Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
OK. So I’ve said a few times before that The Single Gourmet Traveller is not a great baker and it is in fact very rare for me to bake a cake these days, now that my kids are well and truly grown up and I’m no longer trying to piece together cakes in the shape […]
Read MoreAfter my lovely time at Moro yesterday talking to Samuel Clark, I was able to enjoy reading Casa Moro on the way home as he’d kindly given me a copy. My collection of Moro books is now complete and I can see this one will become a firm favourite too. I’ll also have to watch […]
Read MoreI know I leave myself open to accusations of hubris in claiming this recipe as a ‘classic’ Tiramisu. But writing about my own favourite recipe on the blog is as much a reaction against the many bad – even terrible – Tiramisus found in restaurants as wanting to share one I consider both authentic and […]
Read MoreI had a small family supper here last night and we ended up with a rather eclectic mix of some of my favourite things rather than my usual themed – i.e. all Italian, French or maybe Moroccan – food. I was talking canapes with my son the day before and rather inevitably our discussion went […]
Read MoreWriting my post a week ago about Moroccan Meatballs and remembering my first visit to Marrakesh got me in the mood for more Moroccan food and so tonight’s supper was all about the taste and flavours and wonderful memories of that exciting country. I was last in Marrakesh in 2008 staying in a beautiful riad […]
Read MoreTorta Caprese is a wonderful chocolate and almond cake that comes from the island of Capri, just off Naples (see Torta Caprese e un pranzo italiano post). When I was on the nearby island of Ischia last September with my daughter Nicola, we had a lovely lemon version of the cake and I’ve been meaning […]
Read MoreIt wasn’t intended to be a Single Gourmet Traveller meal; it just turned out that way. It was always going to be Italian though with the handing over of the keys to their Rome flat to Robert and Jenny. Lovely Peppers Piedmontese to start, a delicious Lamb with Fennel and Marsala from No.7 of my […]
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