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…

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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…

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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 –…

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