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Recent posts

Intorchiate – lemon and almond twists
Chicken Cacciatora
Crema della nonna in Bassano del Grappa
Crostata di crema di Viviana
Mandarin, almond and chocolate cake

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Yesterday with 2 hours to go before class I counted up the biscuits I had to serve class participants and realised I didn’t quite have enough for morning tea (I just may have eaten too many the day before...). A quick internet search using cinnamon led me to tozzetti ebraici by @emikodavies on @food52 - they should be made with hazelnuts (I had none) so I used almonds. The darker colour is from a mix of bitter cocoa and cinnamon. I whipped them up in time for class and I think everyone was pretty happy

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Perfect Sunday night after a busy weekend : potato gnocchi cooking class leftovers with a glass of wine and series 2 of Borgen on tv

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Playing scopa with mamma a few days ago. After going through a rough patch she seems to be on the mend

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I had these rather large flat sweet biscotti with sultanas in them when I was in Bologna a few years ago. They were a sort of morning coffee or breakfast biscuit, maybe with some fine polenta/cornmeal in them (as they look quite yellow) perfect for dunking in caffelatte. I loved them but have totally forgotten what they were! I know they weren’t zaleti (which are Venetian and made with fine corn meal) these ones were less crumbly - maybe you know?

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Hand rolled orecchiette and sunshine

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What a stunning day at @villa_floretti_flowers yesterday for our food and flowers workshop. Richelle Marks has a stunning protea farm on the Mornington Peninsula and it was a perfect place to make pasta and crostata, sip rosè and make bunches of flowers. A huge thank you to Richelle for opening her home to us, to dear Monica @sumisuraitaly for being a wonderful help in the kitchen and to Annette for running the flower posey making part of the day. Thank you to all the lovely ladies who came along and made pasta and crostata with me, I loved cooking with you and our chats about Italy (hope to see some of you on tour in Puglia next year!). The workshop sold out very quickly so we are looking forward to running more soon

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High rotation honey ricotta cake with cinnamon scattered on top ready to devour - recipe by the very clever @tessakiros from her beautiful cookbook about Greece

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