France, people have been whacking trees with sticks. This may seem like strange, and relatively cruel treatment...
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Baci Di Dama
Baci di Dama are cookies that you find in pasticcerias all over the region of Piedmont in Northern Italy. We always choose to have a few when we go in to order a tray of pasticcini. I adore this...
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Pasta e Fagioli (Pasta And Bean Soup)
The Ultimate Italian Comfort Food When it’s cold and damp outside, I love to have a hearty bowl of Pasta e Fagioli (pasta and dried bean soup). There are many ways to make it in Italy. It’s one of...
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Nutella Crostoli: Italian Carnival Pastries
It’s Carnival time in Europe right now! In France, that means that Nice on the Cote d’Azur has an enormous parade and a flower-throwing battle and the children get to dress up in costumes and throw...
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Butternut Squash And Radicchio Tart
I’m jumping in here with a Wintery recipe just before the season ends completely. Some of you may be snarling at this right now as you’re still up to your knees in snowdrifts, but when I am, Spring...
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Crescia Pasqualina (Savoury Cheese Bread)
I realise that Easter has come and gone, but the recipes linger on. I spent Easter in Italy for the first time ever (at least that I can remember). I think every other year on this long weekend,...
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Gamba Di Legno Cocktail
I’m always on the look out for new cocktails to make as aperitifs. I love a good Italian Aperol Spritz and really enjoyed making the thirst-quenching Peach Prosecco Spritzer that I discovered in...
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Calamari Fritti: A Summer Staple At The Italian Beach
In the Summer in Italy, people go in droves to the beach. The sleepy seaside villages suddenly bulge at the seams with people eating gelato and drinking their morning cappuccinos under big...
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Crostini With Figs, Ricotta And Honey
One of my absolute favourite “meals” is the aperitif time. I just love having lots of different snacks to choose from, all of which can be eaten with your fingers or a spoon. If I were elected...
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Pasticciotti: Custard-Filled Pies From Puglia, Italy
I first came across pasticciotti a few years ago, when we spent a long weekend in the Salento region, way down in the “heel” of Italy. This custard-filled pies are typically eaten for breakfast there...
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Focaccia di Recco
I tasted focaccia di Recco for the firest time in, well, the town of Recco on the Ligurian coast of Italy. I remember it well because our two boys were really young at the time. We had been to Genova...
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Risotto With Prosecco And Toasted Hazelnuts
If you’re looking for a first course to win over your guests and destroy your enemies, then you’ve come to the right place. Risotto made with Prosecco (or any dry sparkling white wine) makes an...
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Bruschetta With Radicchio And Speck
What do you do with your leftover stale bread? It feels wrong to just throw it out, right? If you have chickens or pigs, you don’t need to even worry about this issue, but as our cat is not very...
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Strauben: Sugar-Dusted Swirls From The Dolomite Mountains
I came across these delicious fried treats a few years ago when we went to the Dolomite mountains in the North-East of Italy. There’s nothing better than a crunchy-tender freshly fried pastry dusted...
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Torta Pasqualina
Easter, or Pasqua as the holiday is called in Italian, is just around the corner for many people around the world. Of course, as usual for the long weekend, the weather folks are predicting rain....
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