A recipe: tagliatelle with courgette & mint pesto
World Pasta Day continues with two dishes in a box: a mouthwatering courgette & mint pesto recipe with Grana Padano and ravioli with mushrooms and radicchio
World Pasta Day continues with two dishes in a box: a mouthwatering courgette & mint pesto recipe with Grana Padano and ravioli with mushrooms and radicchio
Trying new dishes Before Christmas I attended a fun masterclass with Francesco Mazzei to learn the secrets of fresh pasta making and taste some iconic dishes from the Padana plain. One of these dishes particularly caught my eye (and my palate!) because it was completely new to me; I found it so delicious, I decided I would try replicating it as soon as possible. It’s taken me a month or more but finally, I managed to find sometime to make…
Yes, yes I should know how to make pasta – but you can always learn more and when the person showing you the ropes is renowned chef Francesco Mazzei, then you know you’re in for a treat. I had already attended a really cool masterclass with him last year at his Islington outpost Radici – the lovely folks at Grana Padano were kind enough to ask me to join this year’s session too, which I very gladly did. This year’s…
Italian Cuisine Week 2018 Anything with Grana Padano, I love. If there’s also a pasta masterclass in the mix and a well known Italian chef added to it, then I am sold. That’s why I wasn’t going to miss one of the events which opened the 2018 Italian Cuisine Week in London. A yearly event organised via Italian embassies across the world, it aims to promote our food culture and excellencies. The session I was truly lucky to attend was…
Memories One of the most vivid dishes I remember from when I was really young was something my grand ma used to make, amongst other (many) delicious things. I remember staying over in her beautiful home, full of really old stuff (she’d live there since before WWII), lots of places to hide and seek, old post cards in boxes, old books, and a window overlooking the street below, called rampe. I used to sit at that window in the dark…