"Pizza dough is easy to make; it simply needs a little time to rise" (David Herbert) When I see the pizza dough rise well, doubling in size, I feel quietly pleased. Using a favourite pizza base recipe from English cook David Herbert’s fabulous book “Complete Perfect Recipes”, (Penguin Australia 2007), along with a couple of  hints from other pizza makers I enjoy making pizzas from scratch.

  Barefoot on tiled Madonie stone floors To step barefoot onto the large slabs of grey Sicilian stone on the floors of the bathrooms of Palazzo Notar Nicchi, the home of The Sicilian House in Polizzi Generosa, is to feel the coolness and smoothness of stone taken from the depths of the Madonie Mountains.