When COVID-19 struck Italy we were all sent into one of Europes strictest lockdowns. Cooking for me was a way of working through the uncertainties of this time. Cooking also became a fixed part of our daily routine while home everyday and having to prepare meals for the whole family. Lockdown Cooking recipes are easy recipes using store cupboard essentials and include plenty of notes for substitutions, for when you can’t find all you need in the shops.
Who doesn’t love a warm bowl of soup to wrap your hands around on a cold day? Fennel Soup is one of my personal favourites, the soothing sweet flavour of sautéed Fennel, even the kids here love it! Onions add a little sweetness and the potato in this recipe adds a creaminess to the final …
Easy Thai Fish cakes are just the thing for a quick but yummy dinner during this lockdown. It has been seriously difficult having to cook every single meal, from breakfast to dinner, every day for all four of us, during this lockdown. It isn’t always possible to find all the ingredients we want, and we …
Who Doesn’t love a light icy Italian Gelato? Full of flavour and refreshingly light. Most summer evenings in Italy we enjoy a Gelato while strolling around Como. My husbands family in Sicily had two ‘Pasticcerias’ in Sicily and they made incredible Gelato every day, using all the wonderful fruits and nuts that Sicily has to …
This week called for something from home, Tea Cake or Brambrack as we call it in Ireland. Here in Como, the morning air is still fresh, so a cup of Irish Tea for breakfast with something not too sweet but full of flavour is what I wanted. Mam used to make Brambrack for us for …
Create your own Sourdough Starter, it is really very easy. During the COVID Lockdown we are all spending much more time at home, and its isn’t always possible to go out daily to find fresh bread, or to find yeast in the supermarket. Luckily most small shops and supermarkets still have flour, and that is …
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Are you new to baking with Sourdough? This is a great easy recipe for delicious light sourdough bread rolls with that distinctive sourdough crust. Have you just created you every own Sourdough Starter and you are now ready to bake? If you don’t yet have a starter you can follow my 7 easy steps to …
Running out of yeast? Want to let your yeast stock last longer? You can use WAY LESS dried yeast than you think. Read on for my special Lockdown yeast bread recipe and tips on how to save that precious dried yeast. Recipes usually call for a full sachet of dried yeast that’s 7g for 500g …
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This Gluten free soda bread recipe, is the result of lots of experiments and home, and lots of tastings by the kids! So this one is kid and mum approved! When my son was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease a few years ago, we embarked on a Gluten-Free diet. For a passionate baker and lover of …
#quarantine #corona #IrishSodaBread #bakingbread #easybaking #noyeast #quickbread #healthybread This soda bread started me on my bread making adventure many years ago, but that’s a story for another time. Right now in the middle of quarantined Italy, we all need to be able to make breads easily and with the kind of simple ingredients we all …
#Piadina #lockdown #quarantine #iostoacasa #stayathome #cookingduringcorona What ever the hashtag, this recipe is perfect during this period of staying at home during the Corona virus lockdown. It is week 4 of our lockdown here in Como, and this recipe was one of the first I went to, when we ran out of fresh bread for …
This is a great first bread to begin with. It couldn’t be simpler. You need a nice freshly fed sourdough starter (see my 7 days to make your own on), good wholegrain flour although ANY flour is good to get started, this is a VERY forgiving recipe. No Kneading. and here I have also included …
