Spaghetti alle Vongole al Cartoccio
Spaghetti alle Vongole al Cartoccio Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy & dine with me at Ristorante da Ciccio! Spaghetti alle vongole is the classic Italian clam dish. Vongole means ‘clam’ in Italian and I use the small South Australian vongole that are closest to Italy’s vongole veraci, but you can use […]
Bottarga & Lemon Pappardelle
Bottarga & Lemon Pappardelle Like bottarga?You’ll love my online Italian cooking class featuring the food of Sardinia! I love pasta! I also love lemon and bottarga, so I created this simple recipe combining all three. It’s inspired by my friend and co-author, Giovanni Pilu who introduced me to the joys of bottarga along with many […]
Bucatini all’Amatriciana
Bucatini all’Amatriciana Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! I love tomato, cheese and all things quick and easy, so I’m not sure why it took me so long to try my hand at bucatini all’Amatriciana, one of Italy’s classic pasta dishes. Perhaps it’s because guanciale (cured […]
Fettuccine Bolognese
Fettuccine Bolognese Join my Italian Small Group Food & Wine Tour Finishing in Bologna! https://youtu.be/MNEYP5H1Ia0 Slow-cooked meat sauces, called ragùs, are made all over Italy, though the best known comes from Bologna in Emilia-Romagna and is the ancestor of Australia’s beloved ‘spag bol’. Not that it would ever be served with dried spaghetti in Emilia-Romagna […]
Spaghetti Carbonara
Spaghetti Carbonara Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Spaghetti carbonara is a simple Roman pasta with a sauce made creamy by combining egg yolks and hard cheese – it doesn’t contain cream, despite the profusion of recipes using it. The origin of the name is a […]
Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe
Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Cacio e pepe, cheese and pepper – one of the simplest pasta sauces, this Roman classic can also be one of the trickiest to get just right. The idea is to emulsify the cheese with the […]
Mushroom Pappardelle
Mushroom Pappardelle Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! I love mushrooms. ‘Meat for vegetarians’ one advertising campaign called them, and I’d suggest that this super quick mushroom pappardelle is so tasty that even die-hard carnivores won’t miss the meat. In autumn, when wild mushrooms appear in farmers’ […]
Tagliatelle with Pesto
Tagliatelle with Pesto Discover more Italian regional specialties on my small-group food & wine tour of Italy! How often do you buy a bunch of basil, use a dozen leaves or so in a sauce or salad then wonder what to do with the rest? The answer’s easy: make tagliatelle with pesto. Though if you’re […]
Spaghetti Aglio Olio e Peperoncino
Spaghetti Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino Join my food & wine tour to 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 liqueur), hardly […]
Fettuccine with Black Truffle
Fettuccine with Black Truffle Like truffles? Join me for a hands-on truffle hunting food & wine weekend! 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 in Tasmania. Since then truffles have also […]