Ingredient: Water
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Rainbow Chard With Pine Nuts And Raisins
In my village a new, furtive fruit and vegetable seller recently appeared. A few times during the week, you need to wander through the cobbled streets and, if you’re lucky, you’ll find her and her battered old car full of fruits and vegetables from her garden. She sells them straight out of…
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Plum and Cherry Sorbet
“We REALLY need to have some sorbet,” my husband decided yesterday. I had a look in our fruitbowl: three rotten peaches, 2 fuzzy apricots, some cherries and some plums, but not enough of anything to make a single flavour sorbet. What to do? Have you ever eaten a sorbet that has more than one fruit…
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Tagliatelle and Chickpeas (Ciceri e Tria)
I’m sure that right now you’re saying, either aloud and making all your work-mates turn to look at you, or more sensibly, in your head so that nobody knows that you’re not working, “What the heck is Ciceri e Tria??!!!”. Well, that’s what I said when I first heard of these words when we…
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Macarons: Misadventures and Secret Tips
I’ve tried making macarons quite a few times only to end up with gummy, chewy messes. I decided that it was time to rectify this, so went off to a course on making them recently. Sadly my partner-in-crime, Giulia, who I’d spent many hours with trying to figure out where we both went…
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Polenta: Making Polenta Was Never So Easy!
A slight dusting of snow fell on us last week to about the depth of a thin piece of paper, which caused all traffic to ground to a halt. People abandoned their cars on the sides of the roads and to walked through the forest to work, or back home. As you can probably tell, it doesn’t snow…
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Stewed Onions (Cipolline Brasate)
Sorry, I haven’t been around for a week or so. I foolishly took it into my head to replaster/paint one of the rooms in our house. I ended up putting about 40kg of plaster on the wall, which took me a week of solid work. I learnt two things from this experience: 1. that I…
