Lucca, June 2022 . London, August 2022. This has been the best, most rewarding recipe of this summer. Just love it I am a bread collector. All those stale loaf-ends (apparently called “the heels”) that cannot be eaten but cannot be turned into breadcrumbs either, I put aside - “I will make a bread pudding…

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21.10.2024

Pan di mort (All Souls spiced chocolate biscuits from Lombardy) – Italian home cooking

Pan di mort (All Souls spiced chocolate biscuits from Lombardy)

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26.10.2024

Torta di patate e porri, della Lunigiana ma con influenze sudiste (potato and leek pie, from Lunigiana but also with southern Italian influences) – Italian home cooking

Lunigiana is the austere mountainous area where three regions meet: Toscana, Liguria and Emilia Romagna. From the administrative point of view, it is now part of Tuscany, but historically and culturally it has always been a terra di confine, a border land, where the identities of those three regions, and of its people and food…

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19.12.2024

Hazelnut ragù (ragù di nocciole) – Italian home cooking

An unusual recipe where toasted hazelnuts replace minced meat. I discovered this idea online, but there is not much information about it - I suspect this is a relatively modern recipe.The chopped hazelnuts lose their crunchiness, and, with the support of tomatoes, dried ceps, spices and red wine, become a deeply flavoured sauce, as satisfying…

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Polpette di pane – bread polpette or breadballs, if you insist – Italian home cooking

Pan di mort (All Souls spiced chocolate biscuits from Lombardy) – Italian home cooking

Torta di patate e porri, della Lunigiana ma con influenze sudiste (potato and leek pie, from Lunigiana but also with southern Italian influences) – Italian home cooking

Hazelnut ragù (ragù di nocciole) – Italian home cooking

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