Apple and almond pudding cake — another River Cottage recipe

Apple and almond pudding cake

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Rice for risotto: Carnaroli and Vialone nano

For many years the only type of rice I associated with risotto was Arborio. This happened for two main reasons. First of all, Arborio, was the only type of rice available on our supermarket shelves. Secondly, my poor rice education kept me linking…

The Risotto Rice Belt — Chapter 1: A basic risotto recipe

By Karl Vassallo as told to Adam Warner

This is the first of a series of articles about my experiences whilst travelling around the risotto rice belt. My first stop was Isola della Scala, home of the…

Spaghetti with caciocavallo cheese and lemon

We discovered and familiarized ourselves with typical Campania products after managing for 1 1/2 years Bocconci — an Italian franchise restaurant. Our menu consisted of a wide range and use of typical products from the Southern Italian region — the…

Recipe: Imbuljuta — chestnut and chocolate drink

Ingredients:

• 500g dried chestnuts

Lettuce pie

In Southern Italy, the filling I did for this pie, is usually prepared with a variety of the endive family, most commonly known as: escarole; scarola in Italian. In the Campania region you can also find pizza topped with this mixture. Since escarole is not easily found locally I replaced it with lettuce…

Torta Diplomatica

The recipe looks complicated however it is more about paying attention with the preparation of the crema pasticcera rather than with the whole cake. You can prepare the sponge cake ahead.

Sponge cake

Lemon cake

Last Sunday was Limoncello day! After peeling the rind of around 100 lemons we ended up with all these ready to use, rind-free lemons, thus the boys started squeezing and we looked for recipes with lemon juice. In the meantime, the boys prepared a lemon gelee which turned out to be a tangy lemon sorbet…