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Italian home cooking
4M ago
Well, that title IS misleading in its conciseness. It should read “apple, pumpkin, amaretti, chocolate, figs and sultana cake with brandy and rum” – no less!. This opulent pudding is one of the most delicious and the most unusual dishes I have tasted in a long time. It comes from Piemonte (again!, as you might have ..read more
Italian home cooking
6M ago
It took a leap of faith and my avid curiosity to try this cake: could a basic sweet batter and some grated courgettes make a good cake? No nuts, no sultanas, no spices…really? A resolute “yes!” is the answer. This is a most unusual and excellent cake come dessert: delicate, plain and light, but not ..read more
Italian home cooking
7M ago
“Pasta china” is the name of a sumptuous, festive, baked pasta dish from Calabria, the heel of Italy, in the deep south. In the local dialect, “china” stands for the Italian adjective “piena”, full, and that’s exactly what this dish is about: a riotous affair of short tubular pasta dressed with a spicy tomato sauce ..read more
Italian home cooking
9M ago
Panzanella On a hot, summer day in Lucca, few places are more agreeable to have lunch at than under the stone arches of the old trattoria Da Giulio, well protected from the gaze of the sun. The menu never changes (dreary to be a chef there, one would have thought) and the food is solid ..read more
Italian home cooking
1y ago
Mid April and spring has not made its mind up yet. Days can be stunning, with blue skies dotted with clouds but it is still cold. Yesterday evening we made a fire.In shops and at the market one can find spring vegetables (peas, broad beans, artichokes)and winter bitter greens, leeks and fennels. April really is ..read more
Italian home cooking
1y ago
La pastiera (Easter Neapolitan sweet pie with wheat and ricotta ..read more
Italian home cooking
1y ago
Aubergine parmigiana is one of the most famous Italian dishes: layers of fried aubergines, tomato sauce, mozzarella and parmigiano reggiano (in its most basic version). It is not, however, the only parmigiana in town: one can make artichoke, courgette, potato, fennel, celeriac, mushroom parmigiana and even a butternut squash one, which I am sharing with ..read more
Italian home cooking
1y ago
UPDATE September 2022: please check the end of this post In her last book, even the arch-traditionalist Marcella Hazan said that making egg pasta dough in the food processor is fine. She was finally acknowledging what home cooks and restaurant chefs had probably been doing for a long time, but it was also testament to ..read more
Italian home cooking
1y ago
Lucca, June 2022 . London, August 2022. This has been the best, most rewarding recipe of this summer. Just love it I am a bread collector. All those stale loaf-ends (apparently called “the heels”) that cannot be eaten but cannot be turned into breadcrumbs either, I put aside – “I will make a bread pudding ..read more