Tortelli di zucca – filled pasta with pumpkin

Tortelli di Zucca Pasta Fresca Home-made Pasta filled with pumpkinKeen to demonstrate his prowess with the pasta machine, Fidget set a cracking pace that demanded a perfectly coordinated operation for success…  Continue reading

Mushroom and pumpkin savoury tart / Torta salata zucca e funghi

Pumpkin Mushroom Quiche Autumn En Plein Air Savory Tart

While others might capture the essence of beautifully coloured leaves and nature in all its glory, Fidget’s artistic vision conjures up ripe pumpkins, mushrooms, truffles and succulent wild boar in salmì… Continue reading

Cannelloni with pumpkin and pancetta / Cannelloni zucca e pancetta

cannelloni

Fidget is trying hard to impress Fifi these days, but surely this is not the way to go! Unfortunately, with Salmon as partner-in-crime there’s no end to the chaos these buffoons could create in the cartoon kitchen… even turning it into a grooming parlour. Continue reading

Risotto with sausage and pumpkin

any more pumpkins left

Careful readers will have noticed that the pumpkin gets a lot of airtime at Fidget and the Rowes. Why? Well, the Rowes’ extended family have been blessed with a bumper crop of the crusty old orange vegetable this year. So, if you don’t like pumpkins, look away now, but if you do… Continue reading

Rack of lamb with Harissa (or ‘give turkey a break’)

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Don’t ask, but Salmon found himself in charge over Christmas this year. Unprecedented and – judging by Trota’s reaction – it may never happen again. Anyway, trying to be festive and also wanting to avoid the usual turkey, Salmon thought he’d really push the boat out…but probably wished he’d gone fishing instead… Continue reading