Fregola Risottata with Clams & Chickpeas Like this recipe? Join me on an Italian food & wine tour to discover more regional specialties! Slightly larger than North African couscous, fregola is a reminder of the Arabic influence in Sardinia. It’s delicious in salads and soups and especially tasty as fregola risottata, stirred with the cooking […]
Tomato Sauce Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes A good tomato sauce is a basic in every Mediterranean cuisine. Use it to poach Lebanese stuffed zucchini, to dress a simple pasta or gnocchi (see video below), layer into eggplant Parmigiana or lasagne or add a pinch of […]
How To Make Garganelli Pasta Join my Small Group Food & Wine Tours to Emilia-Romagna, Home of Garganelli Pasta Emilia-Romagna is the home of rich egg pasta, with 1 egg used for every 100g of flour to create pasta sheets that are then cut into an endless variety of shapes. Garganelli are similar to penne […]
Spice-Rubbed Leatherjacket Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Middle Eastern cooking class inspired by Michael Rantissi! I love the thick flaky texture of the fish in this spice-rubbed leatherjacket recipe, but you could use any firm-fleshed fish, whole or fillets, including some of the oilier ones like mackerel or tuna as they’ll stand up […]
Octopus Cooked Ossobuco-style Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Northern Italian cooking class inspired by Alessandro Pavoni! With its firm texture, octopus lends itself perfectly to the long slow braise that makes traditional ossobuco so delicious and fall apart tender. Large ‘hands’ of octopus tentacles can be cooked this way as well: cut them […]
Swordfish à la Bouillabaisse Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class featuring the food of Provence! It’s impossible to create an authentic bouillabaisse on a small scale due to the variety and species of fish required but, in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child uses the same flavourings and technique […]
Pork Sausage Ragu with Cicciones Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! This pork sausage ragu is called alla Campidanese in Italian as it’s typical of the Campidano plains in southern Sardinia. Campidano is where a lot of the island’s vegetables are grown, and this sauce is as […]
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 Join my Small Group Food & Wine Tours of BolognaSee video below for highlights! 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 […]
Chilli sin Carne Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! Chilli sin carne is my vegetarian play on the famous Texan dish, chilli con carne. Since there’s no carne (Spanish for ‘meat’), it’s ‘sin carne’ (without meat). The idea would be an abomination to any self-respecting […]
