When I was in Altamura in Puglia I worked with a family of bakers who all lived in the same big house. Each part of the family had its own living-room and kitchen. I went back home with them one day and 4 different families were cooking 4 different meals ...
My friend April, who’s the chef at the Spotted Pig gastropub in New York, serves these with her famous blue cheese hamburger. She calls them shoestring fries, but in classic old-English game cooking they’re called straw potatoes.
Even though artichokes are a really everyday ingredient in Italy, in the UK they do feel very luxurious. This is a basic risotto bianco with very thinly sliced artichokes added to it, which give it a wonderful perfume. You need small artichokes for this d ...
This is such a simple, clean and delicious risotto. When buying asparagus, have a look around because there are lots of varieties available now - purple-tipped, white, thin straggly Japanese, wild Spanish and dozens of good locally grown English.