It’s more than 6 months since I saw my grandson Rex and his mum Jaz, who also happens to be one of my very best friends. In fact I have only seen them half a dozen times in the last 18 months due to my busy travel schedule before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and the…
Category: Baking
Cabbage and mushroom pasties
A few months ago my brother gifted me a rather lovely recipe book entitled Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables. Written by Joshua McFadden, the book basically celebrates vegetables, pulling out the very best of their seasonal flavours to create hearty, loosely Italian themed and mostly vegetarian dishes. My first dish from the book…
Italian lemon and ricotta cake
I’m finding the second lockdown in Italy much tougher than the first. Maybe it’s because winter is upon us and we know this is how things will be at least until the Spring, maybe it’s the relentless online Zoom meetings, a novelty when they started back in March, now anything but. I’m also acutely aware…
Apricot, plum and lavender cake
This weekend we harvested the apricots that grow on the tree behind our house. Last year was a bumper crop but sadly there were very few this year, most likely due to the unseasonally cold and wet conditions during May. So the only option was to make them into a cake, adding a handful of…
Lebanese flatbread
Flatbreads are cooked all over the world from Mexican tortillas to Indian chapatis. These Lebanese flatbread are simple to make and can be eaten with any dish from the Middle East – or indeed anything! Serve soft filed with mezze or falafel, or bake until crisp and serve with dips or soups. This makes 8…
Torta de mela (Italian apple cake)
Winter in Piedmont means that the local farmer’s market is full of apples grown in the rolling hills which surround Mondovi. And that means I have no choice other than to make torta de mela or Italian apple cake! This recipe is adapted from one I found elsewhere with the main difference being that I…
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