The summer is here (almost anyway) and the BBQ season is in full swing, the burgers have been eaten and the sausages (so far) have been edible! Although there are only so many burgers and bangers one can eat, so I have decided to do something a little different this weekend.
Spatchcock chicken with a citrus marinade. – To start you will need to spatchcook your chicken. Read More…
Photography by Leanne Capuzziello
It’s a beautiful Sunday morning and there is only one thing on my mind…… the desire to make pasta, I want to make something light and delicate that will reflect the lovely summers day.
To make the pasta dough I have used the following ingredients; Read More…
Photography by Leanne Capuzziello
I have very fond memories of my Nonna filling up bottles (often beer bottles) and jars with tomatoes and preserving these tasty little fruits, she would do this every year without fail right into her later years and considered it to be a very important job in preparation for the winter.
Times have changed and you can pick up a tin of tomato’s or bottle of passatas in almost any local super market, so why would you bother to make your own which is a very time consuming process when you get the same result out of tin… Well, apart from being a nostalgic process which transports me to hot summer evenings in Italy were I can still smell all the delicious flavours in the air…The taste of freshly preserved tomato’s just doesn’t compare to anything you can buy. Read More…
