Beetroot Salad with Labna
Pretty pretty pretty. Oh, and delicious!
Lunch
Labna balls
It’s easy making your own labna balls – just strain yoghurt until thick, then flavour it with dukkah, spices, herbs or edible flower petals.
Bruschetta with Asparagus & Prosciutto
Get those asparagus spears on the grill to add another taste sensation.
Asparagus & Mint Wraps
That smell of smoke, sizzling prosciutto, lemon and mint will get them running to your place. Make plenty!
Burrata with Caponata
Burrata, a little dome of happiness, filled to bursting with a rich creamy centre, barely holding its shape, and just wanting to burst open on your plate. Let it!
Pears Prosciutto & Parmigiano
Simple and seductive – juicy, sweet, salty, crunchy – a brilliant combination.
Indian Sweet Potato Rosti
Rosti with a difference.
Carbie Stuff | Lunch | Salads | Spring | Summer
Purple Power Quinoa Salad
Eat your purples – it’s easy with this salad.
Marcella’s Fresh Tomato Sauce
This makes the sweetest tomato sauce imaginable, but you must start with great tomatoes.
Fried Paneer with Golden Raisins
Golden crunch meets sweet spice – Yum!
French Omelette with Bacon, Crème Fraîche & Chives
An omelette is a 2-minute meal, ready when you are. This one’s amazing – salty, tangy, savoury – and really hits the spot.
Hokkien Noodle Soup with Wong Bok & Tofu
Chilli, coriander, ginger and soy sauce give oodles of flavour to this easy and sustaining noodle soup.
Dianne’s 5 Grain Bread
My kind of bread – mix it, bake it, eat it. No kneading, rising or faffing around with these babies.
Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Lunch | Salads | Winter
Broccoli Salad with Pumpkin & Peppers
Get your chops around this – colourful, crunchy, bursting with flavour, and good for you!
Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Lunch | Pies & Tarts | Winter
Erbazzone
Erbazzone is sweet, earthy, savoury and salty, with contrasting textures of moist filling held between flakes of buttery, salty pastry. Heaven.
Hot-smoked Salmon with Sorrel, Poached Eggs & Crispy Pancetta
Whoa! What a Mamma of a brunch: salt, crunch, carbs, smoke, mouth-feel and tang: Hot-smoked salmon, sorrel, poached eggs & pancetta socks it to them!
Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Hero Vege | Ilaria’s Recipes | Lunch
Autumn Mushrooms (‘shrooms!)
It’s the magical mushroom season and I’m hooked!
I’m addicted to mushrooms, or ‘the ‘shrooms’ as we call them!
Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Lunch | Soups & Suppers | Winter
Pappa al Pomodoro – Tomato & Bread Soup
Pappa al pomodoro is usually made in summer when tomatoes are ripe and plentiful, but this version, a ‘best-ever’, using both canned and roasted vine tomatoes, is scented and richly flavoured, chunky and textural, and is good at any time of year. Especially now when there is a nip in the air.
Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Lunch | Salads | Summer
Eggplant & Date Salad
I love this freshly tossed, when everything’s all perky and standing to attention, the onion crunchy, the lemon biting fresh and the chilli gnawing the back of you throat …
Ilaria’s Recipes | Lunch | Salads | Spring | Summer
Summer Zucchini Salad
This time of year to me means eating light and eating outdoors. I have my dad Remo to thank for the inspiration for this recipe. He’s constantly pottering away in the garden and has got the greenest thumbs I’ve ever seen, though not literally, of course, haha … that could be a bit spooky. The zucchinis I’ve used here are some of his little babies.
Hangover Cure – Black Beans, Avo, Eggs ‘n Chilli
I can never work out whether celebrating the last day of the year is more fun than celebrating the first day of a new year – it generally depends on what ungodly hour my head hits the pillow after seeing in the new year. But once I’m up and pottering, tea and toast won’t cut it – I’m after the full monty combo of carbs, fat, salt and chilli. It’s the best way to clear the cobwebs I reckon.
Brunchy Things | Hero Vege | Lunch | Spring
Chorizo & Asparagus Spanish-style
Serve olives to nibble while preparing, good bread to serve alongside and a glass or two of the doctor’s medicine (Rioja) to wash it down. It’s like bringing Spain to your place.
Ilaria’s Recipes | Lunch | Salads | Spring
Spring Burghul Salad
Ooooh my first recipe for the blog! Exciting stuff. It’s not as though Spring Burghul Salad and I go way back or share a life’s history of satisfying nourishment or anything. It’s just that one day I was in need of something sustaining so had a look in the pantry, became a little overwhelmed with the choices, but decided to give it a go anyway, and this was the result!
Carbie Stuff | Lunch | Spring | Summer
Scampi Tail Linguine
This is another dish on the S.P.Q.R menu that has been popular since the early days. It is easy to make and is always a pleasure. Perfect with a crisp sauvignon blanc.
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