Hints and tips:
...we had plenty of reasons to want to go outside and have a picnic: because it was the only thing that we were allowed to do; because our friend Max Halley’s take on picnics — think Mary Berry and Hunter S...
...But The Smith had thrown in a ricotta gnocchi kit (doughy pasta that managed to seem both firm and weightless, coated in a truffle cream sauce), spicy salmon tartare on crispy rice cakes with sriracha aioli...
...Dinner began with some crisp baguette and sourdough from Yoshida bakery, with which we mopped up marinated cucumber underneath ricotta — though none of the herb jam promised on the menu....
...The ricotta and herb gnudi are well flavoured but semi-liquid in texture and they lose their identities in the sauce. Finally, the cannoli....
...The NYT looks at how local dairy farms are keeping shops stocked with Brie and ricotta through geopolitically difficult times....
...Pedantic, yes, but the desire to explain properly is an appealing feature of his new six-part series, More4’s Simon Hopkinson Cooks, which airs early next month....
...There is an old saying in Sicily: “Quannu s’asciucanu i balati dà Vucciria.” It translates as “when the streets of the Vucciria run dry” but means “when hell freezes over”....
...McGuinness is U2’s fifth Beatle....
...During the meal I asked A16’s manager about the copyright line but I got no reply....
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