Wednesday has gone straight back to being pasta day and I threw this little medley together from my fridge contents, completely forgot that I’d ran out of sun-dried tomatoes, so ended up using capers which was delicious, the sweetness of the cherry tomatoes along with the tang of the capers and balsamic was fabulous. On […]

I was going through my photos from our Italy trip last year and came across this pic of the salad I made while we were staying in our Rome apartment, the photo just flooded my memory of shopping for the ingredients and marveling in the freshness of everything and the great variety of olives, I just […]

I forgot to post the recipe for this curry we had before we left for our trip and it’s been over a week since I’ve got my hands on the internet (nanna doesn’t have internet, nor lives near a wifi cafe, nor has a car to drive to wifi spot!) so I have been incommunicado […]

When I told you about the giant apples yesterday I forgot to mention the even bigger (well bigger than normal) strawberries they had in stock. They were pretty pricey but they looked stunning, a vibrant red colour with the green stems still intact, I couldn’t resist. So I bought 4… nearly keeled over when it […]

When I was in the fruit market on Friday I spied some enormous apples looking tasty and in need of a pastry home! But then I got to thinking while I was going round the store that those ripe juicy pears would compliment this just perfectly and so my spiced apple and pear pie was […]