Tue 2 Jul 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
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.
Tue 2 Jul 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
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'!
Tue 22 Jan 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
Wild Food Special Pt. 2: Cooking with nettles
Zuppa di ortica e asparagi - Nettle and Asparagus Soup
Tue 22 Jan 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
Recipe: Flawless Foolproof Foccacia
Focaccia looks wonderful doesn’t it? Golden brown, thickly crusted, dimpled, rosemary sprigged and flecked with shards of salt.
Tue 22 Jan 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
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!
Tue 22 Jan 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
Bangin' Bruschetta: Tips and Toppings Ideas
I think bruschetta gets a bad rep in Britain, mainly because they usually consist of some bland, anaemic tomatoes on a piece of soggy cotton-wool bread.
Tue 22 Jan 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
Supermarket Wine of the Week! Burdizzo Vermentino, 2016, Asda, 12%, £6.18
Vermentino isn’t the best known grape - but it’s a popular white wine grape in Tuscany and super underrated in our opinion.
Tue 22 Jan 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
Supermarket Wine of the Week! Chianti Contralto, Sainsbury’s, 12.5%, £5.75
Ok so I know we already did a Chianti a couple of weeks back when we looked at a Tesco’s Finest Classico Riserva….but in this Contralto we’re looking at a very different wine despite the similarity in name.
Tue 22 Jan 2019 · Oliver Haenlein
Wild Food Special Recipe Pt 1: Elderflower Cordial
Want to be able to claim that you ‘forage’, but don’t know where to start? Elderflower cordial is wild food foraging made easy