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Forum: Italy
Dec 9th 2022, 9:31 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Double helpings as well - yummy! Have to say not a big fan of any pickled stuff... But sprouts with dolcelatte and chilly Mmmm...:thumbup:
Forum: Italy
Mar 4th 2022, 4:12 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

We are here in the Uk and my brother told me it was Italian week , but they had little of it.... I wonder if this is a case of supply issues throughout. We are finding lots of our normal food stuff...
Forum: Italy
Jan 13th 2022, 9:38 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Ha! When there we had to resort to the British Corner Shop for our daily fix. Currently a 500gr jar is a whopping £7.39 (3 or more £7.17) plus delivery charges. At the time they had an offer of free...
Forum: Italy
Nov 3rd 2021, 1:15 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Must be a taste bud thing Lorna, your must be too good, what with sprouts AND marmite! Mind you I didn't start liking marmite until I was in my 30s...
Forum: Italy
Nov 2nd 2021, 12:24 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

The only thing we really struggled to do without was marmite, hence we know about the British Corner Shop, just had a look and "Heinz Baked Beans 4 Pack" is £3.99 (£3.87 3+). No doubt delivery is...
Forum: Italy
Nov 1st 2021, 3:30 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

I would make your own, cannelloni or haricot beans. Heat a little olive oil add herbs, spice of choice add a bit passata stirring all the time util you have the amount you prefer for your beans, then...
Forum: Italy
Feb 17th 2021, 3:58 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Sounds like you don't need any for quite a while....:lol:
Forum: Italy
Dec 18th 2020, 1:02 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

The sage plant will take no time at all to grow, your problem will be keeping it under control! We brought back a rooting for our daughter here in the UK and when we came back took a cutting from...
Forum: Italy
Dec 17th 2020, 9:12 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Coriander prefers the cold, I would look at planting late in the year. The best we ever had was planted late summer/autumn and after coming back from England in January to 10cm of snow over it we had...
Forum: Italy
Dec 16th 2020, 11:13 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

I would certainly grow them if we were still there, friends have tried parsnips with mixed success. We also grew carrots which were great one year and a total failure the next. Experimentation is...
Forum: Italy
Dec 12th 2020, 10:20 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Not a patch on the DWP and HMRC or in fact any of HMG quangos...
Forum: Italy
Dec 12th 2020, 8:54 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

How nice.... Here in the UK you probably get mugged for Christmas at 70+
Forum: Italy
Oct 24th 2020, 10:38 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

I think Brian is right, it's down to taste in answer to the OPs question on recipes. There are the obvious Lorna mentioned, but there will be others on the web. In Italy I've seen sausage, I assume...
Forum: Italy
Apr 30th 2019, 4:39 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

It takes a while to change eating habits and a lot of effort trying different things - "piano, piano" Oh, and don't let them see what you put in it! If they could see what went into Heinz they may...
Forum: Italy
Apr 30th 2019, 9:52 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

I would keep trying the cannellini, but different ingredients, perhaps a few herbs such as basil (best fresh) or what's in season, oregano should be around now and sage. If you like chilli I can...
Forum: Italy
Oct 4th 2017, 10:44 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Check if your area has one here on their site (https://cliccaevai.esselunga.it/ecommerce/nav/drive/index.html). Looks like they even do on-line shopping!
Forum: Italy
May 9th 2017, 8:31 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

:ohmy: were they ever any good..?
Forum: Italy
Mar 14th 2017, 9:26 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

They grow carrots here, so no reason you can't grow parsnips. Problem we've found is with carrots (same requirement as parsnip) our soil is far too heavy, although we did find a short fat variety of...
Forum: Italy
Mar 7th 2017, 10:35 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

I'm not too sure there are any varieties of datterino. I have to admit I give up on growing from seed mainly because the plants here were so cheap. Last year they were selling both yellow and black...
Forum: Italy
Mar 7th 2017, 8:34 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Everyone here seems to grow Pera, they often call them abruzzesi pomodoro, but I don’t think they are much different from any of the other big toms. Those Costoluto di Firenze (if the same as ...
Forum: Italy
Mar 6th 2017, 6:53 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Perhaps we need a growing thread ... Interesting growing on black plastic as a lot of major growers here do the same for various crops. Never heard of Roma VF, but looking them up they look the equiv...
Forum: Italy
Mar 6th 2017, 8:39 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Friends of ours have a patch of this outside of their house, if we did not grow our own cultivated asparagus I would have thought it was a fern of some kind as it had "flowered". Doubt if we would...
Forum: Italy
Mar 5th 2017, 8:26 am
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Thank you Pica, I guess we will give it a go in bits and eat it a few different ways. As you say it's big enough!
Forum: Italy
Mar 4th 2017, 2:29 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

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By the way this is one (not the best example) of the white large carrot type vegetable the local grocer has on sale. The lovely lady there did tell me what it was, but I’m sure it was the...
Forum: Italy
Mar 4th 2017, 2:22 pm
Replies: 1,429
Views: 260,855
Posted By Geordieborn

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

Just looked them up! Have heard of them, but not come across them. A few results indicate they are the same thing, but one actually says the Italians would not distinguish the two, but it's a...
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