It’s been a while.
I’d almost forgotten how much I like meatballs cooked in thick, velvety tomato sauce and that when they are good and carefully made, they are surely one of the most gratifying of comfort foods.
Especially, when they are made in the morning from good freshly ground beef and then they have the rest [...]
When Vincenzo isn’t home for lunch and therefore pasta isn’t obligatory I will most likely have one of my solitary lunch favorites – of which there are about 7 – which I eat whilst doing the crossword.
This is one of them.
Two slices of lightly toasted pane di Lariano, a dollop of sun dried tomato paste [...]
My copy of David Tanis’s ‘A platter of figs’ falls open in the most familiar way at page 171………there is even a faint, careless, circular coffee cup stain. Two clues which suggest I have made it dozens of times…….I haven’t….. I have just looked at page 171 rather alot.
Having said that…. it is a little [...]
There is something playful and delightful about fusilli pasta, it’s short twisted spirals…….
After all, they are just a little bit silli, as in silly – a gentle, amusing, childlike kind of silly, the nicest kind of silly. Fusilli make me smile in the same way as those pink and white twisty marshmallows, corkscrew aniseed sweets, [...]
Are very nice indeed.
Red, ripe, sweetly fruity but nicely acidic small plum tomatoes, cut in two, sprinkled with salt, doused in extra virgin olive oil and roasted slowly, slowly….until they are withered and wrinkled, curly at the edges and sticky with intense tomato goodness.
See… I knew withered and wrinkled could be beautiful, when I get [...]
I made this last weekend.
Cannellini beans, grilled courgettes, tomatoes with a very very green basil dressing.
It was very nice.
Is is such a good combination of flavours and textures, the meaty, nutty beans with strips of sweet slightly charred courgette, tiny, red, flavorsome plum tomatoes and loads of extremely green basil dressing, best eaten with a [...]
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