Parmesan cheese, grana cheese and grana padano

Those Italians! How can you not love a cheese whose recipe remains unchanged since at least the thirteenth century?

Those Italians! How can you not love a cheese whose recipe remains unchanged since at least the thirteenth century?

Just waiting for those big mounds of asparagus to appear in shops, then you know it’s fresh, plentiful and cheap!

A 101 on asparagus – a good read!

Crackling. CRUNCHY crackling. Gorgeously golden, so fingerlickin’ salty, and so perfectly crackled you hear it shatter in your ears, and all lined with a layer of sweet creamy fat that melts on your tongue. OMG! Died and gone to heaven with this one.

Porcini have a smell of the woods about them …

Cabbage is always there at the supermarket, cheap as chips, but most of us walk past it filling our trolleys with more expensive, often out-of-season produce.

This humdinger of a hot mixture is pretty much a staple of North African cuisine. Its heat can vary from explosive to mild. You might find it in powdered form, which can be used as a sprinkle or rub, or mixed to a paste with water and/or oil. I love the way it gives mundane meat, vegetable and grain dishes a rev up.
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