Sometimes I really try hard to prepare some traditional food combinations. Puree is an ideal way to put loads of vegetables in a rather invisible way in one meal. Remove the skin of 400 grams of potatoes and chop them in cubes. Clean 1 kg of broccoli and chop in smaller pieces. Boil a large … More Puree and meatballs, even if you still have teeth 😉
Yesterday we spent a lovely day outside in our wild garden. The weather forecast isn’t really promising for the following period. Anyway, the ideal circumstances for an appropriate dish ( it wasn’t really my first choice but now it feels right) : mushroom risotto. Chop and fry 4 garlic cloves, 1 white onion and 1 … More 1st of May, feels more like the start of autumn 😨
Could it be that every region in Italy has its own recipes for a simple pasta with tomatoes? This one pretends to be originally from Sorrento. Instead of using fresh cherry tomatoes, I used canned tomatoes. Chop and fry 4 garlic cloves and 1 chili in a drizzle of olive oil. Add 2 cans of … More Simple pasta recipe
The Amalfi Coast is awesome. Mozzarella and lemon are two important ingredients. This delicious appetizer, a variation on the recipe of Jamie Oliver, is such a fantastic combination of those two protagonists. Buy a medium sized Amalfi lemon ( they can be as big as a melon). Walk along the coastline and take 4 fresh … More What a beautiful area in Italy
Clean 1 small celery ( 800 grams +/-). Chop in cubes and put on baking paper. Clean 1 sweet potato ( 600 grams ). Chop in cubes and put on baking paper. Clean 300 grams of carrots. Chop and put on the same oven tray on the baking paper. Add a good drizzle of olive … More Celery and sweet potato, I hope they can ease the muscular pains due to all those stairs up and down, down and up😎
We love to travel and stay in appartments mainly to have more freedom and to have a kitchen. Lunch outside, dinner inside our temporarily home is our ideal formula. Dinner outside is for sure optional if we are sure to eat in a special way. An appartment with oven is ideal. Coming home after hiking … More Wherever you travel and you plan to cook your own meal now and again, take some baking paper with you😂
We stay 1 week in Ravello. The weather is not ideal, but we have a practical appartment with a decent oven. The grocery shops are small, thus there is enough to prepare us a proper and simple dinner. Chop 750 grams of eggplant in cubes of approximately 2 cm. Put on the oven tray and … More All in one
A bouquet of 5 purple baby artichokes is waiting for an elegant recipe. Remove all three hard outside leaves and the stems. Chop of the top of the artichokes. Slice each one in stripes of approx 0.5 cm. Put immediately in a bowl with water and the juice of 1 lemon until it’s time to … More Artichokes in an overdose before the end of the season
We arrived in Ravello, a central location to visit the Amalfi Coast. We ordered pizza although there were ingredients enough to cook a decent meal. Tomorrow, Easter Sunday, we will start exploring ( and not go to church ). Happy Easter 😚
Fighting with long grass, packing for our trip to the Amalfi Coast, running on the treadmill….what a great Friday. No way that I will be able to empty our fridge tonight, but part of the fridge will travel with us to our ‘home’ in Ravello. Chop 1 large yellow bell pepper (400 grams ), 400 … More After a day of physical activity
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