This panful needs a nice rest, it will be delicious by the time I get back from work, better tomorrow, and as good the day after, flavours deep and rich from a good wallow. I am not sure it will last that long.
Oh, I am sure some of you will argue you can’t reheat Ratatouille [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 31, 2009
Ratatouille
March 24, 2009
Asparagus and asparagus frittata.
‘Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.’
Charles Lamb
I think asparagus is the most beautiful vegetable, especially when it is fine stemmed, at once delicate and tender, but with freshly picked firmness sporting compact and violet tinted tips. I picked up two delicious bunches at the market today, which in the absence of the sun- which has been [...]
March 19, 2009
Roasted red onion, green bean and parmesan salad.
I was trying my best not to leap around like an overexcited five year old yelping the sun the sun the sun until I went to teach my class of 23 five year olds this morning. I arrived at school during their break and was greeted by a joyous frenzy of sun soaked happiness as [...]
March 11, 2009
A mess, a stock and caponata.
Caponata aside, it’s not been the best of weeks in our kitchen. It’s been pretty dreadful actually, with me limping from one culinary disappointment to the next, cooking up small disasters along the way. It was as if the culinary equivalent of a computer virus infected me, erratic and unexplained behavior, partially deleted memory which [...]
March 4, 2009
Spinach soup
If I had started this blog earlier last year it could well have been called spinach soup and other stories because in April I made and then we consumed more spinach soup than I care to remember.
For some reason I became obsessed with cooking up vast pans of the stuff. It was variations on a [...]
March 1, 2009
Bottarga di muggine or grey mullet bottarga.
I have to admit that for some time I called bottarga, bottega. Finally a friend quietly suggested that maybe (she is a gentle and diplomatic soul) I meant bottarga, ‘bottega‘ she explained ‘is Italian for workshop, you don’t really want one of those with your spaghetti.’ A mild mistake I know, but I can’t help [...]
