How salty should the water be to cook pasta?

The Italians say it needs to be as salty as the Mediterranean. How do you know how salty that is if you’ve never swum in it?

The Italians say it needs to be as salty as the Mediterranean. How do you know how salty that is if you’ve never swum in it?

Rub in flavour!

Traditional filo is tissue-thin and can be temperamental to work with. Speed is required to get it buttered or oiled, rolled and shaped before it becomes brittle and shatters into flakes.

If I could resist harvesting my fennel bulbs, they would have babies, slim fennel-ettes would start forming that I could pluck out leaving the plant to continue growing and forming more of the same. But I can’t, of course.

Like your favourite handbag, parsley can go anywhere. Welcomed for its overt mown grass aroma and breath-freshening taste, parsley is at home in practically any savoury dish.

Polenta may have humble origins, being served as a type of gruel back in the day, but just look at it now!

I don’t know why people don’t cook omelettes more often. They’re so quick, so tasty and so utterly satisfying, that it’s almost criminal to think of dashing off to buy fast food when there’s an egg or two in the pantry.
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