Tag Archives: Sicily

Pull Me Up Baby – a dish to pull you right out of ‘Chrimbo limbo’ into New Year

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

This particular tiramisù recipe is straight from the mouth of a Sicilian mamma and these diminutive but formidable ladies know how to cook. Split the word into three and you have the essence of the dish – tirare=to pull; mi=me … Continue reading →

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Breaking news: farmers’ markets

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

A Francis Bacon painting, bleeding, ambiguous. Flesh, raw, real. Heads, livers, tongues hung in rows. Silver flapping fish, translucent tiny eels, stacks of plump oranges, fat capers, purple batons of aubergines, pungent basil bunches. This is the show, the culinary … Continue reading →

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Cooking up a dessert storm

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

Thankfully it was Wills who requested the chocolate refrigerator cake, if it had been Kate (‘the commoner’) the tabloids would have written about nothing else all week. Wills can get away with it as ‘a cake for the boys’, an … Continue reading →

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Food furore

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

This little bunny hops and jumps and stumbles on the latest food trends. I’d rather wait for Clint Eastwood to ride into the distance after nailing a few bad cowboys than for all the dust to settle this week from … Continue reading →

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