Serves 4 / Difficulty – Medium / 10 minutes prep & around 30 minutes cooking time. This is the best mushroom risotto I have tasted, which is lucky as it’s made by my wife and she would know if I was lying every time she asks me ‘how was it?’. Ingredients 200g exotic mushroom mix…
Serves around 8 / Difficulty – Medium / Ready in 3-4 hours A versatile sauce, best served as a bolognese or lasagne. You need to cook this a lot to remove the fresh meat taste and refine the flavour. Ingredients 50g celery 50g onions 50g carrots 1 tablespoon olive oil 250g minced pork 500g beef minced 250g white wine…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Easy / Ready in 10 minutes. This is a quick and easy delicious classic pasta which I consider another comfort food. In Italy it’s not eaten as often as you would think and probably more loved here in England. You’ll find my recipe for the ragu sauce here. Ingredients 300g…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 15 mins and 20 minutes cooking time. This is one of my favourite pastas and one of my main reasons for stocking nduja which you can buy at Ocado now. For the uninitiated Nduja has a taste similar to chorizo but it is a soft Calabrian sausage…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Easy / Prep 10 mins and 20 minutes cooking time. This is a low calorie easy dish that creates a nice sauce for the salmon – as lovely as salmon is cooked plainly it can get a bit boring sometimes. This sauce gives it a nice pick-me-up. Ingredients 2 Salmon…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Easy / 5 minutes prep and 10 minutes cooking time. My mother in law introduced me to peverada pasta, I added the broccoli, truffle oil and cheese to pimp it up a bit. Ingredients 1 head of broccoli with stems remove 180g of fusilli pasta 6 tablespoons of peverada Truffle…
Serves around 12 / Difficulty – medium / 20 minutes prep – 1 hour cooking time. Peverada sauce is a strong flavoured meaty sauce originating from Venice that is served with game and goes amazingly well with poultry. This particular recipe was passed to me by my mother in law, who learned it from her…
Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / 20 minutes prep and 4 hours cooking time. This is a dish that has its origins in the Venice region. We have it every year when in Italy on Christmas day. When I cook this meal my wife often says to me that the smell makes her think…