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What wonderful meal out have you tried to recreate at home? Was it a success? . Many months back I went to a sourdough pizza restaurant in Florence. I had a pizza spread with onions slow-cooked in chianti wine and then topped with gorgonzola. Oh my, it was good. . Finally I got round to trying something similar. I cooked sliced red onions for ages in olive oil the added a lot of red wine, cooking it down until the liquid had all gone. I spread that on my sourdough spelt pizza (recipe in profile) and topped with a local raw milk pecorino and the last of the basil from the garden. . It was very good. . Next on the list is the other delight I ate there – focaccia stuffed with head cheese :-) . So I want to hear from you! What have you tried to recreate? Did you have to guess the ingredients? Did it live up to your memory?!

November 7, 2022 by

What wonderful meal out have you tried to recreate at home? Was it a success?
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Many months back I went to a sourdough pizza restaurant in Florence. I had a pizza spread with onions slow-cooked in chianti wine and then topped with gorgonzola. Oh my, it was good.
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Finally I got round to trying something similar. I cooked sliced red onions for ages in olive oil the added a lot of red wine, cooking it down until the liquid had all gone. I spread that on my sourdough spelt pizza (recipe in profile) and topped with a local raw milk pecorino and the last of the basil from the garden.
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It was very good.
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Next on the list is the other delight I ate there – focaccia stuffed with head cheese 🙂
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So I want to hear from you! What have you tried to recreate? Did you have to guess the ingredients? Did it live up to your memory?!

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If you are on the run in Florence and want some street food, one of your options is ‘Porchetta’. There are stalls selling it all over the city. It’s pork, rolled with spices, roasted, sliced and laid in the middle of a bread roll. . Here’s my home version with an ancestral twist. I roasted belly pork from @valledelsasso with fennel seeds, garlic, salt and pepper. Beet from the garden (thank you #bokashi compost!) roasted beautifully with some local beans under the pork, catching the juices. I then made a spelt sourdough focaccia with some cold oat porridge in the dough (makes it so soft – I’ll put more pics in my stories). We cut it, stuffed the sliced pork in and served with the veg, some gorgeous crackling and (as just in the distance you can see) some sauerkraut. . I love good street food, but I love sitting down at the table eating whilst the house still smells of roast pork and baking bread more!

November 3, 2022 by

If you are on the run in Florence and want some street food, one of your options is ‘Porchetta’. There are stalls selling it all over the city. It’s pork, rolled with spices, roasted, sliced and laid in the middle of a bread roll.
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Here’s my home version with an ancestral twist. I roasted belly pork from @valledelsasso with fennel seeds, garlic, salt and pepper. Beet from the garden (thank you #bokashi compost!) roasted beautifully with some local beans under the pork, catching the juices. I then made a spelt sourdough focaccia with some cold oat porridge in the dough (makes it so soft – I’ll put more pics in my stories). We cut it, stuffed the sliced pork in and served with the veg, some gorgeous crackling and (as just in the distance you can see) some sauerkraut.
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I love good street food, but I love sitting down at the table eating whilst the house still smells of roast pork and baking bread more!

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