Courgette Fritters
As the courgette season slowly comes to an end, I look down at our plants, whose roots look almost tentacle like from us continually picking their fruit – they’ve served […]
Author Archives: Gabriella
Tiramisu (pick me up)
Everyone seems to have their own take on Tiramisu. When I was little I remember eating heaps of the creamy dessert laden with booze and decorated with colorful splotches of […]
Fried Zucchini Flowers
Eating these might be one of my earliest memories. I’d like to say it was also one of my happiest memories (which putting them into my mouth possibly was) but […]
Green beans in tomato sauce
I could eat these all day long and have been eating green beans this way since I can remember. My auntie started this trend off within our family by bringing […]
Elderflower Cordial
For the first time last year I made my own elderflower syrup. I was rather excited by the prospect, not just because I love foraging, but because we were going […]
What to do when you’ve got a big stash of aubergines – Aubergines Tre Modi (three ways)
Hooray! The sun finally made an appearance last week and it was a very welcomed one indeed. The more the sun beams down onto my extremely willing skin which eagerly […]
Guesstimated Sticky Ginger Loaf
My mum rarely wrote any of her recipes down, much to my family’s disappointment, as well as mine. The majority of her cake recipes were quite easy to remember, but […]
Gab Cab (a.k.a Cabbage Stew)
My good friend Harriet nicknamed this dish. I was writing out a few recipes for her to christen her new kitchen with, when she shouted out ‘GAB CAB!’ with fits […]
Mum’s Giant Chocolate Fudge Cake
My Mum’s cakes were quite well known in Bristol. We ran a small café in Westbury-on-Trym called Bristol 9. We sold lots of homemade goodies including cupcakes, flapjacks and toffee […]
Bottarga
I think I may have inadvertently discovered my new favourite ingredient – Bottarga. On a recent trip visiting my family in Bristol my father handed me an intriguing grey block […]
Mangia Bene 