Courgettes are so great in combination with fish and meat, but are even great just by themselves. The variety of recipes is incredible. If you use the flowers you need real fresh ones. Make a tempura dough with 2 table spoons of flour, 2 table spoons of sparkling water or beer and 1 battered egg. … More An adorable ingredient
For 2p 600 grams of different shapes, different colors of small tomatoes. Halve them or cut in different sizes. Add mozzarellini (small mozzarella balls). Add some pistache nuts. Boil 600 grams of small potatoes in salted water al dente. Cool down and halve them. Mix the tomatoes, mozzarella, potatoes, nuts with loads of fresh basil … More 7.30 pm and still 25° outside, maxi version of a caprese salad
Tuscan sauce is a typical slow cooking recipe. Make a bigger amount and freeze some portions for later. Chop 2 carrots, 2 onions, 3 stems of celery, 6 garlic cloves. Fry in some olive oil (the real Tuscan recipe will tell you to add 1 slice of chopped pancetta ). Add 700 grams of minced … More Polenta with Tuscan sauce
I love eating outside, especially in the evening when the moon and stars lighten your plate in a mysterious way (that will not happen if you eat between 18 and 20 pm, of course ;-)). Although dinner time in Tuscany is not so extremely late, we always had very late evening meals, and still have … More Lovely summer evenings!!
For 2p cut a fennel. Do you know that the female (with the real hips) fennel has a sweeter taste than the male (longer shaped and slim hips)? No idea whether there are also ‘in-betweens’ with the most delicate taste??? Anyway, chop a female fennel, 1 onion, 4 garlic cloves and 1 spicy little pepper. … More In love with fregola!
Something traditional today , chicken, mushroom-green pepper sauce and baked potatoes. I usually buy a big chicken, so that I can decide how to use the different parts. Usually the legs are ideal to bake in the oven, the chicken breast makes another portion for 2. The bones and the rest of the meat are … More Tradition to keep
We adore squid, but this recipe can easily be done with any other fish, as long as it’s a firm fish. Cut 300 grams of courgettes, 1 big red bell pepper. Fry 1 chopped onion and 4 chopped garlic cloves in some olive oil. Bake 1 table spoon of curry powder while stirring. Add the … More Why not? Delicious and fresh squid with a curry sauce
Spoiled as we are, we have a private Italian class twice a week with Giancarla to guide us through the Italian grammar, Italian vocabulary, and culture. We are her ‘bambini’ and often she is also our moral support. My pick of the day cannot be too extreme, fusion between Italy and the Middle-East. biggest fan … More It’s about time to invite our adorable Italian teacher, Giancarla
Find 1 untreated lemon, a real one with thick skin (Amalfis are superb). Remove the ends and cut in 4 slices of 1 ½ cm. Remove the lemon meat. If you buy the lemon try to add some leaves of the lemon, they give extra taste. Put the slices on baking paper (and/or on the … More The most perfect appetizer, many thanks to Jamie Oliver
The cuisine in Sardegna is originally a cuisine with cheese and meat, and not at all fish as ingredient. However, with a beautiful sea view fresh fish or a dish with the local bottarga, from tuna or mullet sounds great. Sardegna has a typical pasta, malloreddus (a rather small shape, looking like a larva) and … More A week of holiday in Sardegna, let’s explore the typical cuisine of the island
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