Italian Kiwi – Recipes, Travel, and More!
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Butternut Squash And Radicchio Tart
Making the most of Winter vegetables before they disappear I’m jumping in here with a winter-y recipe just before the season ends completely. Some of you may be snarling at this right now as you’re still up to your knees in snowdrifts, but where I am, Spring has definitely started with a vengeance.…
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Snow-Shoeing In The Susa Valley, Italy
Snow-shoeing, appendicitis, and roundabouts So, decadently holidaying and snowshoeing wasn’t actually where I was last week. This was a little jaunt I went on about a month ago at the same time I was watching other people ski while drinking a Bombardino or two. Last week I was actually in hospital with my eldest…
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Bombardino Drinking, Snow And Ski Fun in Sauze d’Oulx
Bombardinos are an excellent reason to go to the mountains in Italy One of the joys of being in the mountains in Italy in the Winter while have a break from skiing or snow-shoeing, or sunbathing, is drinking a deliciously potent Bombardino that you find in cafes on the ski slopes. Well, actually, you…
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Nutella Crostoli: Italian Carnival Pastries
What happens during Carnival in Europe? It’s Carnival time in Europe right now! In France, that means that Nice on the Cote d’Azur has an enormous parade and a flower-throwing battle and the children get to dress up in costumes and throw confetti around (but more about that later). In Italy, for Carnevale, people…
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Yoyo Biscuits, Escalator Rides, And The “Two Things” Rule
The excitement of going to town when I was a kid When I was a kid growing up on a farm in New Zealand, we used to get to visit “The Town” a handful of times a year. It was always a very exciting trip. We would get dressed in our best clothes,…
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Pasta e Fagioli (Pasta And Bean Soup)
The Ultimate Italian Comfort Food When it’s cold and damp outside, I love to have a hearty bowl of Pasta e Fagioli (pasta and dried bean soup). There are many ways to make it in Italy. It’s one of those recipes that everyone makes slightly differently and are sure that their way is the right…
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Turin Lights Up The Night For Christmas
It’s Christmas Time! Christmas is come and gone but the lights linger on. Every year in Turin from the beginning of November to mid-January they hold the Luci d’Artista (Artist’s Lights). They’re really spectacular! Every year in Turin, Italy, they ask different artists to decorate various streets and squares in the centre of the city…
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Baci Di Dama
The joy of choosing tiny pastries Baci di Dama are cookies that you find in pasticcerias all over the region of Piedmont in Northern Italy. We always choose to have a few when we go in to order a tray of pasticcini. I adore this Italian tradition of picking up a tray full of all…
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Christmas Tree Cookies
What to make when you can’t give a present My younger son’s teacher laid down the law in his class this Christmas, and said that she wanted NO Christmas presents from the families. In fact, she’s getting the kids to do a “reverse advent calendar” this month instead. Each day, a different child…
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Mothballs: A Sweet Treat From New Zealand
Don’t be deceived by the unappetizing name Since the holidays season is here, over the next few weeks on Italian Kiwi, I’m going to be sharing recipes for sweet treats and cookies that you can make for this time of the year. Christmas is a great excuse to load yourself up with sugar.…
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Black Olive Tapenade
It’s the season for tree-beating Over the last month, in the fields all over Southern Italy, and on the Cote d’Azur in France, people have been whacking trees with sticks. This may seem like strange, and relatively cruel treatment for some poor trees who did nothing but stand there and help to prevent…
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Bread, Celery and Apple Stuffing
The perfect stuffing for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving has crept up on us with the stealth of a lion stalking its prey. Where does the time rush off to in such a hurry? Sometimes I with I had a brake-pedal so I could slow everything down just a little. If Thanksgiving is launching itself…
