Strawberry Tiramisu’
First of September and it’s the start of the Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight (http://fooddrinkfort.scot/), to celebrate it I decided to use the last of the Scottish strawberries to create this light and fresh tiramisu’. The Scottish berries and soft fruit are the best I ever tasted, my favourite is raspberries, sweet and perfumed when is the season I feast on it as much as I can! Out of season, I don’t buy fresh berries but I tend to use frozen one instead. For the next 2 weeks, I will post more recipes that use the amazing Scottish products. We are very lucky to have amazing ingredients to use and every time…
Pasta with courgettes and courgette flowers
Cooking for an Italian is as vital as breathing and walking, and often we don’t cook from a recipe, but somehow we know how to make the most of what we’ve got. Very often in Italian cookbooks there are terms like q.b. (quanto basta) it means that there is no specific quantity for some ingredients, but you need to use your judgment and your taste to decide how much is enough. Today I went to visit a friend for a nice chat over coffee and she showed me her beautiful vegetable patch, I couldn’t resist and I picked a yellow courgette and a courgette flower and, as soon as I’ve…
