Pasta is the perfect quick and easy comfort food. You can whip up a bowl in less time than it takes for the pizza delivery to arrive. Short or long, dried or fresh, saucy or not, stuffed, layered, baked – the possibilities are endless with this simple, delicious food.
Pesto Tagliatelle Join one of my food & wine tours to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! 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 pesto, the famous bright green […]
Chicken Minestrone Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Northern Italian cooking class inspired by Alessandro Pavoni! Literally meaning ‘big soup’, minestrone is a hearty Italian dish half way between a soup and a stew. Vegetable-based, it was traditionally made from leftovers and whatever was in the garden or foraged nearby, so feel free to […]
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 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 […]
Chicken Soup with Fregola Avgolemono-Style Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Sardinian cooking class! Who doesn’t love a good chicken soup – the universal panacea? This version is more of a meal than a soup – and it tastes great! It came about as a way to use up the delicious chicken stock leftover […]
Gnocchi alla Sorrentina Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy & dine with me at Ristorante da Ciccio! This deliciously simple dish is so easy even a child can make it (see video below). It’s named for the town of Sorrento on Italy’s Amalfi coast and I first ate it at Ristorante Da […]
Pasta alla Puttanesca Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! “Puttana” is the Italian word for prostitute and I love the apocryphal story of how Neapolitan pasta alla puttanesca was named. Most respectable Italian women used to (and some indeed still do) shop for fresh ingredients every […]
Orecchiette, Broccoli & Anchovies Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! This classic dish of orecchiette, broccoli & anchovies hails from Puglia and is also popular in neighbouring Basilicata. It highlights one of the many reasons to love pasta – it’s literally on the table in less […]
Pasta e Fagioli Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Also called pasta fazool (or pasta fasul), pasta e fagioli is not a precise recipe, every Nonna across Italy makes a variation based on what she has on hand. This is my version, but as long as there’s […]
