Category: Cooking like a local

• Cooking with Mamma

  

  Want to learn how to cook real authentic Puglian food? Who best to teach you than an Italian Mamma who has learnt the family secret recipes which have been handed down from Mamma to daughter for generations. Check out our YouTube video of Cooking with Mamma Puglian food is considered ‘cucina povera‘, which literally translates…

  Valerie Knott

  23/05/2019

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• Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter from Puglia!

  

  The scarcella, also known in some areas as scarcedda, is a typical Puglian Easter cake. Another dialect term (from the Brindisi region) is pupu cullovu which means baby with egg, which I thought was quite cute and reminded me of the time when baby Jesus was conceived by the young virgin Mary. Traditionally, it is…

  Valerie Knott

  24/03/2016

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• Cooking Like a Local: Pugliese Style! – ‘A La Brace’

  

  Written by guest blogger Maria Demkowicz Having cooked a traditional roast chicken, Yorkshires and trifle Sunday lunch for Italian friends I was invited for a return match the following week. With some trepidation (my Italian isn’t great and my Italian speaking partner was away) I made a lemon meringue pie and turned up at their…

  Valerie Knott

  29/02/2016

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• Judging an Advanced Culinary Art Course: Oh, what fun!

  

  It was a great honour to be invited to judge an advanced culinary art competition at the 4 Star Ostuni Palace Hotel, in Ostuni the other night. And it was a lot of fun to boot! The competition was the penultimate event in an advanced culinary art course, organised by Emilio Geri, of Todo Modo…

  Valerie Knott

  25/02/2016

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• Cooking Like a Local: Pugliese Style! – All Things Squash

  

  Keeping with tradition and using only fresh local ingredients, this week’s ‘cooking like a local’ makes some great tasty dishes using the humble squash, which in my opinion is under used and under rated.There’s a huge variety to choose from, so feel free to experiment! Here are some of the many health benefits of eating…

  Valerie Knott

  28/11/2015

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• Cooking like a local: Pugliese Style! – Fave

  To get the full effect of my crazy thought process whilst writing this week’s cookery blog, the next line needs to be sung in the style of a very famous Christmas carol ‘Tis the season ‘fare fave’, tra la, la la, la, la, la, la, la!’ OK, enough messing around! This week we’re cooking ‘Fave’…

  Valerie Knott

  22/05/2015

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• Cooking like a local: Pugliese Style! – Going Solo!

  Who would have thought it? Asparagus and eggs! It sounds like a crazy combination but it works! Giuseppe, a good friend of mine, cultivates asparagus on a large scale and gave me a tray of his freshly harvested produce. “Grazie mille” I said but then thought ‘What am I going to do with all of…

  Valerie Knott

  06/05/2015

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• Cooking like a local: Pugliese Style! – All things Cardoncelli

  

  This week’s seasonal dishes are based on cardoncelli mushrooms, which are a flat based mushrooms from the Puglia region. Last time I cooked with cardoncelli mushrooms, there wasn’t much left of them after I’d scrubbed all the dirt out from the tiny grooves underneath the cap of the mushroom! So this time I was a…

  Valerie Knott

  25/04/2015

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• Cooking like a local: Pugliese Style – Polipo al Sugo

  Those who know me well, know I’m allergic to everything that once swam in the sea. So, when Angela suggested ‘Polipo al sugo’, Octopus in a tomato sauce, for our next cookery lesson, I was a little hesitant. But, ‘when in Puglia, do as they do,’ I thought and we all got stuck in; well,…

  Valerie Knott

  20/04/2015

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• Cooking like a local – Pugliese Style!

  Being British we tend to steal recipes from around the world and adapt them according to our taste, thus making many foreign dishes Britishish! (Do you like the way I just created a new word there?!). We have done this with many Italian dishes too! Take lasagne for example, we tend to make a meaty…

  Valerie Knott

  05/04/2015

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