An Italian in London… cooking, eating and sightseeing
A few weeks ago I posted a recipe for vegan chocolate mousse made with aquafaba, the water in a tin of chickpeas or beans which usually gets discarded before cooking. I became quite a fan of the stuff, and have…
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Once upon a time I used to be an advocate for Nutella, one of Italy’s most iconic food exports (not even sure it is still ‘italian’ nowadays but surely it was first produced in my home country). I stopped buying…
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Have you ever heard of aquafaba? I first came across this relatively new word a year or so ago. It seems it was created putting together aqua (water) and faba (from fava beans) because aquafaba is in fact, the water…
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In an effort to reduce single use plastic in our household (a near impossible task, I fear) I had recently started buying fresh milk from the milkman. It came in lovely, old fashioned bottles which were then picked up at…
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Fluffy…soft… squidgy.. I only discovered marshmallows quite late in life, once I moved to the UK. I hated them initially, as the plasticky, gosh knows what is inside shop bought ones. In my view they are not really that nice…
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