Recipes

Tonnarelli cacio e pepe

Fresh tonnarelli, dressed to the nines in a luscious, cheese-y sauce whose richness is interrupted only by the underlying heat of the black pepper. A dish of this will transport you directly to the Eternal City, guaranteed.

London - January 2017

Kicking off 2017 with a trip to one of my favorite cities in the whole world.

TravelFrancesca BruzzeseJanuary 27, 2017Non recipe posts, story posts and travels Comment

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding consists of a cake that is soft and fluffy and just barely sweet, tinged with a caramel-y date flavor, and, while good on its own, reaches its full potential when it meets is soulmate, or rather, an intensely buttery and brown sugary, served-warm-off-the-stove toffee sauce, that is so good, I could've eaten the whole pot of it with a spoon.

Cakes and Cupcakes, ChristmasFrancesca BruzzeseJanuary 23, 2017Comment

Fennel, Orange, and Olive Salad

A salad that is a whole party of textures, flavors, and colors that would put the usual pile of iceberg lettuce to shame: here we've got paper-thin, super crisp anise-flavored fennel, sweet juicy oranges, buttery, crunchy pine nuts, sharp, biting red onion, and salty rich olives, served over a bed of leafy greens, tossed with a splash of fruity olive oil and sunny orange juice.