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Carote di Bianca (Slow-cooked Carrots)
www.italiankiwi.com Bianca is my mother-in-law, who I’ve mentioned quite a few times before in various posts. Every so often she makes these wonderful carrots as a side dish…….I have to admit that it...
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Macarons: Misadventures and Secret Tips
www.italiankiwi.com I’ve tried making macarons quite a few times only to end up with gummy, chewy messes. I decided that it was time to rectify this, so went off to a course on making them recently....
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Ciceri e Tria (Fresh Tagliatelle and Chickpeas)
www.italiankiwi.com 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,...
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Limoncello
www.italiankiwi.com The first digestivo (after dinner drink) I ever tried was limoncello. It was a very memorable moment; not only for the fact that I took my first sip of this concentrated lemon...
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Spezzatino (Beef Stew)
www.italiankiwi.com Winter’s rolling in. There’s frost on the grass in the mornings and ice on the car windows. Though, luckily where I live (at least in my opinion!), the temperature then rises to...
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Focaccia di Leonarda
www.italiankiwi.com I had the pleasure of watching Leonarda, a friend of mine from Puglia, make focaccia last week. I had tried over the years to make focaccia but for some reason, no matter what I...
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Pavlova: The Giant Meringue from New Zealand.
www.italiankiwi.com So, already with the title I wrote “Pavlova: the Giant Meringue from New Zealand”, I’ve made any Australians reading this fume and yell at their computer screens, “But it comes from...
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Torta con Crema e Fragole (Strawberry Tart with Crema)
www.italiankiwi.com Strawberries are everywhere right now, except in my garden. At the moment I have lots of plants, some of which have flowers, but nary a strawberry in sight. I’m hoping that...
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Plum and Cherry Sorbet
www.italiankiwi.com “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...
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Spaetzle: Alto Adige’s Ingenious Answer to Pasta
www.italiankiwi.com The kids are back at school. All is quiet on the Cote d’Azur as the tourists have flown back to the far corners of Europe from whence they came. We can start thinking about Autumn...
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Hot Cross Buns
www.italiankiwi.com Easter is nearly here. I can hear the hoppity-hop of little bunny paws as they stuff their baskets with Easter eggs…..well, there must be more than one Easter Bunny, right?...
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Spanish Tapas: Tiny Battered and Fried Whole Fish
www.italiankiwi.com This month of July, I’m kicking off the first post on Spanish Tapas Month! Tapas are small amounts of various dishes that are put on the table to share. They are perfect for the hot...
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Turkey: Make The Juiciest One Ever!
www.italiankiwi.com I can’t believe it’s the beginning of November already! What’s happened to the rest of the year? It feels as though I’ve just put away the New Year’s Celebration things, went to...
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Rainbow Chard With Pine Nuts And Raisins
www.italiankiwi.com In my village a new, furtive fruit and vegetable seller recently appeared. A few times during the week, you need to wander through the cobbled streets and, if you’re lucky, you’ll...
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Pancake Day! Buckwheat Flour Crepes
www.italiankiwi.com Pancake Day has come and gone, but the need to eat them still lingers on…….it was Pancake Day (or Chandeleur) a month ago in France (and I think in a lot of the world), and we did...
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Muscat Grape Sorbet (Sorbetto all’Uva)
Fall is fast approaching. The mornings are cooling off and, at least where I live, the olives are swelling on the trees and the tomato plants are starting to go brown. I love this time of year as all...
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Bread, Celery and Apple Stuffing
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...
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