Tag: Expat cooking like a local

• 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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• 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! – 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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