An overview of Italian soft cheeses in time for the summer months. Buffalo mozzarella at its freshest, artisan-produced hand-cut buffalo mozzarella, made only with buffalo milk, salt and rennet. MOZZARELLA …
Saffron and Parmigiano Reggiano risotto
Serves 4 INGREDIENTS -320g carnaroli or vialone nano rice -1L vegetable stock -130g butter -150g Parmigiano Reggiano, grated -1 glass of dry white wine -1 shallot -0.20g saffron pistils -salt, …
Parmigiano Reggiano
Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, known as the King of Cheeses, is one of the world’s oldest and richest cheeses – still produced today as it was nine centuries ago. It’s the …
Alex Mackay’s Brussels Sprouts With Chestnuts and Pancetta
Ingredients 400g Brussels sprouts 1 tbsp vegetable oil, or turkey fat if you’re doing this at Christmas 70g-100g pancetta, you can use smoked or unsmoked 100g cooked chestnuts, cut in …
Courgettes and edible flowers
Courgettes (or zucchini) like all squash, has its ancestry in the Americas. However, the varieties of squash typically called “zucchini” were developed in Italy, many generations after their introduction from the …
Fig mozzarella and basil salad
Serves 6 What you need 1 lemon, juice 5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp mint leaves 3 tbsp basil leaves 70g wild rocket 9 figs halved 3 x …
Figs
How can we forget that Adam and Eve were said to have clothed themselves with fig leaves, though it was eating from an apple tree that got them thrown out of the Garden of …
Give peas a chance
What we’ve missed the most: A look at national and local lockdown responses in this, the strangest of times… It’s not going to come as an immense surprise that visiting …
New spice brand from Mr Wolf
Spices are fantastic for adding fun and flavour to foods without adding fat or sugar, so we give them the thumbs up! George Bond and Raymond Watkins, directors of Mr …
Focus on over 50s
By 2050, one in four people in the UK will be aged 65 years and over – an increase from approximately one in five in 2018 – and muscle loss …