The best arancini recipe around As I come from Napoli, one of the ‘street food’ items that I most love is arancini, rice balls. We call them arancini in Napoli, in other parts of Italy they change gender and become arancine, and have different versions. From the massive rice balls eaten in Sicily, full to the brim with mince meat ragu and peas (the best in my childhood memory used to be on the ferry between mainland and the island,…
Regional flavours Many moons ago, when I used to ski with school friends on the slopes of Abruzzo, I use to love stopping in cafes and enjoy a hot chocolate with one of the local chocolate cakes called bocconotti. Since this year we will unusually not spend Christmas in the region, and will not be skiing and eating those delicacies, I was feeling a little ‘homesick’ and decided to give them a try. In fact, even on Danilo Cortellini’s recently published…
One of the most interesting Instagram accounts is Symmetrybreakfast. A relatively simple idea (but then why did I not have it myself?) of photographing their identical breakfast everyday has propelled Michael and Mark into the social media wall of fame. They have a ton of followers and they seem really nice guys as well (unfortunately I have not had a chance to meet them in person yet). Apart from mouth-watering photos of breakfast food, they really love the history of food. We…
Try these unusual, protein packed Amaranth snack bars
Winter is nearly upon us, although in the last few days it has not seemed the case, the final day of October being blessed by a beautifully mild sunshine. On a quiet weekend, I decided I wanted to do some cooking without particular reason so I baked sourdough bread, I made marshmallows to sell for charity, I attempted a poached pear in pink peppercorn inspired by Veritas and I made a sweet, intense pickled onion marmalade which will be great…