When visiting my local market, I am always attracted to the fish mongers. I love looking at all the different types of seafood, and last Saturday this gorgeous Snapper caught my eye. Cooking whole fish in a salt crust is such an easy and stress …
Baccalà is simply salted cod. In Italian, when fresh or frozen, cod is known as merluzzo, if cured by air-drying it becomes stoccafisso (stockfish) and when salted it becomes baccalà. The words stoccafisso and baccalà are often interchanged but it’s interesting to understand the difference. …
Fish’n Chips When I think about eating Fish and Chips, I think about eating them on an Australian beach, wrapped in newspaper, as once was tradition. Well if I’m totally honest when I was younger, newspaper was replaced with white butcher paper. The paper …
Summer in Italy isn’t complete without eating a good plate of ‘fritto’, either as an antipasto or as a main ‘secondo’ after a primo of pasta. Often you will find ‘fritto misto’ on the menu which includes calamari, prawns, and a selection of small fish, …
A traditional Sicilian pasta recipe which I absolutely adore, ‘spaghetti con le sarde’ is spaghetti with sardines, although for this recipe and these photos, I used fresh anchovies instead of sardines. I used fresh anchovies because they were available at the fish market the day …
Although this recipe is traditionally made with sardines, I used fresh anchovies. I visited my fish monger and he didn’t have sardines, but he had a beautiful tray of anchovies already cleaned & filetted… so I decided I’d just make the same recipe with a smaller fish. …
Visiting Venice bought back a culinary memory of a pasta dish that I have always loved but haven’t had for years, Spaghetti Nero di Seppia – Spaghetti with Squid Ink! If you’re not comfortable buying a whole squid/cuttlefish and cleaning it yourself, ask your friendly …
I love pasta, and one of my favourite pasta dishes that I find hard to refuse if it’s on the menu is Spaghetti alle Vongole, which is a traditional dish from Napoli! I will often judge a restaurant on the basis of how good their spaghetti …