Foodie Favourites
Over the years we have been helped, supported and hugely inspired by chefs and food writers and their ideas for creating delicious Italian food. We are delighted to share some of their favourite recipes with you here - and keep watching because there will be many more coming in the months ahead.
Karen Barnes (visit the delicious magazine website)
Roasted Tomato and Bacon Pasta
Karen Barnes is a passionate cook and her passion is to encourage everyone to cook – thank goodness she gets plenty of opportunity holding the coveted role of Editor for delicious magazine. Here’s her delicious recipe for Tomato Pasta which she serves up three times a month she tells us!
Orla Broderick
Char-Grilled Mediterranean Sandwich
Orla Broderick lives in Dublin with her young family and has recently worked on the Cookery programme Masterchef Ireland.
This "sandwich" is picnic-perfect and barbeque-brilliant!
Jane Curran (visit woman&home website)
Artichoke Tart
This recipe from the Cookery Editor of woman&home magazine is delicious and takes no time at all to make. Do check out their gorgeous quarterly food glossy woman&home Feel Good Food which Jane also edits with Sue James – it’s full of lovely recipes like this Artichoke Tart.
Matthew Fort (visit his website)
Grilled Mackerel with Warm Potato Salad
Matthew Fort is one of Britain’s leading food writers and is witty, knowledgeable, passionate and discerning. He also appears regularly on television, most recently on Great British Menu. He loves Italian food and these two recipes are from Sicily.
Silvana Franco (visit her website)
Chorizo, white bean and pesto soup
Silvana Franco is an inspirational and innovative food writer, stylist and TV presenter with a lot to say about food. And we are sure this recipe will get everybody talking.
Catherine Fulvio (visit her website)
Pesto Aubergine Bake with Creamy Saffron Sauce
Catherine Fulvio grew up on a farm in Ireland and married an Italian and now runs Ballyknocken Cookery School in Co. Wicklow (well worth a visit) as well as being a TV chef & food writer. Look out for her brand new book too, "Catherine’s Family Kitchen".
Henrietta Green
Simple Pasta Dressing
We’re lucky enough to have known Henrietta Green since the start of the UK business back in 1991, and she’s been a great friend ever since. We so admire her tireless enthusiasm and campaigning for the very best of great British food – and we love this recipe for a simple pasta dressing, made from ingredients found in most respectable food lovers' kitchens. If they’re not in yours, check out the website pronto!
Valentina Harris (visit her website)
Lasagne with Pesto and Potatoes
What Valentina Harris doesn’t know about Italian food isn’t worth knowing! She teaches, runs events, consults, writes, broadcasts and runs cookery holidays. And she’s written more than 20 books. Wow!
Helena Lang
Pesto Chicken Tagliatelle
Helena Lang loves rustling up tasty meals for her family and friends, and this recipe is one of her favourites. She has many years experience on top womens’ glossy magazines and now, as Editor of Sainsbury’s Magazine, she crafts each monthly edition to appeal to busy working women who love to cook.
Mitzie Wilson (visit her website)
Chicken and Pesto Lasagne
Mitzie’s new book "Mince!" has just won the world Gourmand single subject cookbook award for the UK, and this delicious recipe for Chicken Pesto Lasagne is taken straight from it. It contains over 100 fabulous, frugal and very very tasty dishes.
Phil Vickery (visit his website)
Olive Oil Poached Rabbit
Phil Vickery does English cooking brilliantly and his puddings are perfectly supreme - a combination which places him as one of Britain's favourite chefs. We spent some fun days with him in Italy recently, where he fell in love with this traditional recipe for rabbit in olive oil.
Photo by Dale Cherry
Lorna Wing
Aubergine Pesto, Black Olive and Basil Dip
Lorna Wing is described as "the peerless expert on food and entertaining" and we’re thrilled she has shared this recipe with us.
Antony Worrall Thompson (visit his website)
Grilled Shellfish Gazpacho
Antony Worrall Thompson is something of a legend – a prolific writer and broadcaster, a fantastic restaurateur and a businessman. Did you know that he loves Middle White pigs and has an avocado farm in Spain? No wonder his recipe for Grilled Shellfish Gazpacho is so good.
Photo by Nick Ayliffe
