Italian Kiwi – Recipes, Travel, and More!
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Strolling Through Noli On The Ligurian Coast, Italy
Surprises Everywhere! The Ligurian coast in Italy is full of surprises! I don’t know how many times we have zoomed along the motorway on the way to Turin and passed by all its secrets. Recently, we decided it was time to start exploring a bit of this coastline. We unearthed the beautiful village of…
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How To Cure Your Own Olives
How to hit an olive tree I’ve talked before about how hoards of wild Southern Europeans roam around the countryside banging trees with sticks and raking their leaves with big wooden combs at this time of the year. This year we decided to join them, as the olives that grew on our few…
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Candied Yams (Sweet Potatoes and Marshmallows)
Going where I never thought I would go A recipe on how to make candied yams is not something that I ever thought I would post, to tell you the truth. Marshmallows on a savoury dish seemed like one of those foods of American lore, like deep-fried Twinkies, that were better off left…
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The Lowdown On Whale-Watching In Quebec, Canada
Whales, Whales Everywhere As promised when I wrote about laid-back town of Tadoussac, which nestles on the edge of the huge St Lawrence river in Quebec, here’s the lowdown on looking for whales of all kinds in the waters around the town. Apparently, if you’re lucky enough, you can just look in…
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Post-Op Vegetable Puree
Soothing food for post-operation patients I know the photo above doesn’t look much like the whale I promised to write about in my last post, but it’s been a pretty intense week this week. At the beginning of the week my youngest son had braces put on his teeth, and my eldest son not only…
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Into The (Slightly) Wild: Tadoussac, Quebec
On the banks of the Saint Lawrence river We had come to the end of the road; or so it seemed. After driving alongside the enormous St Lawrence river for a few hours on a smooth, two-lane highway filled with large trucks and the biggest camper-vans I have ever seen, the road had just…
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Risotto With Seafood And Peas
Bears, beer, and risotto I know it’s been a while. I’ve been off in the semi-wilds of Canada for nearly a month, fighting off bears with my bare hands and riding moose. Actually, the closest I came to bears was from a kayak while they were turning over enormous rocks on a…
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Pizza Rossa With Anchovies
The difference between pizza rossa and pizza marinara I generally make pizza rossa for one of my sons as he hates melted mozzarella (still trying to figure out why). He also loves anchovies, so I add them with some olives and capers. If you prefer, you can just cook the base with the…
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Bussana Vecchia, Liguria: Where To Eat
Where to eat in the village of Bussana Vecchia Remember that I promised you a couple of weeks ago that I’d tell you where to eat once you’ve explore the wonderful village of Bussana Vecchia on the Ligurian Coast of Italy ? Well, here I finally am to divulge all the eating secrets of…
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Asparagus Risotto
The vagarities of Spring Spring is here with its fickle weather. It’s the time of the year that shouts out to you from its blue sky that it’s beautifully sunny so that you pull that light clothing out from the back of your wardrobe where it has been hibernating for the Winter. You…
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Fior di Pecura: Pungent Corsican Cheese
The smelliest cheese you’re ever likely to meet This may be the stinkiest cheese I have ever laid my nose on. After wrapping the Venaco Fior di Pecura like a present in that kids’ birthday game called “Pass The Parcel” where when the music stops, the child holding the package gets to take…
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Cervo, Liguria, Italy
Discover the beauty of Liguria I had a very pleasant surprise a couple of weekends ago when I discovered this tiny village on the Ligurian coast in Italy. We chose to go there arbitrarily as it was at the halfway point between our house and where the friend we were going to meet…
