A Wood – fired Oven? Why? This is the question I am often asked. And here is my answer: In this day and age of forever changing modern technology, and the power of life and death (i.e. water, heat, fuel etc) being in the hands of a few, I have begun to feel that I […]
Recipe: Panzanella – Great Italian antipasti (Very Easy) My love of all things Italian (well, nearly all) was nurtured after me and my horse lived with an Italian family for two summers. But I have been lucky enough to have travelled by car through Europe and to Italy quite a few times. Lake Garda and […]
All Things Italian, (Especially an Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe) My introduction to Italian food (and an Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe) came about in, of all places, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. I had just become the proud owner of my first show-jumping horse, and both she and I spent the next two summer holidays living, working and […]
Recipe: All things Italian, especially Italian food (continued) Click here to read the introduction Still not that adventurous with food (and certainly not with Italian food) I wasn’t sure what to expect from Mrs Lanni’s cooking. On my first morning, after mucking out loads of stables, grooming both my horse and the Lanni’s huge international show-jumpers […]
Tomato Soup Recipe – (or how I discovered it) Years ago, I was newly married, with a tiny baby, and what happens. An electricity strike! No oven for hours at a time. How to cook? Then my father saved the day and bought me a 2-ring gas burner (a camping stove) and my panic was […]
First Strawberries of Summer: We are almost up and running now with our site – just a few more tweaks should sort things out. Fingers crossed. In between pouring over the computer screen for the last few weeks, Erik and myself have been furiously working and watering in the kitchen garden. Now is the time […]
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