My Favourite Winter Cake with Olive Oil, Fresh Chestnut flour and NO extra sugar! 6 Tablespoons VIRGO Olive Oil, 4 Cups Chestnut Flour, 1/2 Cup Raisins, Sweet Wine to soak the raisins in, 2-3 Cups Water, Pine Nuts, and fresh rosemary sprigs. Lightly grease a 9 inch spring-form pan or equivalent ( I like it […]
Recipes
Pickled Garlic
Don’t tell me you forgot to pickle some garlic last season! This is the best way to enjoy your garlic in winter, while the next crop grows. All you need is a few garlic bulbs, some white wine vinegar, and a little sugar. Separate the cloves from the bulb, leave the skins on and fill […]
Pizza Bianca with herbs
Pizza bianca is best served immediately but can be reheated quickly on a hot plate or in a heavy frying pan. It has sufficient oil to reheat without adding more oil.
Sweet Glamour Garlic Custard
The above custard served 5. I never quite understand servings, because Phillip and I could quite easily have eaten all of it for dinner and skipped the roast lamb beforehand.
Aioli
This is garlic mayonnaise. Crush two or more cloves of garlic and salt in a mortar using a pestle. It will form a paste. Transfer to bowl, add three egg yolks and mix slowly. Add 300 ml of extra virgin olive oil and keep whisking so that a mayonnaise forms. It should be thick. Keep […]
Tony Bilson’s Olive Oil Ice-cream
Heat the milk with the cream and the split vanilla bean. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until they are light and foamy.