1 egg per 100 grams of pasta flour.
So that’s the ingredients done! (more…)
Recipes
I Love My Balls
My mum’s homemade Italian meatballs are, quite simply, my favourite food in the world…ever!
(well, along with her homemade pizza and her homemade lasagne)
That’s quite a big statement considering how much I adore Indian food, Thai food, Malaysian food, Indonesian food, British food, Dutch food, French food (…I could go on) but none of those foods wrap their loving arms around you and clutch you to their bosom quite like my mum’s Italian meatballs. (more…)
The sauce that keeps on giving
Italian tomato sauce is the most versatile basis of so many dishes I figured I would throw it in here early doors because I will most likely refer back to it again and again in later recipes. This is probably the first thing I ever learnt to cook at my mum’s side and my mum is part Italian, so we’re already onto a winner.
Recipes are promiscuous
I love a good recipe, but I don’t usually follow them. That’s not what they’re there for.
Recipes evolve, and I do mean that in the Darwinian sense. Two recipes meet, you fall in love with them and take the best bits from each and produce a child. (more…)
Proscuitto
This may take 6 months or more beginning to end, but the amount of work you have to do equates to about half an hour. This is easy…so easy…try it – I beg you…that’s how chuffing good it is! (more…)
a salted pig 