Tag: Rice
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A recipe – Arancini with sweet red pepper & smoked scamorza
A tradition 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…
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Chef’s Table with Danilo Cortellini
Since watching the latest MasterChef the Professional last November and pining for Danilo Cortellini I had been hoping to try his food at some point. In fact, as he is the Head Chef at the Italian Embassy in London, it is privilege of our ambassador to eat his food every day, but kind of difficult for everyone…
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Grana Padano ‘Top Chef’ Blogger Competition
While I was on #TheLongWayHome I received an email inviting me to take part in a cooking challenge…and two things caught my eye. The fact that it was promoting a classic, well known Italian product (Grana Padano cheese) and that it was going to be judged by Francesco Mazzei, formerly of L’Anima, who is a…
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Brazilian night with Dhruv Baker and Rosana McPhee by Tilda Samba Rice
In the last few weeks Brazil is everywhere, of course thanks to the World Cup. Italy and England didn’t exactly set the world alight and went out equally embarrassingly on the first round; thankfully some good Brazilian vibes were to be found last week at London Foodie’s beautiful London home. Sponsored by Tilda Rice…