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Food
Hazelnut risotto recipe from Piedmont.
During my recent visit to Piedmont in Northern Italy, I discovered the importance of checking that the risotto rice you using is authentic. Under Italian law manufacturers can say the rice is from ...
Food and wine in Piedmont, Northern Italy plus recipe for Tiramisu
Varallo Sesia Piedmont is a fairly unknown part of Italy, bordering France and Switzerland. But it is a highly significant region with very different foods from the rest of the country. Here they ...
Persimon fruit leather and goat’s cheese pinwheels
Persimon pinwheels Using the persimon fruit leather, I created pinwheel canapes. 2 rolls fruit leather, cut into 2 inch strips200 g soft goats cheese, whipped1 bergamot or lemon zestlarge ...
The persimon farm, Valencia
Persimons (with one m) grow around Valencia and are the fastest growing fruit in terms of popularity in the UK, outselling pineapples and mangos. Spain is still a very agricultural country - fresh ...
Travel
Spanish Persimon Halloween supper club in pictures and recipes
Yes you read that right, it's persimon with one 'm', rather than two, because they come from a Spanish farm near Valencia. Persimons are also known as Sharon fruit or kaki fruit, and come in two ...
A weekend at Littlecote House, Wiltshire
Readers may recall that my parents had their diamond wedding anniversary earlier this year in Provence. The celebrations aren't finished! Sixty guests, one for every year, were invited to a Tudor ...
Learning to sail in Porto Rafael, Sardinia
The classic tourist destination in Sardinia is the Costa Smeralda, the emerald coast, on the North-East of the island. Emerald is the correct word for the colour of the sea, interspersed with white ...
The pastel shades of Bosa, Sardinia
Bosa is a pretty little Sardinian town on a hillside by the Temo river, a mile inland from the sea, an hour south of Alghero. There has been a town here since the Phoenicians (the Lebanese). I stayed ...
MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.
Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.
This is my food and travel blog, with recipes, reviews and travel stories. I also stray into politics, feminism, gardening.