Category: Italian

• Saving energy in the kitchen when bread and pasta making

  

  A few simple and sensible ideas to help when cooking bread and pasta to manage energy or maximise use of your oven/hob. A quick, low energy pasta recipe included.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 2, 2022

  Food, Frugal food, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice

  energy crisis, energy saving, frugal, hob, ideas, low cost, money, oven

• Breadstick stars

  

  Christmas breadstick stars – based on my grissini recipe and made into cute festive star shapes

  Ink Sugar Spice

  December 17, 2021

  Baking, Bread, Christmas, Festive, Food, Italian, Winter

  Bread, bread sticks, Grissini, hemp seeds, Parmesan, poppy seeds, seeds, stars

• Mini panettone

  

  Gorgeous chocolate and pistachio mini panettone (panettoncini) recipe. Full of festive flavours and surprisingly easy to make.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  December 5, 2021

  Baking, Christmas, Festive, Food, Italian, Winter

  chocolate, Christmas baking, Italian cakes, panettoncini, panettone, pistachios, traditional

• My ‘best’ pizza dough – with a garlic bread recipe

  

  My ‘best’ pizza dough recipe – makes truly fantastic pizza bases or garlic breads, plus a recipe for two garlic bread toppings

  Ink Sugar Spice

  July 5, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Food, Herbs, Italian, Summer, Vegetarian

  garlic bread, pizza, sourdough, starter

• Egg pasta dough – pasta all’uovo

  

  Full instructions and images for egg pasta dough, plus some hints and tips including being frugal/replacement ingredients for lockdown cooking

  Ink Sugar Spice

  May 17, 2020

  Food, Frugal food, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice, Pasta, Pasta information, Techniques

  egg pasta, formula, instructions, lockdown cooking, method, Pasta, pasta making, recipe

• Gnocchi

  

  How to make and cook delicious, pillowy gnocchi, a way to change up cooking with potatoes

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 13, 2020

  All seasons, Food, Food skills, Italian, Pasta, Pasta information, Sides, Techniques

  cicchetti, frugal, gnocchi, lockdown cooking, potato, storecupboard

• Sourdough flatbreads

  

  These are my gorgeous, tangy flatbreads but they do take some commitment as they are fully sourdough, with a pre-ferment stage. I’ve been making sourdough since 2001… I was already making bread by hand for many, many years before this, but started as my twin baby sons began weaning. I was a little obsessed with […]

  Ink Sugar Spice

  March 1, 2020

  Bread, Bread information, Food, Herbs, Italian, Sides, Vegetarian

  flatbread, frying, mother, skillet, slowfood, sourdough, starter, wild yeast

• Pesto and vine tomato schiacciata

  

  Schiacciata bread recipe with vine tomatoes and pesto

  Ink Sugar Spice

  May 29, 2019

  Baking, Bread, Food, Italian, Picnic, Sides, Vegetarian

  Bread, flatbread, focaccia, olive oil, pesto, realbread, Schiacciata, tomatoes, vine tomatoes

• Chilli salt grissini

  

  An easy recipe for taper-thin, crispy grissini / bread sticks with chilli salt coating

  Ink Sugar Spice

  May 20, 2019

  All seasons, Baking, Bread, Food, Ingredient information, Italian

  Bread, breadsticks, chilli, featured, Grissini, salt