Tag: Recipe
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Mash Masterclass!
If someone tells me they don’t like mashed potatoes, I find it so difficult to process. I just tell myself they’ve obviously never eaten good mash. I LOVE mashed potato. I love mopping up casserole sauces and gravy with it. I love it piled up with sausages and onion gravy. I love it as a…
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Tomato and basil orzotto
I usually serve this ‘orzotto’ (like a risotto but made with orzo pasta grains not rice) with roast chicken and use the rich roasting juices to add to the chicken stock needed to make it. Add chopped cherry tomatoes and lots of shredded basil just before serving and you’ve got the perfect accompaniment to a…
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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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