Autumn holiday in Belgium is an ideal moment to open the house for visitors. Day 1, Lisbet, my oldest daughter, arrives in Florence. After a little walk in Certaldo, small and beautiful, 250 grams of fresh pasta dough awaits being transformed into ‘ravioli alla mozzarella and artichokes’. Clean 4 smaller artichokes. Fry 2 chopped garlic … More Certain food is made to show people how much you love them
Tandoori chicken is probably one of the best known Indian dishes which we will never be able to prepare in the same way as they do in India : the combination of the real tandoori oven and the exact mixture of herbs. Let’s try! Chop a chicken in different parts. Use the breast parts and … More Vikram and Puneet, Indian food in an Italian kitchen by a Belgian 😉 Not quite, but…
Pork meat and squid in one salad…delicious Thailand Slice 150 grams of lean pork and 300 grams of clean squid thinly. Chop and grind 3 cm of fresh ginger, 4 garlic cloves, 1 spicy little pepper (or more), 1 white onion, and salt. Bake this rough pasta in an oiled hot wok. Add first the … More Yam wun sen, a delicious noodle salad
Square puff pastry covered with a mixture of new Philadelphia, ‘active’, with even less kcal than the light one (92 kcal for 100 grams) with 4 chopped garlic cloves, pepper and salt. Cover with 1 big sliced red onion, 150 grams of smoked salmon. Finish with a few halved cherry tomatoes (I ovendried them for … More One more day to go before I make my new shopping list…woop woop
Chop a few carots, 1 onion, 4 garlic cloves,1 spicy pepper in tiny pieces (brunoise). Put in the microwave for 4 mins. Add 150 grams of peas, 150 grams of crumbled feta cheese, and 1 table spoon of baharat (mixture of herbs), pepper and salt. Spread this mixture on filo dough and make a few … More Empanada – lookalikes with a fresh salad
Leftovers of risotto can be used in the most delicious Sicilian appetizer or lunch even, arancini, or can be transformed in a frittata, but never the following day (my personal opinion). So, store the leftover ( of course in a certain amount) in the freezer and defrost on time for the frittata. Remember the pumpkin … More In between visitors, time for two and moment to recycle 😉
Roasted vegetables are fashionable and this is not undeserved , they are delicious. The oven time to roast a whole celeriac in the oven is approximately 3h, so economically not so great. My easy solution? Wash the celeriac thoroughly and remove the roots. Halve in two equal parts. Spread some olive oil on top, some … More Celeriac in the oven
BRUSCHETTA with porcini mushrooms Use slices of old bread. Brush some olive oil on both sides. I put some finely chopped garlic in the olve oil for extra flavor. Clean 500 grams of fresh porcini (use no water, brush them). Fry 2 chopped garlic cloves, 1 spicy little pepper in some olive oil. Add the … More Porcini and truffle after a trip to Assisi and Perugia
As starter ARTICHOKE SALAD in a PARMIGIANO BASKET For 4p clean 8 smaller artichokes (they have no hair) and put the softer central part in water with juice of 1 lemon. Store the artichokes in the fridge (this can easily be done the day before). Remove the artichokes out of the water and dry them. … More Really in love with Italian sausages 😉
FENNEL CARPACCIO Slice 2 small fennels with the mandoline. Spread the fennel on 4 plates. Mix the juice of 1-2 oranges with 4 table spoons of olive oil, pepper and salt. Spread the dressing on the fennel. Finish with 4 table spoons of grinded roasted pine nuts and the zeste of the oranges (wash them … More Dinner for friends after a whole day of sight seeing
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