M&E Kitchen Tales

04/04/2023

Easter week = Easter food 😁

Well... We started celebrating already with a mini pastiera cake!!!! That's just the beginning 😜 Pastiera is a Neapolitan traditional cake made in Italy during Easter. It comes from Naples but very popular all over Italy! It's a shortcrust filled with ricotta, wheat grains, lemon and candied orange. The smell is a mix of orange, ricotta and vanilla ingredients and it tastes fabulous!!!

Lazy to bake one but luckily we can buy a good one in the nearby bakery shop!!! And... we did 😋☺️

20/03/2023

Happy belated Mother's day to all mums in UK! 💐

Yesterday we celebrated Father's Day in Italy. It's Saint Joseph day and like you know we always have a typical food for any occasion!!! On Saint Joseph's day the bakeries, patisseries and grannies in Italy bake the bigne' di San Giuseppe and also the Zeppole!

Bignè are filled with creme pat or ricotta, they are the beignet like the one used for the profiteroles but way bigger. Could be fried or baked in the oven.

Zeppole are similar to bignè but they are filled with creme pat and visciole on top and there is so much that comes out! Visciole are berries, and they taste like heaven! 😁 Same goes that could be fried or baked on oven.

Which ones are M&E favourite??? E loves the Zeppole... Mr M likes ... both 😁

18/03/2023

Tomorrow is San Giuseppe (Saint Joseph) day in Italy and Italians celebrate it as Dad's day 💙 We went to Santa Marinella today visiting the San Giuseppe's fair. There was a funfair, food stalls and local shops. We will tell you more about the typical food made on Dad's day tomorrow because today we had an aperitivo in Santa Marinella beautiful square with some Neapolitan's street food! In our pic you can see:

- Montanara = deep fried pizza dough with tomato sauce, mozzarella, parmisan and a leave of basil on top!

- Frittura di calamari = fried squids and little octopus

- Fritattina di pasta = fried pasta with peas, ham, besciamel

- cuoppo misto = a mix of fried pizza, fried potatoes, supplì (fried rice ball with tomato sauce and mozzarella) and mozzarella in carrozza ( a fried sandwich filled with mozzarella)

We also had a nice and fresh beer. Today the weather was warm and sunny so we enjoyed our aperitivo outside 🔝

We are well fed and happy now... Maybe we will skip the dinner??? MAYBE 🤔

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08/03/2023

Happy International Women Day!🌼 Did you know that the symbolic women's day flower in Italy is the Mimosa? It's a beautiful fluffy yellow flower blooming exclusively at the end of February/first weeks of March. It's a tradition to gift mimosa to the women on Women's day! In our pic you can see the little pieces of art made by M&E kids at school today 🥰

Foody fact: Italians love food... so why don't make a traditional cake inspired to the traditional Mimosa flower? Mimosa is also the symbolic cake made to celebrate the women on their day! It's a soft delicious sponge with Chantilly cream in the middle, covered with the fluffy crumbled sponge!!!! We have mini and regular Mimosa cakes 🍰 Today we treated ourselves with 2 mini Mimosa cakes, one with chocolate chips on top and the other with strawberries!!!! Soooo good 💛

26/02/2023

The weather was not the best today, cloudy and rainy... What would you do if you were a local? Well we treated ourselves with a lovely meal out! Parmigiana pizza is one of the E favourite pizza ( made with aubergines), beer was fresh and nice, supplì was M choice (cacio & Pepe = cheese & black pepper). What can we say???? More than satisfied 😉 Are you a pizza person? Because we are!!!! 🤩

21/02/2023

Do you know how Italians celebrate the Shrove Tuesday? Today is Martedí Grasso, last day of Carnevale! Carnevale is one of the funniest and craziest festivals here, parties and parades are running all over the country! Carnevale is amazing for kids. They can wear their favourite costumes! Italian streets are covered with Coriandoli (Confetti in English). You can buy frappe in the bakeries or make them at home! I said Frappe because I’m from Rome but they are also called Crostoli, Galani, Strufoli… depends on which county you are! In our pic there are different frappe, could be fried or oven baked, dipped in pistachio cream, chocolate or white chocolate! Delicious and crunchy 😊

We are sure you have seen the Venetian mask once in your life. Have you ever been to a Carnival Parade in Italy? Tried Frappe? Share your experience with us 😉

15/02/2023

Ciao! Ready for something new and cool?!? It's been a long time, lots of changes in M&E life but always with the passion for food :) We won't prepare your meals this time... we will share ours , our culture and best places with you. Big news: we're back to Italy! ⚠️WORK IN PROGRESS, stay tuned 😊

09/07/2022

29/05/2022

Thank you to Rose and Oumar for having used M&E catering for their little man birthday party 🥳💙

Hope you enjoyed our food and our cupcakes ( also if you had a Smurf's tongue after eating them 😁).

And happy birthday again to your amazing boy! 🎈🎂

25/05/2022

M&E coffee is ready for our Tiramisù!!! I love the smell of coffee in M&E house 🥰 We make it everyday with our Italian Caffettiera Moka. It has been invented by Mr Bialetti and you can recognise its famous logo: a man with moustache 🥸 The majority of Italians have a caffettiera Moka at home, filled with grounded coffee. You can also buy coffee at the 'Torrefazione', proper shops where coffee beans are grounded fresh and sold! There is a rule for your caffettiera, NEVER wash it with soap!!! Clean it with plenty of running water and that's ready for your next coffee!!!! Have a nice one ☺️

19/05/2022

Thursday is... Gnocchi day!

In Italy we say that! Or maybe in Rome?!?! We are not sure... Btw we have had a delicious lunch with 3 different gnocchi sauces!

- Bolognese Gnocchi
- Mushrooms, Italian sausages and cream Gnocchi
- Pesto, Mascarpone and cherry tomatoes Gnocchi

Do you like them? What's your favourite?

Maybe they will be on Deliveroo soon ;)

Buon appetito 😉