It might be time to shatter a few illusions. Perhaps you imagined, as I did until a few years ago, that an olive harvest went hand in hand with sunshine, artisanal wicker baskets and long languid lunches. Wrong on all counts. Our first harvest in Loro Piceno several years ago, we enjoyed consistently grey skies, [...]
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Homemade Gnocchi with Sundried Tomatoes
Posted in Primo piatto recipes, tagged dolce vita diaries, gnocchi, homemade, Jason Gibb, parmesan, recipes, sundried tomatoes, tapenade on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Homemade gnocchi is well worth the effort. These tiny, fluffy pillows are a country mile from their supermarket cousins. They do take some time to get ready though, but make an event of it – get other people involved, rolling out the gnocchi. The first few that come out of the conveyor belt may have [...]
Simple Sundried Tomato Pesto
Posted in Primo piatto recipes, tagged basil, dolce vita diaries, garlic, Jason Gibb, olive oil, parmesan, pasta, pesto, recipes, sundried tomatoes on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The pesto we tend to find outside of Italy is what the Italians call Pesto alla Genovese. In Italy there are actually a plethora of pesto recipes; Sicilian pesto uses tomatoes and almonds, Calabrian pesto has red peppers and Calabrian pesto adds ricotta to the mix. So in short you can have a good play [...]
Mozzarella with fig jam and lemon olive oil
Posted in Antipasti recipes, tagged dolce vita diaries, fig, fig jam, fig jelly, Jason Gibb, lemon, mozzarella, olive oil, Sigi, Silvano Buccolini on October 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of the many bonuses of my job is that people give me lots of yummy pots of Italian food, hoping that one day it may become a Nudo product. One of our most passionate producers is Silvano. I go and visit him often to test-run his latest concoction. On my most recent visit he [...]
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