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Salsa ai Funghi - A simple but delicious sauce for pasta and meats

Of all the things we cook for our guests, the one they always ask the recipe for is the mushroom sauce which we serve with the handmade tagliatelle they have prepared in the

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Recipe: Super Salsa Verde!

We're putting this up due to a few requests for the recipe from former Cook Eat Discover guests who we prepared it for in Tuscany. Vivid green and delicious with meats, fish and

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Pasta of the Week - Strozzapreti: “Priest stranglers!’

Some pasta shapes’ names have no meaning, they’re just names. Some have very literal translations, as in the case: ‘Strozza' = strangle, ‘Preti’- priests, so ‘Priest Stranglers'!As with many Italian dishes

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SOUPER BOWL! Recipe of the Week: Aqua Cotta

Aqua Cotta - A little known Tuscan gem of a soup that we absolutely love! It’s specific to the Maremma region in which we are based, and it’s a real meal

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Spaghetti alla Puttanesca! What is 'Whore’s Spaghetti’ and why should you learn to cook it?

The naughtily named spaghetti alla Puttanesca, literally whore’s spaghetti, is a perfect 'I’ve-got-nothing-in-the-fridge-and-I-can’t-be-bothered-to-go-to-the-shop’ solution. Garlic, tomato, olives, capers, chilli, spaghetti. Easy peasy. So what’s with the name? There are

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You Need to Learn to Make...Pasta alla Norma!

Alrighty then, who the hell is Norma? I have no idea, something about an Opera, or summat…What we do know, though, is that it’s a delicious Sicilian classic, full of the

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5 Ways You're Cooking Pasta Wrong!

1 You’re Not Salting The Water Enough We’re all getting a bit funny about salt aren’t we? High salt and sugar processed food has led to a bit of a

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Flawless Foolproof Foccacia

Focaccia looks wonderful doesn’t it? Golden brown, thickly crusted, dimpled, rosemary sprigged and flecked with shards of salt. Surely the kind of thing only a master baker could achieve?….WRONG! Focaccia is

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Supermarket Wine of the Week! Chianti Contralto, Sainsbury’s, 12.5%, £5.75

Ok so I know we already did a Chianti a couple of weeks back when we looked at a Tesco’s Finest Classico Riserva….but in this Contralto we’re looking at a

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Wild Food Special Recipe Pt 1: Elderflower Cordial

Want to be able to claim that you ‘forage’, but don’t know where to start? Elderflower cordial is wild food foraging made easy. Pour your friends a prosecco and homemade elderflower cordial

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Wild Food Special Pt. 2: Cooking with nettles

Zuppa di ortica e asparagi Nettle and Asparagus Soup You can actually leave the asparagus out and go full nettle, but the asparagus adds a nice seasonal touch and goes nicely with the

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Supermarket Wine of the Week! Burdizzo Vermentino, 2016, Asda, 12%, £6.18

Vermentino isn’t the best known grape - but it’s a popular white wine grape in Tuscany and super underrated in our opinion. It’s a great all rounder, but as Vermentino's

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Bangin' Bruschetta: Tips and Toppings Ideas

I think bruschetta gets a bad rep in Britain, mainly because they usually consist of some bland, anaemic tomatoes on a piece of soggy cotton-wool bread. This isn't complex food, but they can

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Perfect Panna Cotta - the essence of simplicity!

Many people I’ve spoken to seem to have a bizarre irrational fear of making panna cotta. With a faraway look of dread in their eyes, they tell me of the experiences that

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Veggie Heaven: Sicilian Sweet and Sour Aubergine Caponata

This is vegetarian Italian food at its best! Veggies - are you sick of being served the same old dishes? Beetroot and goat's cheese...butternut squash risotto....a depressing, shrivelled roasted mushroom?! Well

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5 Minute No-Cook Spinach Pesto, (plus a quick bit of pesto chit-chat)

So you’re fed up of meat, you feel fat and you need something easy with a few vitamins in it. What do you do? You make Cook Eat Discover’s easy spinach

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5 Reasons To go on a Cook Eat Discover Italian adventure

1 Intimate, chef-led cooking classes you’ll really learn from Ever been on a course or workshop where it feels like the instructor is just going through the motions? That’s just not

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Gnocchi, Gnocchi, Knockin' on Heaven's Door

So, let's talk about gnocchi guys. People here on our British isles seem to be a bit 'Marmite' when it comes to gnocchi. A lot of folk aren't that knocked out by them,

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