In August, when everyone stops working and all businesses close down in Italy, there is time to spend days cooking. The simple bliss of slicing, chopping, blending, boiling and eating. Veal tonnato (or Vitello tonnato) is a classic summer dish consumed by the truckload in Milan. It really benefits from being made slowly over a [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Veal Tonnato
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged capers, Jason Gibb, Milan, Nudo, recipes, summer, tonnato, tuna, veal, vitello on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Adventures in Le Marche
Posted in Resources, tagged adopt an olive tree, adventures, ascoli piceno, cathy rogers, dolce vita diaries, fermo, Italy, Nudo, travel on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best things about moving to a new region is that every trip out of the house becomes an adventure. Le Marche, unlike its more famous cousins in Tuscany and Umbria, doesn’t really have iconic centres such as Florence or Siena or Assisi which are always an immediate draw for tourists, a ‘tick’ [...]
Haddock Ceviche
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged chillies, cod, fishing quotas, haddock, illegal fishing, Jason Gibb, limes, marine stewardship council, recipes on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reading that 50% of the cod we eat in Europe has been caught illegally. That is, it is catch far beyond the agreed sustainable fishing quotas. So it’s more important than ever to think about where your fish is coming from. The Marine Stewardship Council have set up a great, simple certification scheme: [...]
Summer Lamb with Sweet Chilli Glaze
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged dolce vita diaries, Jason Gibb, lamb, Nudo, recipes, sweet chilli on June 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We have a new sweet chilli jam. It’s made by our friend Silvano Buccolini, who is famous for making sapa and a slow food nut. Slow food is no mean feat for a man who talks twenty to the dozen and has the heart rate of a small mammal. The only thing (apart from eating [...]
Lemon Chicken Breasts
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged chicken, dolce vita diaries, Italy, Jason Gibb, lemon oil, Nudo, recipe on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nudo fan Nathan from Brooklyn, New York sent me a great recipe using our lemon oil. It’s real simple and guaranteed to fill your kitchen with a zesty aroma. Ingredients for 4 portions Chicken breasts – 4 Lemon olive oil – 4 tablespoons Garlic – 2 cloves Flour – for dredging Salt & Pepper – [...]
