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Ingredients for 4 people Plain flour – 300g Eggs – 4 Lemon olive oil – 1.5 tablespoons Ricotta – 300g Spinach – 120g cooked and finely chopped Marjoram – a couple of fresh sprigs Salt and pepper Butter – 40g Sage – a big sprig Find a nice big clean workspace. Pour the flour into [...]

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Every year, our harvesting skills get more finely honed. The first year, we were frankly laughed at by Corrado (who runs the olive press) about our woeful productivity. He couldn’t understand how we could have harvested for so many hours yet have so few olives. But then he didn’t see us in the grove, trying [...]

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The porcini mushroom hunting season is now drawing to a close, but last week my mate Marco gave me an overflowing punnet of these fine beasts that he and his mum had foraged themselves. They were fantastic, meaty, flavoursome and they keep their fleshy bulk even when you cook them. I dished them up on a rosti, [...]

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The Italians aren’t really ones for the tapas approach. I’ve often felt rather miserly when, in a market, I might be purchasing a single melon or a solitary bag of spinach. All around me are women (as they invariably are, Italian men don’t really shop, though they do ‘advise’) buying 10kg of oranges, or 5 pineapples, or their own body weight in tomatoes. [...]

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It’s funny how things come around. Until relatively recently, the idea of the Italian daily shopping trip - to buy the fresh produce for that day’s lunch and supper – was anathema to many Brits. We preferred the idea of a lengthy shopping list and a still lengthier trip to a supermarket to stock up on [...]

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Sometimes I’m happy cracking open a jar of Hellman’s Mayonnaise, other times that just doesn’t cut the mustard so to speak. If I’m making some roasted potatoes to pick on as a snack, or some polpette or sausages for the kids I’m inclined to make some mayonnaise too. My favourite is the garlicy French version aioli, [...]

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Penne all’arrabbiata is the famous Italian ‘angry pasta’ dish, so called because of the fire in its belly.  The Nudo chilli oil used in this recipe allows you achieve the precise level of crossness in the sauce. It’s also got to be one of the easiest recipes in the world and uses ingredients that are [...]

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