desserts, cakes and other sweet things
When we moved back from Italy in the 1970s, we settled into what was then the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. We bought a brand new house and had spent nearly all of the family savings moving to Italy and then migrating back to Australia. So papa’ built some of the furniture we used in those […]Read Post ›
I love living in the inner city for a whole lot of reasons, but particularly for the food. I am surrounded by great delicatessens, fresh produce markets and smaller gourmet supermarkets and it makes it so much easier when I need to buy specialised or imported ingredients to cook with. I love being able to […]Read Post ›
My mother adores torrone (nougat), especially the hard variety that shatters when you try to cut it. If we ever want to give her a special treat, hard torrone is an obvious choice. Years ago it was pretty much impossible to find in Australia, all you could find was the soft version. It was somewhat of […]Read Post ›
On my recent trip to Central Sicily I quite unexpectedly became fascinated by wheat. The fields were full of it – vivid green patches in the rolling hills that rustled as the wind blew through them – and if you looked closely enough, you might see flowers sprouting in there as well. There were bunches […]Read Post ›
italy on my mind 