Italians would laugh reading this recipe. This is the simplest and yet the best looking salad ever! Insalata Caprese based on only Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil. Easy and so delicious. My favourite! This delicious recipe has been donated by the ASK Italian Cookbook out on 20th November 2012 whose sales will raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
Serves 4-6 / Prep…
This recipe is very handy as it is useful to know what to serve guests at a home party before the main meal. Here you go the classic Italian antipasti. This delicious recipe has been donated by the ASK Italian Cookbookwhose sales raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
Serves 4 / Prep: 10 minutes, or 1 hour 30 minutes if you make the
bread dough from scratch…
Melanzane (Aubergines) are some of my favourite vegetables. This delicious recipe has been donated by the ASK Italian Cookbook out on 20th November 2012 whose sales will raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
Makes 8 rolls, serves 4 / Prep: 35 minutes / Cook: 20 minutes
This quintessentially summer recipe was given to us by ASK Italian’s
extra virgin olive oil…
Yummy recipe! Pesto Burger with Roasted Peppers, an Italian version of the traditional burger. If you ask me, a much better one! But I guess I am biased 🙂
Cooking Time: 15 – 30 mins
Serves: 4
INGREDIENTS
5 level tblsp Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto, plus extra to serve (we used Sacla’ pesto)
4 rounded tblsp mayonnaise
¼ cucumber, roughly grated
4 rounded tblsp soured cream
500g minced…
In the era of digital media, Kindle and iPad, I still love turning the pages of books and particularly children’s books that are so colourful and beautifully illustrated. Here is a selection of London Mums’ favourite books this Christmas.
GOBBOLINO THE WITCH’S CAT
Reissued for its 70th anniversary, this classic tale by Ursula Moray Williams (Illustrated by Catherine Rayner)…
Icklelingo has created a series of books that are ideal starter kits for all those kids who live in multilingual environments as well as the bilingual ones.
We loved 100 Words / 100 Parole (Italian – English). My 6 year old son was born in London and he speaks English at school but at home we speak Italian. He has been raised bilingual and the biggest challenge for me as a parent is to…
Here is London Mums’ selection of favourite bedtime stories.
I Don’t Want to go to Bed!
To celebrate 25 years of Little Tiger Press, a special edition of the classic title, I Don’t Want to go to Bed!, is being reissued in a new paperback format for 2012. I Don’t Want To Go To Bed! written by Julie Sykes and beautifully illustrated by award-winning illustrator Tim Warnes is a very…
I hate openly promoting brands but my 6 year old son is crazy about Lego. I would dare say that he is fanatic about his construction sets and at every opportunity he’s playing with his Lego blocks. He makes cars, rocket ships, boats, houses for the Moshi Monsters etc. There is nothing he would not make actually.
In the last few years we got him the annual Lego books of ideas which are…
WHICH IS YOUR FAVOURITE CLASSIC NOVEL OF ALL TIMES? Mine still is Little Women. I can’t help but crying every time I read this old classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.
Maybe it’s because it was the very first novel that I read as a young girl… I am very pleased that these classics have now been re-published by Vintage Classics (an imprint of The Random House Group) adding the…
The princess and the pig recently published by PanMacmillan is one of the best stories I have read in years. Forget about fairytales and princess’ dream worlds… this story brings us back to reality and shows how much nicer it is to live a simple life surrounded by loving parents no matter what their wealth is. Absolutely brilliant!
The light-hearted story is also beautifully…