I love pasta, I’d eat it everyday if I had to, without any form of complaint. It’s such a versatile product which can be eaten hot or cold with such an array of other ingredients that I fail to see how it could be called boring. My mother on the other hand, only likes baked [...]
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I absolutely love pasta, in any shape or form providing of course it’s cooked well and remains al dente; my mother however will only eat baked pasta (pasta al forno). So in order to fulfil my craving for carbs in the form of pasta and her likes/dislikes I set about finding another interesting lasagna recipe; I [...]
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Despite owning The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller for nearly a year now, yesterday shamefully was the first time I’d actually cooked from it. I have often referred to the book for ideas and inspiration when I wanted to try something new. The photography, the writing, and the restaurants legacy have all spurred me on with new [...]
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With all the chatter about pasticcio & pastitsio over on Violets Pantry a food forum I frequent and on Pistachio’s blog, I began to crave this Mediterranean comfort food. So what really is the difference between pasticcio and pastitsio? Well for a starting point, pasticcio is Italian and pastitsio is Greek, they are both layered [...]
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It has been a long time since I ate seafood lasagna, one of my favourite pasta dishes, so I decided to have a go at recreating it. From what I can gather Lasagna Pesce al Forno (seafood lasagna) is a Venetian speciality and one of the very few examples of Italian seafood dishes that contains cheese. [...]
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While on holiday in Assisi last May, yes really that long ago, I came across some wild boar sausages (cinghiale) in a tiny Bottega. I had no idea what I would make with them, all I knew was that I had to have them, so I bought them. They spent several months sitting in my [...]
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