Italian Kiwi – Recipes, Travel, and More!
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Macarons: Misadventures and Secret Tips
I’ve tried making macarons quite a few times only to end up with gummy, chewy messes. I decided that it was time to rectify this, so went off to a course on making them recently. Sadly my partner-in-crime, Giulia, who I’d spent many hours with trying to figure out where we both went…
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Rolatine (Bianca’s Stuffed Beef Rolls)
Why you should never volunteer for a school camp Normally, I would start a recipe post with a photo of the “dish of the day”, in this case “rolatine” that I am about to rave on about, but today, I’m starting with a photo taken of a beach just before the rain started.…
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Fonduta (Italy’s Version of Cheese Fondue)
Italy’s delicious version of cheese fondue “Enough already!!!”, I hear you screaming. “We can’t take any more of your cheese recipes!!!” Well, come on now….just one more……OK….honestly, why there’s yet another cheese post is because I had to use up the fridge-full of cheese I got from Italy last time we were there…
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Tortellini in Broth
Go to Bologna to eat, and eat, and eat So….we were hanging out in Bologna for a few days just after Christmas, as you do, and there we ate and ate and ate, as you do. I have no idea how the people who live there aren’t as big as houses. The food…
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Gnocchi With Castelmagno Cheese
What to watch out for when ordering cheese in Italy I just returned from a week in the mountains in North-West Italy, and as always when I go there, I stuffed the car to bursting with all sorts of edible goodies. This time I concentrated on cheese as I absolutely love the cheeses…
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Chiacchiere (Crunchy Italian Carnaval Treats)
Crunchy treat time during European Carnaval It’s Carnevale in Italy, and everywhere you look, these scrumptious pastries jump out and you and scream, “EAT ME!! EAT ME!! No, not just one of me! MORE!! MORE!!”. Carnevale is celebrated in many parts of Europe for a few weeks before “Shrove Tuesday”, after which you…
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Apple Cake: Torta di Mele
The no-fat apple cake discovery My parents-in-law were over from Italy in the weekend, and while they were here, for my pleasure (and soon to be for yours!), my mother-in-law showed me how to make this deceptively healthy cake called torta di mele. I say deceptively healthy as after all, it is a cake, and with…
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Breaded Beef Fillets
The ultimate comfort meal Talk about a comfort meal! Well at least for me…….when I was growing up breaded beef fillets were my second favourite thing to eat for dinner (pizza was always number 1), which is just as well as it was served up for dinner every Wednesday night at the boarding school…
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Slow-cooked Carrots (Carote di Bianca)
An amazing recipe for slow-cooked carrots! Bianca is my mother-in-law, who I’ve mentioned quite a few times before in various posts. Every so often she makes these wonderful carrots as a side dish…….I have to admit that it doesn’t happen that often as they take a long time to make and a lot of…
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Polenta: Making Polenta Was Never So Easy!
A slight dusting of snow fell on us last week to about the depth of a thin piece of paper, which caused all traffic to ground to a halt. People abandoned their cars on the sides of the roads and to walked through the forest to work, or back home. As you can probably tell, it doesn’t snow…
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Panettone: Why I Don’t Dare To Make It At Home
Why I haven’t had the courage to make panettone at home Panettone is a wonderful, fluffy, sweet, fruit-laden cake-like bread that is eaten in Italy at Christmas time. I just had the good fortune to be able to attend a weekend course on how to make it run by a fabulous baker called Marco…
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Salame Dolce di Nonna Benedetta
A sweet recipe passed down over generations This recipe for Salame dolce comes from my mother-in-law, who used to make it with her grandmother when she was a little girl. And who knows where her grandmother got it from…….she probably made it with some relative or other when she was small, so we…
