Bruschetta with Parsley & Caper Salad Makes 1 cup This is a tasty filling that can be used as a dip, pate or stuffed under the skin of chicken before roasting for a bit of a twist. This also makes a great accompaniment to fish, lamb or beef when baking or barbecuing. Why not make […]
Covaccine These are small thin style pizza breads that the Tuscan farmers use to make to test whether their wood fired ovens were hot enough to bake the bread. Unlike most other focaccias or pizze, no oil or salt is added to the bread until after baking. Covaccine is the Tuscan vernacular for Schiacciata a […]
Mixed Melon Salad with Prosciutto, Mint & Verjuice Dressing Serves 4 A little twist on the traditional slices of melon wrapped with prosciutto. This is a perfect salad for barbecues, summer nights and when juicy sweet melons are ins season, you can use a selection of different melons for flavour, colour and texture. ½ rockmelon, […]
Cold Roast Chicken with Fennel & Lemon Serves 4 Hot or cold this is a delicious recipe. The marinade works well with fish, chicken, pork and vegetables and can be made up ahead of time. 4 x 200g chicken breasts 2 tsp fennel seeds Zest of 2 lemon and flesh of ½ lemon 2 clove […]
Spinach & Parmesan Pie Serves 4-6 This is a recipe from my cookbook “My Taste of Sicily” and although it is here in the pages of Tuscan cooking you can find variations of this all over Italy and even in Spain for that matter. I love the béchamel through the pie as it helps give […]
Cannelloni Piacenza Style Serves 4 Crispelle are “crepes” in a word and are delicious in this lighter style cannelloni. The ricotta cooks almost like a soufflé and is light fluffy and delicious. If you want to cut out some of the fat content, you can halve the butter and leave out the mascarpone. Add other […]
Panzanella Salad Panzanella or panmolle is a Tuscan salad of bread and tomatoes popular in the summer, although the Panzanella was based on onions, not tomatoes, until the 20th century. Now the modern panzanella is generally made of stale bread soaked in water and squeezed dry, it is traditionally accompanied with tomatoes, sometimes also onions […]
Florentine Apple and Almond Tart Serves 6-8 There is nothing better than this simple delicious tart absolutely bursting with apples. The delicious combination of almonds and the use of lemon zest is iconic of the types of simple desserts you will find over Florence and Tuscany in cake shops and well known pasticceria. 2 large […]
