Italian Kiwi – Recipes, Travel, and More!
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How To Get A Coffee Fix In Turin, Italy
A Few Of My Favourite Cafes In Turin There are nearly as many cafes in Turin as there are stars in the sky. I haven’t found one yet that makes bad coffee but there are a few that I try to frequent whenever I visit Turin, that make outstanding coffee. The only problem with…
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Peas With Bacon And Pinenuts
Fresh peas are one of my favourite vegetables. The best way to eat them, as far as I’m concerned, is straight off the vine while you’re standing by the plant. If you get them small enough, raw peas taste sweet and nutty and don’t even need to be cooked. As they get a…
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Calamari Fritti: A Summer Staple At The Italian Beach
Summertime in Italy 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 sun-umbrellas before heading to their reserved sun-loungers on the beach for a day of swimming and sunbathing. Many…
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Grilled Tomatoes And Feta Cheese
Hot weather, magpies, and a fabulous grilling recipe It’s hot up here in the Northern hemisphere; so hot that you could just about cook an egg by cracking it on the terrace outside our house. It would be covered in dust and bird-poo, so maybe wouldn’t be that great to eat. By the…
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Hiking At The Col De La Cayolle, France
Hiking the Cayolle Pass in the South of France You may remember last week that I told you all about a quest we went on to find the source of the Var River. The day after discovering the tiny puddle that the big river stems from, we decided to go for a glorious…
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Chocolate Afghan Cookies
A Special Cookie From New Zealand This cookie is for some reason called an Afghan cookie, although it is not from Afghanistan, and is not made by an Afghan dog. Afghan cookies are a specialty from New Zealand and are one of those sweet treats that you find in just about every cafe…
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Gamba Di Legno Cocktail
Why IS the cocktail called Gamba di Legno? 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 London, but this time I wanted to try something without spritz in the name,…
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Summer Vegetable Tart
Zucchini, Fava Bean And Cherry Tomato Tart This is a fantastically easy tart to make during the summer months when you can get zucchini and cherry tomatoes everywhere. If you’ve got a green thumb and a bit of garden, maybe they can even come from there. I made this zucchini tart one day…
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Asparagus Salad With Mustard And Balsamic Vinegar
Easy asparagus to delight everyone and make you look good in the process Spears of asparagus are shooting up everywhere now that the weather is warmer. I often make it with grated Parmesan cheese on it, but I was getting a little bored with that, so I decided to try something new.…
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Mieja Mieja cheese from France
What is Mieja Mieja cheese? This is an extremely rare cheese with an unusual name: mieja meija (or medja medja, depending on who is spelling it). The word means “half half” in Occitan , the language which was once spoken all through the South of France, in parts of Northern Italy and in North-Eastern Spain. Catalan,…
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Chocolate Eating In Turin, Italy
My favourite chocolate maker in Turin When you’re in Turin, one of the things you should absolutely do after (or during) drinking coffee and wandering around the streets marveling at the architecture, is stop in at a chocolate shop to sample one or two (or MORE) of their chocolates. Turin is famous for its chocolate, and especially…
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Crescia Pasqualina (Savoury Cheese Bread)
Easter is a big deal in Italy I realize 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 year on this long weekend, we’ve gone everywhere but Italy, until this year. I…
