A full recipe index of my recipes over the past 14 years
I will update this as I can, and possibly, when I find the time, I might add the 200 recipes from my old Regional Italian Food column at Food 52 as well.
On measurements
I use metric weight rather than volume in my recipes as I find it more accurate and, personally, more convenient. If you rely on cups, please note that Australian, British and US cups and tablespoons all have slightly different measurements – how confusing! Where there are cup measurements, I use a 250ml cup measurement a 20ml tablespoon (so, for example, if you’re using US tablespoons which are 15ml, be generous). If you need to convert these measurements, just starting typing the conversion into google and you’ll find the answer! If in doubt, weight is always the most accurate.
Shortcuts (these will take you to the recipes tagged under these themes for a browse)
Vegetarian
Pasta
Baking
Tuscany
Pizza
Kids in the kitchen
Essentials
Antipasti e Merende ~ Starters and snacks
Handmade Bread, Pies, Pizza
Pasta
Crespelle, gnudi, gnocchi etc
Soup and Risotto
Meat
Eggs
Seafood
Vegetables and salads
Frozen desserts
Desserts
- An egg for a child (like a zabaione)
- Apricot Jam Crostata
- Baked Apples
- Berlingozzo cake
- Biancomangiare (almond milk pudding)
- Black locust (Acacia) flower cake
- Blood orange and rosemary cake
- Bomboloni (jam-filled donut balls)
- Buckwheat and jam cake
- Budino di riso (baked rice pudding)
- Chocolate, almond and lemon torta from Sicily
- Chocolate cake (eggless, butterless)
- Chocolate cake from Anna Tasca Lanza (flourless, effortless)
- Cinnamon bomboloncini
- Cinnamon fritters
- Colomba for Easter
- Crostata di marmellata
- Crostata di ricotta e pere coscia (ricotta and baby pear tart)
- Crostata di susine selvatiche (wild plum tart)
- Crostatine di ciligie (little cherry tarts)
- Elderflower fritters (a Renaissance recipe)
- Elizabeth David’s Chocolate Cake
- Fig Frangipane Tart
- Four ingredient birthday cake (happens to be gluten free and dairy free)
- Frittelle di Riso (rice fritters)
- Kaiserschmarren or Frittelle spezzate (broken pancakes)
- Little lemon polenta cakes (a favourite)
- Mandarin jelly
- Maritozzi (Roman buns with whipped cream)
- Mascarpone and blackberry chocolate tart
- Mascarpone and blackberry cake
- Mascarpone and raspberry no-bake pandoro cake
- Mascarpone cream with fresh strawberry sauce
- Millefoglie (puff pastry and diplomat cream layered cake)
- Minne di Sant’Agata (Sicilian ricotta pastries)
- Necci (Tuscan chestnut flour crepes)
- Nocciolata sponge roll
- Pandiramerino (rosemary and raisin buns)
- Panforte (spicy Sienese fruit and nut cake)
- Panforte with chestnut flour (gluten free and vegan)
- Panna cotta (the ultimate wobbly panna cotta)
- Pastiera Napoletana (Easter cake from Naples)
- Peach and amaretti tart
- Pistachio, polenta and olive oil cake
- Polenta and poached pear cake
- Pumpkin bread with Tuscan spices
- Ricotta, spelt and dark chocolate cake
- Ricotta al forno, the simplest baked ricotta cake
- Robinia flower cake
- Robinia flower fritters
- Rose petal and ricotta tartlets
- Saffron and ricotta frosting for cake
- Sanguinaccio dolce (blood and chocolate pudding)
- Semolino pudding with loquats
- Schiacciata di Pasqua (Tuscan Easter cake)
- Semolina cake
- Strawberry Tiramisu
- Stuffed peaches
- Swiss roll with alchermes mascarpone cream and pistachio
- Tiramisu, the classic way
- Tiramisu alla fragola (strawberry tiramisu)
- Tiramisu, with fig and ricotta
- Torrone sardo (Sardinian nougat)
- Torta alle nocciole (hazelnut and espresso cake)
- Torta di Cachi (persimmon cake)
- Torta Caprese (flourless chocolate and almond cake)
- Torta con i ciccioli (memories of an old cake with pork scratchings)
- Torta di mandorla (Nonna Vera’s simple almond cake)
- Torta Margherita (three-ingredient, gluten free sponge cake)
- Torta di Mele (apple cake)
- Torta di Noci (walnut cake with lemon buttercream, a truly divine cake)
- Torta di Pasta Frolla (pastry and jam tart)
- Torta di susine (plum and ricotta tart)
- Torta di Zucca Gialla (Artusi’s pumpkin pie)
- Tronco di natale (Christmas yule log)
- White pound cake
- Zabaione (see also An egg for a child)
Pastries and cookies
Drinks
Preserves and the like
Other things
Photo above of my ricotta and spinach gnudi by Julie Wilson-Haines.