Italian food is good for the soul! Despite great regional diversity, northern Italy and southern Italy are united by passion for fresh produce, pasta and the shared table. I love the simplicity and seasonality of la cucina Italiana. Here are some of my favourite Italian recipes.
Prosciutto Wrapped Figs Visit Producers of Prosciutto di Parma & Balsamic Vinegar on my Small Group Italian Food & Wine Tour! Prosciutto wrapped figs is so simple you hardly need a recipe at all. But I know that’s what you like, especially when friends drop by and you’re busy but still want to put something […]
Spaghetti Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino Join my food & wine tour to Rome & Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! The simplest recipes are often the favourites, the ones with the most views on this website are croque monsieur (a.k.a. toasted ham & cheese sandwich) and affogato (ice cream ‘drowned’ in coffee and […]
Asparagus & Goat Cheese Risotto Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Northern Italian cooking class inspired by Alessandro Pavoni! I love asparagus because it’s so easy to prepare as well as being delicious. And I love combining it with two of my other favourite foods, rice and goat cheese, in this simple asparagus and […]
Classic Tiramisu Eat Tiramisu in Treviso with me on my small-group food & wine tour to Veneto & Venice! Desserts don’t get much easier than classic tiramisu, a delicious combination of coffee-dipped sponge biscuits layered with mascarpone lightened with beaten eggs. Meaning ‘pick me up’ in Italian, tiramisu is a relatively new creation, first appearing […]
Fettuccine with Black Truffle Like Fettuccine with Black Truffle? Join me for a hands-on truffle hunting food & wine weekend – see video below! For many of us, one of the highlights of winter is truffles. But it wasn’t always so in Australia. On 18 June 1999 Duncan Garvey harvested Australia’s first Perigord black truffle […]
Pollo alla Diavola Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more delicious Italian fare! Pollo alla diavola (devil’s chicken) is the typical Italian dish for spatchcocked chicken. What does spatchcock mean? It’s a method of preparing any poultry or game bird for cooking by removing the backbone and flattening it out – […]
Affogato Join my small-group food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Depending on the ratio of ice cream to coffee, affogato appears on either coffee or dessert menus in cafés and Italian restaurants everywhere. Affogato means “drowned” in Italian, and in its simplest form it hardly needs a recipe: just […]
Croque Monsieur Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class Inspired by Damien Pignolet! Croque monsieur is perhaps just a ham and cheese toastie with a fancy name, but it’s still one of my favourite weekend brunch dishes, and also perfect for those lazy stay-at-home Sunday nights in front of the TV. Its […]
Beef Tagliata Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! In Italy, steak is usually served sliced into strips, which I think looks much more appealing than a big slab of meat on the plate. It’s called bistecca tagliata – tagliata meaning ‘cut’. Beef tagliata is often served with […]
Italian Stuffed Artichokes Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! I love artichokes, one of the first spring vegetables to appear in greengrocers. I love them finely shaved raw in a salad, deep-fried Roman-style (carciofi alla Giudia), and preserved on an antipasto platter. But most of all I […]