Following her hugely popular RTE TV series, ʿCatherine's Italian Kitchenʾ, and her latest show, ʿCatherine's Roman Holidayʾ, Catherine Fulvio presents her personal collection of recipes to brighten up Irish kitchens with delicious flavours of Italy. This wonderful selection of vibrant recipes, influenced by Catherine's long summers spent at her home in Sicily, have been gathered from Italian friends and her husband's family in Sicily and Rome, and perfected at her Wicklow cookery school. With over 100 dishes for all levels of cooks, including familiar recipes with a twist - pizzas, pastas and risotto - as well as the unfamiliar - homemade limoncello, a traditional lemon liqueur, or Stromboli, a mouth-watering bread filled with mozzarella and pancetta, from the volcanic island off the coast of Sicily. So, expect the passion of Sicilian cooking, the heartiness of Roman fare, along with tasty treats from Tuscany, Naples and Venice. Catherine's infectious enthusiasm for food pervades every recipe as she leads you through your Italian cooking experience. Featuring photography of spectacular Sicilian and Roman scenery taken from the TV series, this is truly Italian food for an Irish kitchen. Buon Appetito!

Catherine Fulvio cooks at home, and shows you how! Over 100 recipes, including all those seen on her 8-part RTÉ autumn series in 2011, take you through the full range of home cooking possibilities. Just a few samples: STARTERS Thai Crab Croquettes/Mushroom & Thyme Risotto Cakes BAKING Brown Bread/Soda Bread/Scones SPEEDY SUPPERS Beef Stir Fry/Spanish Chicken MEAT & FISH Duck with Spiced Plums/Haddock Portuguese VEG & SPUDS Cheesy Courgette Bake/Herby Champ DESSERTS Mocha Crème Brulée/Sticky Guinness Pudding And throughout the book, Catherine stresses the Power of Five, for example 5 Store Cupboard essentials 5 Ways with White Soda Bread 5 Sauces for Meat & Fish 5 Ways with Bolognese Sauce 5 ways with Salad Dressing This is Catherine Fulvio in full flow: practical, geared to our busy modern lives - and truly delicious. We can all cook like this.

Catherine Fulvio returns to her favourite food as she celebrates the best of Italian baking.

Kitchen Confidence is packed with Catherine’s personal selection of recipes, based around what her family enjoys and the dishes she keeps coming back to time after time. Every recipe is accompanied by a full colour photo (which she styled and snapped whilst making her impatient family wait to eat!) as well as including note pages which contain beautiful illustrations by Harry Stone. From breakfast to dinner and dessert, within the pages of Kitchen Confidence, you’ll find loads of ideas that will tickle your taste buds and maybe inspire you to turn the occasional date with the oven into a full-blown culinary affair with your kitchen! Each recipe is straightforward, with a guide as to how long it will take, what ingredients you could substitute and sometimes even a little bit of history. There’s a guide to useful store cupboard ingredients, equipment you might want to invest in and some tips and techniques for success in the kitchen. So whisks at the ready as you keep calm and curry on and discover a new-found confidence in the kitchen!

Catherine Fulvio combines modern Irish food with farm-to-fork principles. She takes on traditional recipes and gives them her own twist to reflect the abundance of ingredients available on her family farm. Catherine is a regular guest on The Today Show. Recipes include classic familydishes and more such as Beefand Stout Pies with Potato PastryTopping, Lamb Wellington withWild Garlic, Farmhouse Soups withSoda Bread Catherine's To Die For'Lemon Meringue Pie

Italians refuse to compromise when it comes to food. They eat with the regions and seasons, and the respect the importance of mealtimes: work, family, life all resolve round food. Fulvio shows you how to celebrate all that is great about Italian food and food culture in this collection of new recipes for the good life.

A long-awaited second cookbook from celebrated architectural designer John Pawson and his wife Catherine