Serve the risotto topped with butternut squash, sage leaves, parmesan shavings and a drizzle of olive oil (or better still with any sage butter you may have in the pan!)
Category: Italian
Panettone Bread and Butter Pudding
not many people are keen on panettone – is it bread or cake? It’s too dry to be cake but not doughy enough to be bread. What do you have it with? How do you slice it? How do you serve it? Are those raisins and bits of candied peel?
Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
Pimped-up fettuccine alfredo! Easy. Ingredients: Chicken breast (aim for 1 per person) Spanish onion Garlic Cream Thyme Parmesan cheese Lemon juice Parsley Seasoning https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=6ZEeFW1PG8s Method: 1st: Chop the chicken breast into slices, or equal size pieces and fry in oil/butter. 2nd: Dice a small Spanish onion and 2 cloves of garlic. Once the chicken is cooked,…
Mushroom Arancini
Start by making a mushroom risotto but make sure to ALWAYS make a little bit extra just so that you can make these easy to create, amazing arancini!
Salted Caramel Panna Cotta
Salted Caramel Panna Cotta Typing those four words has made my mouth water! Classic panna cotta is normally served with a strawberry coulis to off-set the silky-white texture of the creamy panna cotta. At the very least, slices of strawberry or other fruit will be used to finish the dish – even if just as…
Fresh Pasta – Tortellini
A couple of years ago, or was it last year? I was given a pasta machine for my birthday. And whether this was a gift given out of love or the thought that I’d be inviting people around to eat fresh pasta on a regular basis I don’t know BUT what I do know is…
Panna Cotta
There’s always room for dessert! You sit down at your local trattoria to stay out of the lunchtime sun knowing exactly what you’re going to have for dessert – panna cotta. More grown up than ice-cream but just as cooling and light. You plan your antipasti and primo piatto with this in mind, making sure…
Vegetarian
The recent Horsemeat scandal has left farmers incensed as meat sales have plummeted, supermarkets have lost billions in profits and governments struggle in vain to draw a line under the scandal over horsemeat being sold as beef. So with consumers ditching beef for veggie ready meals it makes me question why people feel that creating vegetarian dishes…
Blue Monday
“You got paid early in December ready for Christmas, so you are currently skint. Your New Year diet regime has now slipped and you are hoovering up food like there’s no tomorrow.” New Year’s resolutions start flying out the window and all those gym clothes you bought are a constant reminder of how little exercise…
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