lasagne estive This Lasagna is all the ingredients of Summer for me! Fresh tomatoes cooked into a tomato sugo, capsicums roasted and peeled for their succulent flesh, eggplants from the garden sliced and charred over a hot grill, and finely summer basil for a herbal sweet fresh flavour. A lasagna for the Summer Season Of…
spaghetti con frutti di mare seafood with spaghetti The food that comes to mind when I think of a summer day with sun kissed skin from swimming in the salty sea, is ‘spaghetti con frutti di mare’! It conjures memories of sitting by the water’s edge in Lipari (the largest of the Aeolian Islands north…
gnocchi di ricotta with cavoletti di bruxelles, aglio, pancetta & mandorle ricotta gnocchi with brussels sprouts, garlic, bacon & almonds I feel there is a general consensus on Brussels sprouts; you either love them or loathe them! It was the latter for me as a child, however, I don’t think anyone (even brussels sprouts aficionados)…
Rotolo Al Forno Rotolo Bake Whilst I enjoy a traditional ‘rotolo’, I have simplified it in this recipe titled “Rotolo Bake” using fresh pasta sheets filled with a mixture of silverbeet & ricotta, (essentially, a silverbeet & ricotta cannelloni), cut in half, sat upright in a large saucepan, filled with a thick bath of sugo.…
Spaghetti Fritti fried spaghetti This recipe is my mum’s and she cooked it often when we were growing up. ‘Spaghetti Fritti’ means fried spaghetti and with the inclusion of eggs, it resembles a large frittata. Essentially, it is another way to dish up pasta – in cake size pieces – a novelty for all, especially the…