Category: Extras

  • How To Cure Your Own Olives

    How To Cure Your Own Olives

        How to hit an olive tree I’ve talked before about how hoards of wild Southern Europeans roam around the countryside banging trees with sticks and raking their leaves with big wooden combs at this time of the year.  This year we decided to join them, as the olives that grew on our few…

  • Tomato Passata: Saving The Taste Of Summer

    Tomato Passata: Saving The Taste Of Summer

        So many tomatoes!  What to do with them all? My lovely neighbour grew a whole lot of tomato plants from seed this year.  He had so many, that he gave me piles of seedlings to plant in my vegetable garden.  Usually, I care for the tomatoes night and day for months, then we…

  • Fresh Pasta: How To Make It Easily At Home!

    Fresh Pasta: How To Make It Easily At Home!

        It’s finally time to make fresh pasta This post is way overdue!  I’ve been writing for nearly two years now, and haven’t yet put up a post on how to make fresh pasta……and I call this an Italian cooking blog??!!  Shame on me! I’m just lucky I haven’t had my Italian passport revoked…