Ajvar is a thick, savoury north Italian sauce from the Friuli region. It is made from roasted red peppers and eggplant with garlic and white wine vinegar. It is typically served with grilled meats in the border regions of Friuli and Slovenia. And the fiery red colour adds…
Bucatini Rafilina: A Little-Known Treasure from Naples Bucatini alla rafilina is a pasta dish from Naples which uses bucatini – a long, thick spaghetti with a hole running through the middle. And the sauce is a simple dressing of cherry tomatoes and parsley with a pinch of chilli.…
This Spaghetti alla Napoletana recipe is a very simple dish of Napoletana tomato sauce stirred through spaghetti. When we were kids, we would eat spaghetti from a tin on a regular basis. It was easy (and cheap) for my mum to empty a couple of tins into a…