Tag: salt
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Fennel Bulb And Orange Salad
On being introduced to fennel bulbs This isn’t so much a recipe as such, as it is an introduction to a vegetable I never knew you could eat before I set foot in Italy. In New Zealand, where I grew up, fennel was known as a herb that you sprinkled over…
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Summery Rocket Salad
I’m in salad mode right now, as you can see from my pasta salad post last week, and now this rocket salad post this week! The weather’s getting warmer all the time and my tiny tomato plants that my neighbour gave me are starting to actually look as though they’re not going to die, so…
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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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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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Meatballs with Peas (Polpette con Piselli)
This recipe for polpette con piselli (meatballs with peas) is another great classic from my mother-in-law, Bianca. Friends of my husband who grew up eating these often at his parents’ place in Turin have been bugging me to put up this recipe for a while, so here it is! Polpette con piselli a wonderful “make…
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Tagliatelle and Chickpeas (Ciceri e Tria)
I’m sure that right now you’re saying, either aloud and making all your work-mates turn to look at you, or more sensibly, in your head so that nobody knows that you’re not working, “What the heck is Ciceri e Tria??!!!”. Well, that’s what I said when I first heard of these words when we…
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Asparagus with Parmesan Cheese
The first local asparagus has hit the shops! No, not literally….that would be very messy…and maybe dangerous. Have you ever been poked in the eye with an uncooked asparagus spear? In a stupid story that I’m not going to go into here, I have and I can tell you that it hurts! I…
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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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Penne Pasta With Sausage and Spinach
This pasta with a sauce of sausage and spinach is another one of those sneaky recipes I use to get yet more spinach into the stomachs of my spinach-phobic children! With the tomato puree and the sausage, they hardly even notice the green flecks, especially if I grate a mountain of Pecorino cheese…
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Risotto with Sausage and Borlotti Beans
How to make risotto two ways As promised, here’s risotto made the traditional way….be eternally grateful to me now, as I only did it this way for you instead of using my pressure cooker. 🙂 This recipe comes from my wonderful mother-in-law who makes this dish far better than I can! It’s a…
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Risotto With Scamorza And Bresaola
Why you need to buy a pressure cooker A good Italian friend of mine introduced me to the wonders of the pressure cooker and risotto making a few years ago. It is often used in Italian households and I’ve adopted its use with great gusto. Instead of having to stand over a hot…
