The best green and pasta salad recipes.
If you’re like me and love slow cooked meats that fall off the bone and melt in your mouth, then I assume pork is also one of your favourites. I love the convenience and ease of throwing everything into a pot and leaving it to …
The word Lasagne doesn’t have to equate to layers of steaming hot pasta and in this recipe I’ve given it a Summer twist. Pane Guttiau is a wafer thin flatbread from Sardegna. Similar to ‘pane Carasau’, Pane Guttiau is usually seasoned with salt, rosemary and …
Summer is a wonderful time of the year for both sweet and savoury recipes, with Summer fruit often being a protagonist to many dishes. I love creating interesting salads utilising Summer fruit and although I love it all, nectarines are definitely up there with being …
Rome is experiencing such sweltering, hot weather at the moment that the idea of cooking and turning on the oven isn’t really very appealing at all. I am happy to eat salads every day and so to keep things interesting and creative, I am trying …
This is such a quick and easy salad to throw togther, essential to make during Summer when you’ll find fresh and seasonal summer fruits in abundance at your local market. In this recipe, savoury and sweet flavours marry well together, and although this would be …
Caesar Salad is delicious all year round but is particularly enjoyed as a meal during the hot Summer months. I’ve ordered this a couple of times while out in Italy, and it’s usually a little disappointing. My favourite go to recipe for Caesar Salad is my …
Offer some people a salad and many would think of a boring bowl of lettuce to be eaten as a side dish or a sign you’re on a diet. A salad doesn’t have to be boring and the word salad for me covers a myriad of ingredient combinations. …
We are still at the beach and I’ve noticed that every day we have a lot of bread left over. I hate throwing it away, and so I decided to make a very easy, ‘poor man’s dish’ that I discovered years ago when I started …
I’ve only been back in Rome a little more than 24 hours, and I’m already missing the large supply of mangoes that were available at my father’s house every day. His wife Fina made this wonderful mango salad last Saturday for a family BBQ we …
Although I have lived in Italy since 1998, I honestly don’t think I ever knew what ‘Puntarelle’ were until I moved to Rome to live. Available in winter, Puntarelle are the inner stalks of Catalonian chicory (the outer stalks are extremely bitter eaten raw …