This is my definition of a perfect pasta dish. Good quality minced meat swimming in deep flavours of garlic, tomatoes and herbs combined with your favourite pasta shape topped with cheese is a dish with exquisite character and personality. You’ll find that, this meat sauce recipe calls for marginal effort without compromising on the much-required rustic…
Risotto is a classic Italian comfort food that is acquired through patient cooking. In this fast paced world, I know plenty of people would refrain from making a risotto only for the reason that it is time-consuming. It is probably easier to pick up the phone and order in. But for me, I love cooking…
Caprese, the world-renowned Italian salad is absolutely striking in ever manner – the colour combination of fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and fresh Italian basil with the outburst of flavours from the balsamic vinaigrette really takes your taste palate for a spin!!! Now picture the Caprese salad on your favourite kind of Bagel. What you get is…
Here is a dish that takes about 15 minutes to prepare and is truly soul satisfying. I think the coconut cream stole the limelight in this dish and gave the repetitive tomato sauce a whole new life. Go for it the vegan way and you most definitely fall in love with the world of veganism. To…
Homemade meatball is a complete new level of palatability, quite unlike the frozen ones in the supermarket. This delicious and wholesome, Italian-American dish is ideal for any dining table. The sauce for this dish is also homemade and very basic but fail proof. This same sauce, I use for other pasta and pizza base. You…
The very amazing thing about food is that it allows you (your taste buds basically) to travel to any country you like! Today, in this post, let’s escape to Italy… Mamma Mia!! Italy spoils you with its choices. I have often heard my vegetarian friends complain about food when they travel but never about Italian…
My younger brother was hooked on spinach when he was a little boy, thanks to Popeye the sailor man and his habit of guzzling down tins and tins of spinach to upsize his muscles. It was not only him who doubled his intake of vegetables but there were as many as 20% increases in the…
Isn’t pasta your favourite meal to cook? It is, after all, inexpensive, highly nutritious, extremely versatile and some versions like baked pasta are all the better for being made in advance as the flavours have a chance to mingle and develop. I love any version of baked pasta. These are fantastic for taking to any…
My kids don’t regard it as a good week unless they’ve had pasta at least twice, but that’s fine by me! I love making pasta simply because so much can be done with it in terms of flavouring and using nutritional ingredients. This is my mother’s recipe of an “everyday pasta”, which is full of…
For busy people, especially those with large families, it is essential to have recipes of a few ultimate comfort foods at hand. Spinach Lasagna is precisely such a meal, one that’s nourishing, comforting and soothing. Better yet, it is also a dish well known to fetch requests for seconds. With layers of ooey-goeey cheesiness and…