Heralding Hurricane Season
A brief history of the Hurricane Lamp.
Time, as always, has marched on, and as the year approaches its half way point, and the days lengthen to the max, our thoughts turn to longer evenings spent…
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Prosecco Perfection
A brief look at Prosecco, the perky Italian aperitif.
Prosecco is Italy’s answer to sparkling wine. It is well-made but at a reasonable price, and like a beautiful view from your own home, it’s nice, but familiar and…
Pasta, Pesto & Green Beans
Simple sustenance: Pasta, Pesto & Green Beans recipe.
Simple Italian cooking for weeknight suppers can’t get much easier than pasta, pesto & green beans. I find this is a perfect spring-time recipe when you still need comforting…
The Garibaldi
General of Italian Cocktails.
Not to be confused with the biscuit, this Italian cocktail is also named after Garibaldi, the famous Italian military general. It’s a bitter sweet complex concoction, yet easily ‘built’…
Ingredient Spotlight: Salt and Pepper
The Yin & Yang of the dinner table… with a sprinkle of good luck.
Both salt and pepper have from time immemorial been highly valued commodities, traded, smuggled, sold and bartered far across the world. They are deeply embedded in our universal consciousness…
Ingredient Spotlight: Parmesan
Parmigiano-Reggiano: Perfectly Piquant, Pleasantly Pungent.
One can buy ‘Parmesan-style’ grated cheese in pots with perforated lids for ease of sprinkling from any supermarket – and the taste and smell is admittedly strong and pungent,…
Mother’s Day
For mums everywhere...
Like Father’s Day, we should not wait until a prescribed socially-constructed day to honour our mothers. Of course. as with any family member and loved one, we should celebrate…
Thank you, Bryn Eglur
Thank you to 'The Welsh House' for our recent photoshoot at Bryn Eglur: rustic realism in rural Carmarthenshire.
The idyllic 18th Century traditional Welsh farmhouse, Bryn Eglur, framed the subtle beauty of Cosi Tabellini’s pewter pieces to perfection during our winter photoshoot. Bryn Eglur, meaning clear hill…
Thank you, Ty Unnos
Thank you to 'The Welsh House' for our recent photoshoot at Ty Unnos: the forever fascinating 'One Night House'.
The Welsh tradition of a Ty Unnos, translated literally as ‘one night house’, where an individual of limited means would erect a house on common land between sunset and…
Breakfast in Bed…
Kisses from me...
To serve, or be served, breakfast in bed to mark Valentine’s Day must surely be the height of love and romance… (well, it is for me!). The selfless act…