She roared like a wild boar!
Wild boar with Olives and Herbs
Italian
Pick me up Tuscan style
Tiramisu: My first trip to Tuscany was so eventful, I’m amazed I ever wanted to go back! Amidst the stress of manoeuvring through the tiny Italian side streets and almost getting locked outside the city walls and having to hitch a lift back in, added to the holidays’ charm! People are often surprised that I …
The key to great gnocchi
Gnocchi with pesto Last week I did something I have never done before. Entering a darkened room before lunch felt unusual with only a few others present. We were the brave ones. Bucking the trend. Going against the grain of what most were doing before lunch on a weekday. The feeling of this being unruly behaviour stems …
Trick or Treat Vs Bar Humbug
Butternut Squash risotto About now you will find a bowl of pumpkin scoopings lurking in the fridge…..patiently waiting. But this year I went one better. I had a whole un-carved pumpkin acting as a trick or treating beacon, that did not receive any love. In light of my new attitudes and being kind to myself, …
Pasta Loco
Pasta Loco I ‘m sometimes reticent to go out for pasta as it is one of those fuss-free things to do at home, but Pasta Loco Bristol OMG: This was another level! Far from the pasta my Nonna used to make this is pasta elevated. Rich, indulgent and full of flavour. We started with the salt cod …
Fig, mozzarella and prosciutto salad
Fig, mozzarella and prosciutto salad This week was like bumping into an ex but knowing that it was going to happen as I travelled back to a city where I had a whole other life. If Cardiff was an ex we didn’t finish on good terms, in fact, the split was messy and caused some heartache, …
Risotto style rice and peas with salmon
Risotto style rice with peas and salmon If food made with love tastes better, then surely a world filled with love would be more palatable too. In times when there are such displays of hate, it feels even more important to hold love in our hearts on a daily basis so that this echoes out …
Spinach and ricotta cannelloni
Spinach and ricotta cannelloni If we didn’t judge we wouldn’t survive. Somehow, this was quite a revelation to me this week. To judge is to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions…we indeed wouldn’t survive if we didn’t do this on a daily basis. I suppose what I feel I am struggling with is the negative connotation …
Stuffed chicken breast in Parma ham
Stuffed chicken breast with Parma ham I never once bunked off school….maybe I took an extra day to ‘recover’ but I played it pretty straight! So enter stage left 7 year old son, slightly flushed and hiding under the fleece on the sofa this week. Mummy, I can’t go to school today… You know that …
Aubergine Parmigiana
Aubergine parmigana I’m giving up meat for Lent. That’s what my 13 year old self-said a few decades ago to my mum!! She flawlessly countered this by offering me the keys to the kitchen. Being a parent now, and knowing all about phases, I’m sure my mum thought I’d be back to normal carnivore duties …