Cooking with Carmelo: Roasted Vegetables “Antipasto”
Chef Carmelo Sortino and I are keen to promote some simple vegetarian recipes while we are confined at home and need to stay healthy and inspired in the kitchen. This is a theme that will run through the next series of recipes that I will be posting over the next…
Cooking with Carmelo: Risotto with Pork Sausage and Red Wine
From Carmelo’s Kitchen: Servings: 2 Sauce: 1 tbsp / 15ml olive oil 1 cup / 250ml large red onion, medium chopped 1 sprig fresh rosemary, finely chopped Pinch sea salt mixed with 1/4 cup / 50ml Herbs de Provence (savoury, marjoram, thyme, oregano) Sausages: 1/2 lb / 227g Sweet Italian…
Cooking with Carmelo
Sicilian-born Chef Carmelo Sortino has been cooking since he was 14 years old, starting in his uncle’s pastry shop where he became fascinated with baking and making marzipan. Two years later, he moved to Milan to work for the Ricci Company before being offered a place at Giuseppe Ciocca’s culinary…
Favourite Quotes
To Travel is To Live – Hans Christian Anderson Life isn’t about Finding Yourself – Life is about Creating Yourself – George Bernard Shaw Not all Those who Wonder are Lost – JRR Tolkein The Real Voyage of Discovery consists not in Seeking New Landscapes, but having New Eyes –…
Tuscany 2016
Tuscany is especially beautiful in the Fall. It’s golden slopes and slender trees, its sienna sunsets and pastel skies, its red, red wine. I can remember the sounds and smells as if it were yesterday. I stayed at Villa Fonte, on the outskirts of Certaldo a short drive to San…