A Caprese salad encompasses most of the things that I love about Italian food, it’s simple, fresh, and the ingredients need to be up to par to make it a wonderful eating experience. I got to thinking about the flavours involved and how I could serve it as a single bite that would involve all [...]

Crisp tubes of deep fried pastry full of creamy sweetened ricotta, it’s hard to go past this iconic Sicilian dessert for iconic Italian food. I found a recipe on the internet but unfortunately for most people it was in Italian, I have translated it for everyone to enjoy.

I hate the word Rustic, it conjures up childhood images of ugly farm furniture featuring worn out paint and the design of something that a 5 year old would be capable of, because of this mental imagery I am reluctant to call this dish Rustic but would happily class it as simple home-style Italian, or [...]

Cooked cream doesn’t sound too appealing but it you say it in a foreign more romantic language it’s going to have mouths watering. Panna Cotta can look as elegant as it is simple to make, and you can throw it together well ahead of time with ingredients you probably already have around the house. Past [...]

I love Pizza! It is one of the things that I am usually very pedantic about when eating out, often avoiding eating it unless I know the eatery by experience or reputation. Usually I enjoy a simple clean approach, the Margarita was my usual choice in Italy, sometimes I would embellish a little and add [...]