Recipes & other Stories
From the smokehouse round the corner….
From the smokehouse round the corner…. Over this Christmas I filled up on amazing salmon. It was as local as it could get, with the Hansen & Lydersen smokehouse just a few hundred meters from my home. The salmon itself comes from a family run fish farm in Norway, and is farmed in the most…
Read MoreSpiky, art-y, rice-y.. lovely artichoke risotto!
This is a quick and easy risotto recipe, and I like to make it with the spiky kind of lovely artichokes we have in Northern Italy, not with the globe ones more widespread over here and in the rest of my country of birth. But if you can only get globe artichokes, don’t worry, it…
Read MoreTangy ossobuco
This is a meal I absolutely love making when the temperature suddenly turns to cold. It is comforting like chestnuts on an open fire, its smell pervading the kitchen and awakening the appetite. The meat will be softly flaking off the bone and melting with the tangy sauce, with the gooey bone marrow acting as…
Read MoreJerusalem delight, no pain guaranteed!
My first memory of Jerusalem artichokes is yummy and painful all the same. Although quite obscure to the rest of Italians, in Piedmont this kind of tuberous root is quite popular. People eat them raw in bagna caôda, a warm garlic and anchovy sauce. That was how I first tasted them and their crunchy texture…
Read MoreThe 7 Salad
I made this salad with the vegetables I found in my fridge on my return from Argentina and it turned out to be a success. It was so good to finally tuck into a vegetable dish prepared with love, not just any side salad I was having in desperation for the lack of vegetables there!…
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