After a week of staycation Iris is back on track. I’ll try to focus on healthy lunch breaks ( and keep on focusing on our candlelight dinners. My favorite lunch has always been salads, but I know Iris loves soups, not only in winter. While using the oven for our dinner, an extra tray before, … More A bowl of soup as lunch
Purple potatoes, red onion, sage and taleggio on a whole wheat puff pastry is not only beautiful but also delicious. It’s the first time that I discovered whole wheat puff pastry, it’s meant to be covered with warm colors 😉. Wash and slice 400 grams of purple potatoes thinly. Slice 1red onion and 4 garlic … More Purple
The first real cold has arrived, although still sunny and also really windy. After a walk with Oskar, we are ready for warm tea and an upside down pear almond cake. Remove the skin and seeds of 5 little pears. Slice and mix with the juice of 1/2 lemon and the leaves of a few … More Warm and cosy
Pasta carbonara is the best comfort food ever, but, even with a salad as side dish, you will never reach a considerable amount of vegetables. Thanks to one of my daughters, Lisbet, I can recommend this version. For 2p, 300 grams of cauliflower and 1 big leek (400 grams) are a perfect amount of vegetables … More Pasta carbonara
It’s Wednesday. I’m preparing my shopping list and inspecting the fridge. The market in Castelnuovo Berardenga will still allow the food stalls, what a great news.What’s left in the fridge : the central part of a green cabbage ( good for 350 grams of vegetables), a few spring onions and 6 large cherry tomatoes. I … More Empty your fridge recipe
Donna Hay has a new book ‘everyday fresh’. Thanks to delicious.nl I get the vibe and inspiration to prepare vegetables in another surprising way. When I was a child I hated white cabbage, the texture, the smell and the boring combination with bechamel sauce. Gradually I discovered other combinations which made this cheap and healthy … More Super fresh, super easy
Dorothy lives in Vermont, loves to cook and has a world press blog, like me. Her blog post are like columns. I stole the idea for this recipe from Dorothy.Remove 700 grams of frozen forest fruit from the freezer. Defrost partially and remove some of the liquid. Spread in a buttered cake form. Mix with … More Dorothy’s New Vintage Kitchen
Italy has new restrictions. We can’t leave our village unless we have a really good reason. This morning I still could go to the market. Tomorrow…probably more restrictions. I hope that all those lovely cultivated vegetables and fruit will find a nice stomach. Tonight we’ll have some pasta with baby artichokes, mussels and scampi. Clean … More Almost lockdown…
Extremely sunny weather in November, it gives you energy to cope with this surrealistic 2020, the year in which the whole world is influenced by Covid19 and the awesome news of the presidential election in US.My sister in law, Sofie, as my eldest daughter, Lisbet, decide to decorate their houses in Christmas atmosphere, as other … More Something spectacular something healthy
I saw this recipe of a cheesecake marbled with chocolate in the cooking magazine of the Coop supermarket. I didn’t reduce the amounts of sugar, nor butter this time, I only substituted the fresh cheese with fresh cheese, low fat Greek yogurt and ricotta and added a drizzle of lemon juice and lemon zeste for … More A special dessert
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