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14/10/2026

Sausage & rigatoni pasta bake finished with a Red Leicester & wholegrain mustard béchamel. The sausages were Tesco Finest pork, apple and fennel. Some toasted and lightly crushed fennel seed in the sauce and finished with some nasturtium and some chervil from my auk. Oh, and some lovely tomatoes from the garden! Chervil is my favourite herb and nasturtium gave a nice peppery freshness. It was a bit of a “hmmm… what should I make for dinner” concoction, but it turned out really well.

30/09/2026

Cacio E Pepe with pici dough pasta. Something very satisfying about making your own pasta. This is something that takes me back to my time in Genoa, learning to make pasta by hand. Pici pasta is actually made with strong bread flour, water, a bit of salt and extra virgin olive oil. No pasta machine, every single strand of pasta is hand rolled one at a time.
Cacio De Pele (cheese and pepper) is a very simple sauce. So tasty. Butter, a little lemon, pepper and pasta water. Then the pasta is added and load of Pecorino Romano. ❤️

27/09/2026

A lovely birthday meal for melaniemckinley_8553 at thedueamici in Chislehurst. A beautiful restaurant with a really traditional feel. It was like stepping back into Italy. Great food and superb service. Thank you for a lovely evening.

20/09/2026

Breakfast of champions. conservasortiz anchovies. steweeggs. Sourdough. French salted butter. Thes anchovies are not the ones you buy on the shelf in the supermarket, they’d plump, juicy and loaded with umami flavour. Honestly incredible. Yesterday I had them simply with buttered sourdough but having them with a perfectly poached St Ewe rich yolk egg, takes them to another level.

The anchovy brings salt, umami and richness, while the yolk adds sweetness and creaminess. When the yolk breaks and mixes with the olive oil from the anchovies, it effectively creates its own sauce. That's why the combination works so well.

There’s a little Spanish shop in Borough Market called brindisaspanishfoods. It has so much, it’s very easy to spend a fortune, but their hams, cheeses and of course, the wide range of Ortiz products is beyond excellent. A good day out for me would be a trip to Borough Market to go to breadaheadbakery, brindisaspanishfoods and then try and get home without tucking into anything before I get home!

19/09/2026

As autumn creeps in… this is possibly one of my favourite things to make. A hug from the inside. Lamb Navarin. In case you’re wondering, it’s a lamb stew. Rich and so tasty, and the lamb (lamb shoulder) just melts in your mouth

13/08/2026

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10/08/2026

Pad Kra Prow. Well, my attempt anyway. Pork, green beans and an abundance of basil that my auk is providing! So it should really be Thai Basil, but this worked and was super tasty. It’s so good knowing that I can take what I need from the Basil and they will just keep growing back. I’ve never been able to grow it, same with the Coriander. Now it grows and keeps growing! I love it. Thank you Auk.

29/06/2026

At last I was home long enough to do a BBQ! Peri Peri chicken- I may have added a chilli or two, too many; crispy potatoes with chorizo, red onion and garlic; Tomato, red onion and basil salad with lime and smoked maldon; and Mango, avocado salad with lime, sherry vinegar, and citizensofsoil Citizens of Soil Extra Virgin Olive Oil. I could drink this stuff out of the bottle it’s that good. Both salad were dressed with it, the chicken marinade had it in and the chorizo was rendered in a little just to give enough smoky chorizo oil to mop up with the flat bread.

01/05/2026

Lamb loin from dukeshill, superb quality and great flavour.

13/04/2026

Ragù di manzo, maiale e salsiccia toscana. Otherwise know as Beef, pork and Tuscan sausage ragù. Lots of red w**e and cook for 4 hours to develop the flavour. I was given this recipe when working in . Beautiful place with beautiful people ‘e cibo bellissimo’.

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