Festive flavours
12:12:2011
My gloriously rich, yet lighter-than-light zabaglione is scented with Christmassy flavours including Marsala Superiore which is matured in oak casks for at least 2 years.
Christmas crostini
02:12:2011
Once cooled, the bases are spread with a rich and indulgent blue cheese cream, before being topped with caramelised pear slices – soft and hot inside, with a sweet crunchy caramel on their exterior.
Buon Natale!
02:12:2011
There can be few other places on this planet that ‘do’ family meals quite like the Italians.
Perfect pastries
15:11:2011
Every restaurant and market I came across in Greece was selling Baklava – beautiful little golden squares of filo pastry layered with butter and nuts and gilded with super-sweet sugar syrup
French fancies
20:10:2011
However, before my visit to Corsica I had never used chestnut flour. I’ve been on a mission ever since to find some fabulous recipes and uses for it.
All about the olives
03:10:2011
In fact, the olive is so precious to the people of Corsica that each year they have a festival devoted to the gorgeous little fruit.
Potty about Padron peppers!
19:09:2011
With horns tooting, fire crackers exploding and streamers being fired into the air this convoy is just the start of a tremendous festival that goes on long into the night.
Sensational seafood
05:09:2011
When accompanied by a quick and easy, paprika-enriched aioli as they are in my latest recipe, for me, calamari don’t get much better!
Sun, sea & slow cooking
20:07:2011
Slightly stumped at the prospect of digging a firepit in my small city garden, I have instead created a summery lamb Kleftico recipe perfect for slow cooking at a low temperature in the oven, leaving the cook to enjoy the best of the English summer outside.
Essential oils
19:07:2011
‘Butter’ I am told in Chania market ‘is never used’. Instead pastries, cakes and desserts are all made with olive oil and if the dainty morsels I tasted, fresh from the oven at 6am in the local bakery are anything to go by, this is a secret well worth discovering!
