tomato sauce

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.

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