Tag: Olive oil
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Burrata with caponata
There is a wonderful Italian restaurant in London called Il Portico, a favourite with the Pigeon Cottage gang, and we had this fab starter there last time we went – aubergine caponata & stracciatella di burrata. Caponata is a very famous Sicilian dish and I’ve been wanting to make it since we went there on…
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Fennel meatballs with tomato and basil pasta and salsa
This is a very quick and easy way to make meatballs. You just use skinned sausages and bake them in the oven whilst you make the tomato and basil pasta sauce and boost that tomato flavour with the salsa topping. I use the fennel sausages from Humphrey’s in Bury St Edmunds but you can use…
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Timballo di anelli siciliano
I watched the Sicily episode of Rick Stein’s ‘Long Weekends’ programme quite some time ago and a lovely lady made this beautiful baked pasta ‘timballo’ for him on a rooftop kitchen in Palermo. I’ve always wanted to make it but there wasn’t a recipe for it in the book. Sometime later, I got Rachel Roddy’s…
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