In partnership with Vico Food Box, Italian food at low prices with free shipping throughout Europe Let’s face it. Italians cannot survive abroad without ‘their’ Italian food. It’s some sort of lifeline, we cannot function for long periods of time without ‘our’ pasta, pizza and lots of local delicatessen that we grew up with. Memories […]
Tag: traditional
Sour cherry and coffee hot cross buns
In collaboration with Brixton Windmill and using their organic wholemeal flour Hot cross buns are…something that I had never eaten before moving to the UK. Surely not for Easter. Traditionally, Easter in Italy is marked by the arrival of millions of ‘doves’. No, literally, they are everywhere, but made of bread of course: the traditional […]
Christmas apple strudel
In collaboration with Brixton Windmill and using their organic wholemeal flour Strudel is a traditional layered pastry that originated in Austria (or around that area) some time ago during the 18th century (but someone says even earlier than that). The filling is usually sweet and made up of apples, raisins, cinnamon and sugar as the […]
Canestrelli biscuits
Give a go at these buttery canestrelli biscuits (or canestrini), a classic shortbread biscuit from Northern Italy.