French Beans with a Sweet Pepper & Tomato Sauce

Years ago, when  I was regularly cooking family meals and hosting dinner parties, Marcella Hazan’s Fagiolini verdi con peperoni e pomodoro – French beans with peppers and tomatoes – from her iconic The Classic Italian Cookbook, was a favourite side dish to make. It’s a great dish to accompany simply cooked meat – like grilled or […]

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Marcella Hazan’s Ragu

The great cookery writer and mother of Italian cooking, Marcella Hazan, died last Sunday, 29 September, at the age of 89. As I’ve written before (click here), I regularly made a Ragu – Bolognese sauce – on Fridays and tonight I decided to follow Marcella’s recipe in her The Classic Italian Cookbook carefully as a tribute to her. […]

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