Potato Dauphinoise
If you love potatoes, then you will adore this recipe. Eaten as a side dish, or enjoyed all by themselves, this is a comfort dish that will leave a smile on your face and in your belly! I only recently bought a mandolin and so …
Vegetables
Sweetcorn Fritters with Roast Sweet Potato
Recently while walking through my favourite food store Castroni, I was surprised to spy a can of creamed corn on the shelves and my mind was taken back to ‘corn fritters’! To be honest, we would sometimes have the creamed corn served hot on toast …
Vellutata di Broccolo Romanesco
After indulging for the whole month of December, it’s time to return to some healthier habits. The best way for me to do this during winter is by preparing soup, and this recipe is one that I love because it is so quick, easy and …
Sformato di Asparagi – Asparagus Flan
Spring in Italy means it’s time to take advantage of wonderful new seasonal vegetables and the markets just happen to be overflowing with beautiful bunches of Asparagus at the moment! I love to eat Asparagus with a crunchy bite to it, so if the Asparagus spears are …
Perfect Roast Potatoes
Nothing makes my heart (and belly) sing more than a perfect roast potato. Crunchy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside with a light sprinkling of good quality salt flakes, these definitely belong to the Royal Family of ‘comfort foods’. It’s not really hard to achieve …
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
I’ll admit that I hated Brussels Sprouts as a child, always leaving them last on my plate. Had we had them roasted though, we may have been a bit more enthusiastic about eating them. In fact, I’ve decided that roasting Brussels Sprouts with some salt …
Roasted Chickpeas
Having discovered that simply roasting chickpeas results in an addictive salty and crispy snack was bad enough, but discovering that they are also a healthy, low fat, high fiber, and whole food snack, was probably something I didn’t need to know. That was all the information …
La Vignarola
Nothing celebrates Spring vegetables in Rome better than this wonderfully versatile Roman dish, and it’s something I make often as soon as I see the artichokes in season. I have only been making Vignarola since I moved to Rome, but it has quickly become …
Puntarelle – Roman Chicory
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 …