Tag: tomato

Polenta with Aubergine, Tomato & Pine Nut Sauce

.Reading time 9 minutes.

Writing about the maize for polenta growing in the fertile plains of the Po Valley in Northern Italy in my last post set up a longing for some polenta. Polenta is a relatively new love of mine. My first experiences of it were of glutinous and tasteless lumps that didn’t inspire me to cook it myself. […]

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Pasta alla Norma – Pasta with Aubergine, Tomato & Basil

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Well, 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, […]

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