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Here I am still in Italian mode. If it’s been a theme of the past week, it’s certainly a theme in my life – learning Italian, Italian friends, cooking Italian food more than any other, travelling to Italy at least once or twice a year … and being called Nonna (Italian for grandmother) by my little […]
Read MoreWhen I bought Jamie Oliver’s new book of Christmas cooking a couple of weeks ago, one of the recipes I thought I must try were his cantuccini, with the idea that I could package some up as little gifts. I bought the ingredients at the beginning of the week but life and Christmas shopping got […]
Read MoreWe’re experiencing an unusually long heatwave in London. It normally only lasts a day or two but this one has been going on for at least a couple of weeks. I’m not complaining. I love it. And it’s interesting how it affects one’s appetite – not only how hungry (or not so hungry) you feel, […]
Read MoreWell, after that culinary excursion across the Atlantic at the weekend with my chowder recipe, it didn’t take long for The Single Gourmet Traveller to be hankering after some Italian again. In fact, I went so far as to book myself a little holiday – 3 nights – in Bologna at the end of April, […]
Read MoreI don’t have the usual problem of this time of year: finding ways to use leftover turkey. My brother cooked our family’s Christmas dinner and no turkey came home with me! However, I did have a good amount of lentils left over from yesterday’s new year’s eve meal of Lentils & Sausages. And as I […]
Read MoreWhen my half-Italian/Roman friend Robert said a few years ago that he had to be in Rome for New Year’s Eve to eat lentils and sausages, I have to confess I wasn’t terribly impressed. Lentils and sausages! I’d always celebrated the arrival of a new year with more sophisticated fare. But my knowledge and love […]
Read MoreThis is a Jamie Oliver recipe but I was inspired to cook it not by him, but by my god-daughter Emma and her husband Ben. When I went to their house for Sunday lunch recently, the whole family was there … Emma’s parents, brother, sister … and Ben had cooked two lamb shoulders in this […]
Read MoreI know that I’m guilty of sometimes turning my nose up at short cuts, criticising the inglorious stock cube for instance, but sometimes short cuts have their place and really will do as well. I couldn’t buy a box of dried puy lentils one day in the supermarket so settled – rather uncertainly, it has to […]
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