In this post I'd just like to share a recipe. One of those simple dishes with just a few ingredients which seems to bring out the best in all of them, it's an easy pasta dish using leafy kale greens with anchovy and garlic. It works well with leafy greens in general, the best I've … Continue reading A Quiet Life #5: the joy of simple cooking
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Making an Easter tradition: ciambella mandorlata
About 20 years ago I wanted to learn how to make bread so I bought a book, Eric Treuille and Ursula Ferrigno's Bread. One of its recipes is for an Italian Easter bread, ciambella mandorlata, originating in Bologna. It's a brioche-type bread – the dough enriched with lemon zest, eggs and unsalted butter – topped … Continue reading Making an Easter tradition: ciambella mandorlata
An Englishman’s Italian-American Christmas
We all have our Christmas traditions and my family is no different. I count myself very lucky that I'm married to someone whose traditions are different from my own so over the years we've developed our own version of two ways of doing Christmas. As an American she has a heritage spanning Europe, the one … Continue reading An Englishman’s Italian-American Christmas
