What better way to celebrate your first ever pot of ‘homemade’ honey than to use it in a delicious, decadent cake? Pinenut, pear and honey cake Ingredients Pears – 200g/7oz. or two small ones. Honey – 250g/9 oz. Butter 210g/7.4oz Brown sugar – 100g/3.5 oz. Pine nuts [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Pinenut, Pear and Honey Cake
Posted in Dolce recipes, tagged cake, dolce vita diaries, honey, Jason Gibb, pear, pinenuts, recipes on September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Artichokes: a love affair to last a millennium
Posted in Pasta recipes, tagged artichokes, cannelloni, dolce vita diaries, Italy, Jason Gibb, recipes, vegetarian on September 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Italy is known for many things – pasta, Chianti, Sofia Loren. But did you know it’s also the world’s biggest producer of artichokes? Those clever Italian have been growing and perfecting them for well over 1000 years. Time enough to have come up with some really top notch artichoke recipes, like this one. Ingredients for [...]
Pear, parmesan and rocket risotto
Posted in Primo piatto recipes, tagged adopt an olive tree, dolce vita diaries, Jason Gibb, parmesan, pear, recipes, risotti, rocket on September 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I get a kick out of coming up with new recipes and testing them out on Cathy. Those that get the discerning Cathy ‘nod’ are then, sometimes, released to the wider public. The wider public being friends, blogs and now books. It’s a buzz occasionally hearing nice things from people who tried my recipes. I’ve [...]
A tale of two cities (and one tiny village)
Posted in Dolce recipes, tagged adopt an olive tree, cathy rogers, dolce vita diaries, Italy, Jason Gibb, London, Nudo on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of you might have seen a couple of articles in British newspapers over the last couple of weeks called dramatic things like ‘Not such a dolce vita’ and ‘The end of our Italian dream’. (Journalists, aren’t they wonderful?) We thought we should write something here to set the record straight. The first important thing [...]
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