Recent Recipes
Pici all’aglione
Vampires beware This is one for the garlic lovers and one that must be shared by lovers. So simple like so many Italian recipes but oh so delicious. Just a…
Torta al Testo
Torta al Testo, the Umbrian flatbread You will find flatbreads in one form or another in every country, cuisine and regional food in the world I think, this one is…
Pici Pasta
Some good things come out of Tuscany We love Umbria, that is why we chose to live here, we love the food, the people, the countryside and just about everything…
Heinzy tomato soup
A childhood memory Heinz tomato soup was me and my Mums favourite when I was young. I have very fond memories of coming home from school for lunch break and…
Arbol’s dab hot chilli sauce
Down the hot sauce rabbit hole I am a fairly recent student of the wonders of Mexican cuisine, a couple of years ago I bought my first cooking book on…
Chilli
My chilli (con carne) The only thing that is certain about the origins of chilli is that it did not originate in Mexico. From tales of a Spanish nun ‘appearing’…
Coconut rice and beans
Rice’n’pea Another recipe that you can probably find a multitude of different recipes for, my version is a kind of riff of Jamaican rice ‘n’ peas. Like a lot of…
My Salade Niçoise
Nothing fishy about my niçoise In a classic salade niçoise, you would normally find boiled potatoes and anchovies, although I have developed a taste since moving to Italia for anchovies,…
Scottish oatcakes
Craker or biscuit? Oatcakes, also sometimes called bannocks are quintessentially Scottish, I think they sit well with the spartan style of Scottish cuisine if there is such a thing, such…
