Puglia Party Day 2 – Pittule
Deep-fried bread balls. Need I say anymore? These moreish little dough balls are a Puglian stable when dining at a restaurant or attending a festival. These delectable spheres come to […]
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Puglia Party – a little introduction
Mangia Bene Blog is now one! To help celebrate I would like to invite you all to my Puglia party! Each day, throughout the month of May, I will be […]
Postcards from Italy
It’s a bit late, but here is the second instalment of my series, Postcards from Italy. This time Zia Teresa is using two of my favourite ingredients: aubergines and mortadella. […]
Postcards from Italy
OK… So here goes, the launch of my first regular feature, Postcards from Italy. Every month I will post a recipe that my Italian Auntie has sent to me on the […]
Chicory
I talk about chicory a lot. Not the reddish yellow tipped salad like leaf known by us British, but the long leafy green kind you find in Italy. It seems […]
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 […]
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 […]
Italian Dinner
Last weekend we decided to host an impromptu dinner party. Luckily our friends were free and could make it. We’d been to their houses previously for themed dinner parties […]
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