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Crab spaghetti with orange olive oil

Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged , , , , , , , on March 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »

My mum was a proper 60s feminist and, amongst many things, she made absolutely sure I grew up doing my fair share in the kitchen and knowing how to cook. One of the plus sides of this was that I got to hang out with my mum a lot. Following the old lady’s lead I’m always [...]

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Guest Post: Anne-Laure’s Pineapple dessert with Nudo orange oil and rum

Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Pineapple chunks and raisins caramelized in Nudo orange oil and rum, served with vanilla ice cream In this refreshing and unusual dessert, olive oil is used to caramelize the pineapples, infusing them with a subtly grassy flavour and giving them a beautiful gloss butter can’t match. The pineapple chunks fray away effortlessly in the mouth, [...]

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French Fairy Foodmother: Anne-Laure Ropars teaches us to cook again

Posted in Your Stories, tagged , , , , , , , on March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »

In late 2009 we received a friendly email from a French lady called Anne-Laure Ropars inviting us to have a look at her new recipe blog.  Now we get lots of those every week, but when we set eyes on the Tasty Diaries, we knew we had found a kindred spirit. Tasty Diaries is a [...]

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Exhibitions, trade shows, thingy-ma-jigs

Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Earl’s Court exhibition centre is one of those places I must have walked past or driven past or gone past in the bus a hundred times. Not once did it cross my mind that I would ever go in, let alone wearing a badge saying ‘Exhibitor’. Like most new things, there was a whole new [...]

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Springtime chocolate mousse with mandarin olive oil

Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Chocolate and mandarin is a magical flavour combination – and following the rave reviews for our mandarin olive oil chocolates, we’ve been inspired to experiment further with olive oil for desert. We think this one is a gem; the oil makes the mousse extra smooth and silky, and the orange flavour shines through like a [...]

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Sausages with Castelluccio lentils

Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This time of year reminds me of heading up into the Sibillini Mountains in Umbria to the Castelluccio Plain. It’s an old dried out lake bed at the top of the mountains, set amidst craggy outcrops but completely flat. En route, there’s a little visual ‘amuse bouche’ (‘amuse oeil’?) which is a forest of trees grown [...]

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Premier Food Blogger: Paula Jones

Posted in Your Stories, tagged , , , , , on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Paula Jones, a blogger on Italian food being featured in our series on Nudo’s international foodie friends, is one of our favourite discoveries of the past few months.  Not only is she a much-loved blogger at Bellalimento.com, but she is also quite the foodiepreneur (yes, food entrepreneur) turning her passion into a profitable online media [...]

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Guest Post: Paula’s Spaghetti Aglio Olio e Peperoncino

Posted in Jason's Recipes, Your Stories, tagged , , , , , , , on March 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »

This might possibly be one of the quickest & most simplest dishes you will ever make. It has only 4 ingredients but those four ingredients come together to make an incredible display of fireworks in your mouth! It’s an explosion of flavors that you won’t soon forget. The first time I ever had Spaghetti Aglio [...]

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