Recipe: Super Salsa Verde!

We're putting this up due to a few requests for the recipe from former Cook Eat Discover guests who we prepared it for in Tuscany. Vivid green and delicious with meats, fish and vegetables, Salsa Verde is the condiment you've been missing in your life!

Recipe: SOUPER BOWL! Aquacotta

Aquacotta - A little known Tuscan gem of a soup that we absolutely love!

Recipe: Spaghetti alla Puttanesca! What is 'Whore’s Spaghetti’ and why should you learn to cook it?

The naughtily named spaghetti alla Puttanesca, literally whore’s spaghetti, is a perfect 'I’ve-got-nothing-in-the-fridge-and-I-can’t-be-bothered-to-go-to-the-shop’ solution. Garlic, tomato, olives, capers, chilli, spaghetti. Easy peasy.

Recipe: You Need to Learn to Make Pasta alla Norma!

Alrighty then, who the hell is Norma? I have no idea, something about an Opera, or summat…What we do know, though, is that it’s a delicious Sicilian classic, full of the flavours of the South if Italy.

Pasta of the Week - Strozzapreti: “Priest stranglers!’

Some pasta shapes’ names have no meaning, they’re just names. Some have very literal translations, as in the case: ‘Strozza' = strangle, ‘Preti’- priests, so ‘Priest Stranglers'!

Wild Food Special Pt. 2: Cooking with nettles

Zuppa di ortica e asparagi - Nettle and Asparagus Soup

Recipe: Flawless Foolproof Foccacia

Focaccia looks wonderful doesn’t it? Golden brown, thickly crusted, dimpled, rosemary sprigged and flecked with shards of salt.

5 Ways You're Cooking Pasta Wrong!

Recipe: Perfect Panna Cotta - the essence of simplicity!

Many people I’ve spoken to seem to have an irrational fear of making panna cotta. With a faraway look of dread in their eyes, they tell me of the experiences that have scarred them - lumpy bits of gelatine...overset consistencies...thick skins forming on the surface!