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Spinach and Ricotta Self-Crusting Mini-Quiches
Even spinach haters like these Spinach is one of those poor maligned vegetables that everyone loves to hate, but happily eats when it’s mixed in with other ingredients, such as eggs or cheese. Even my kids, who vow and declare that they detest spinach, gobble it up when it’s “hidden”. I put…
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Hazelnut Meringues
I often make recipes that need egg yolks, but not the whites. What to do with them? Well, now I have my wonderful KitchenAid mixer, I usually make meringues. This time, since I had some hazelnuts from Piemonte, I decided to add them into the mix to make hazelnut meringues. The hazelnuts from…
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Spelt and Chickpea Soup
When the cold weather hits, it’s time for soup I think we’ve been picked up by Dorothy’s tornado and transported somewhere not half as interesting as Oz. We live in a place where it hardly ever rains, until a couple of weeks ago. It started and pretty much hasn’t stopped since. My husband…
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Salone Del Gusto 2014, Turin, Italy
This post is a little different from my regular ones. It’s not about cooking and doesn’t have a recipe, but it IS still about food! So, bear with me. I want to tell you all about it as it’s such an important event in the food world. The Salone del Gusto (“Tasting Fair”in English: sounds…
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Celery And Parmesan Cheese Salad
Have you ever had white celery? I hadn’t until I came to Italy for the first time. I’d only ever seen the green stuff, with which I had a very dubious relationship. I don’t like peanut butter, so smothering it in that goop so that I could eat the celery was out of the question,…
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Sardines With Red Onions (Sarde in Saor)
Sarde in Saor; better late than never I’m a little late with this traditional Venetian recipe for Sarde in Saor (Fresh sardines with red onions). One year has already flown past at the speed of light since we were in Venice. I’m not sure where it went. I had all these great plans…
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Dutch Pancakes with Bacon (Pannekoeken)
Discovering delicious food in Amsterdam Yes, you’re completely right, this is NOT an Italian recipe. Every now and then it’s good to mix it up a little! This is a recipe for Dutch pannekoeken (pancakes) with bacon. You don’t actually need to eat them with bacon. You can have them with cheese,…
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Emma’s Date Scones
A short introduction I’m back! I’m sorry I’ve been away for so long, but the Summer got a little bit crazy! I had lots of fun in Italy in the Dolomiti mountains, which I’ll be writing about in the coming weeks, but for now, I wanted to start off the “beginning of the year”…
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Plum and Cherry Sorbet
“We REALLY need to have some sorbet,” my husband decided yesterday. I had a look in our fruitbowl: three rotten peaches, 2 fuzzy apricots, some cherries and some plums, but not enough of anything to make a single flavour sorbet. What to do? Have you ever eaten a sorbet that has more than one fruit…
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Pasta with Tuna and Borlotti Beans
Pasta with tuna and borlotti beans is a favourite in our house when we want a tasty, but quick pasta sauce. It’s great as all the ingredients come out of cans, so they can be stored in the cupboard for the occasion when you look in the fridge and realise that either you…
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Risotto With Shrimps, Peas and Saffron
I found some fresh peas in the supermarket the other day and decided that I needed to eat them immediately, if not sooner……but how to have them? My mind worked furiously….hmmm…I suddenly remembered the kids were at the canteen at school this lunchtime, so they wouldn’t be home to complain about eating…
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Venetian Butter Cookies (Bussolai Buranei)
The Venetian butter cookies that you’ve been longing to hear about Last year we went for a trip to Venice, and I suddenly realized that the time has drifted away and I’ve told you nothing yet about our time there! So, today I’m going to rectify that. Sorry that I’ve kept you in…
