Italian Kiwi – Recipes, Travel, and More!
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Refreshingly Icy Peach Prosecco Spritzer
Prosecco Spritzer with a little help from my friends As promised, here’s kind of a part two of my post about the Borough Food Market, which is a recipe for a drink we had there. My friends and I discovered this peach prosecco spritzer at the market just as we were waddling out…
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London: Biting Off a Piece of Borough Market
Visiting Borough Food Market in London I had the huge pleasure last week to spend the weekend in London with a group of very good friends. We caught a musical (a Bollywood extravaganza in which the audience was just as spectacular as the show!), we rummaged through the stalls at Spitalfields Market, we…
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Summery Rocket Salad
I’m in salad mode right now, as you can see from my pasta salad post last week, and now this rocket salad post this week! The weather’s getting warmer all the time and my tiny tomato plants that my neighbour gave me are starting to actually look as though they’re not going to die, so…
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Pasta Salad To Beat The Heat!
We have pasta for lunch nearly every day. We have to, otherwise we would be disowned from Italian society. It’s one of the rules of holding an Italian passport. In the Summer months, the thought of a hot pasta dish can sometimes feel like a little too much, so we welcome pasta salads!…
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The Buzz About The Mouans-Sartoux Honey Festival
All about the medieval village of Mouans-Sartoux This week is not about a recipe, but about a local festival the kids and I visited recently in a neighbouring village, which celebrates bees and the honey they busily produce. I have to say that I have never seen so many different types of honey,…
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Munster From The Alsace, France
False friends: Munster cheese and Muenster cheese. what is the difference? Munster cheese is an unpasteurized cow’s milk. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Muenster (note the different spelling) that you can buy in the U.S.A, as it has a different production process and tastes very different. Munster cheese comes from…
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Spaghetti All’Amatriciana
What not to put in Amatriciana sauce There was a huge kerfuffle in Italy recently when a famous chef made Spaghetti All’Amatriciana and put onions in it. The crowd went wild (in a bad way) and there was nearly a lynch mob sent out to get the chef. That’s how seriously the Italians…
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Strawberries And Cream: San Candido Style!
The Secrets Of The Dolomite Mountains Unveiled! Last year we went for a couple of weeks to the Dolomite mountains in the North East of Italy, near the Austrian border. I wasn’t sure what to expect exactly. I heard that the mountains were very beautiful, but that was about all I knew. I…
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Rosemary Leg of Lamb with Baked Tomatoes
Making the perfect roast leg of lamb Easter has been and gone, but roast leg of lamb is not just destined for that long weekend! This roasted lamb leg was what I actually cooked for my Italian side of the family on Easter Sunday. Now, it’s not because we actually celebrate any kind…
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Hot Cross Buns For Easter
Hot cross buns, chocolate eating, and musings about the Easter Bunny Easter is nearly here. I can hear the hoppity-hop of little bunny paws as they stuff their baskets with Easter eggs…..well, there must be more than one Easter Bunny, right? Otherwise how would he get the Easter eggs to all the kids…
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Robiola Bosina cheese from Italy
All about creamy Robiola Bosina cheese from Italy The name ”Robiola” is given to a whole heap of cheeses that are made in the Piemonte and Lombardia regions of Northern Italy. You can take my word for it that if you see the name “Robiola” on a cheese, it’s going to taste good!…
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Red Pepper Flan with Anchovy Sauce
Excuses and Anchovies I know it’s been quiet for a couple of weeks. Sorry about that. Thanks to two weeks of school holidays in which there were sick kids, one after the other, just to make sure we spent the whole first week at home, then a week of holidays in Italy, I…
