In my head at least, I spent a lot of lockdown in Sicily. Friends and I had a regular lockdown Saturday night appointment – a shared dinner party menu, eaten together over Skype, and then an episode of Inspector Montalbano, while we whatsapped about who we thought did it. I fell in love with Sicily,…
Tag: cookbook
Just a quick one… Arancini
I’m a massive fan of Rachel Roddy’s writing and her recipes. (She also has my dream life, married to an Italian, writing about food for a living and splitting her time between Sicily and Rome). The week her article in the Guardian had a recipe for arancini. These gorgeous rice balls are a favourite of…
Polpo’s Braised Beef
Ok, the recipe is for braised ox cheek. Which is a much undervalued cut. It’s cheap and it cooks down beautifully in this recipe. Unfortunately my usual source had sold out, so I panicked and bought braising steak and it worked perfectly It’s a recipe that needs a bit of forward planning (and marinading) hooray!…
Maiale al latte
While my impatient streak doesn’t always relish the benefits of slow cooking, there is something about a recipe that requires of kind of pre-marinade/ soaking/ steeping that makes me really happy. While hungry me will sometimes resent the three and a half hour cooking time (despite knowing it will be completely worth it), I will…
Libertà in Cucina 