This is based on the recipe given by Marcella Hazan in The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. I have the greatest of respect for Marcella’s recipes, but she has a patronising and rather [...]
This is another delicious pie on a par with the leek and mustard concoction. Eat this warm with a salad and some red wine.
I ate something very similar to this in an Italian restaurant in Nagano, Japan, and thought I’d try to recreate the recipe. It tastes good the day after, but I prefer to eat it straight away, [...]
Often it’s quite late by the time I get to the supermarket. The shop is usually about to close, and the more interesting flora have invariably been borne off by keensters and other assorted [...]
To make this go further, you can add a chopped carrot with the leeks at the beginning, and stir in a tin of red kidney beans with the chopped tomatoes.