You know, or perhaps you don’t (and then you are lucky) hospital food is often awful. White cabbage is partly responsible for this statement. A new era for white cabbage has started, since today! Cut a whole white cabbage of 1 kilo in slices of 1.5-2cm. Put the slices on baking paper on an oven … More I knew it would be awesome
Still to many fresh ingredients in the fridge, so no need to discuss the menu, pizza today!! A ready made rectangular pizza with spinach, ricotta, almond flakes and fresh salmon filet is no ‘second hand’ menu, but the ingredients which I can still find in the fridge. Chop and fry 4 garlic cloves, 1 red … More My turn, pizza with ‘fridge’
500 grams of mushrooms…pizza or pasta? Iris… pasta. Chop and fry 4 spring onions, 4 garlic cloves, 1 chili pepper in a mixture of butter and olive oil. Add the chopped mushrooms and 1 tea spoon of dried basil. Bake. Boil some pasta. Mix pasta with mushrooms. Finish with grated pecorino and fresh basil. Done!
Trip to airport, back home and nobody else to cook for tonight. Dinner with me and myself! Cut a small cauliflower in little roses. Add a lost courgette. Chop 2 garlic cloves. Put everything on baking paper. Add 1 table spoon of curry powder, 1 teaspoon of dried thyme, pepper and salt. Bake in the … More Empty house, cooking for one
The vibe of Siena by night remains magic. No cooking tonight, but enjoying local dishes outside while watching tourists and locals doing the same.
A lot of visitors are ‘afraid’ of squid. I always try to convince them to try it, just once. The sea is changing, due to the climatogical changes, and thus squid in general is moving towards more Northern countries. A real octopus with large tentacles is probably to shocking as first ‘contact with the squid … More Just try it, grilled squid!
I know, tomato is one of the more or most genetically manipulated fruit/vegetables, but still, since I was a child, one of my most loved ingredients. I remember hot summer evenings that eating raw sunriped tomato like an apple in the late evening sun! My respect has never faded, although I’m so glad that sunriped … More Tomato risotto and my beloved Italian sausages
We start with a breakfast outside looking at Siena, could be worse ;-). After a lazy morning in the garden and stormy weather we decide to take the car to take a look at our future home, in Castelnuovo Berardenga and to come back by the Crete Senese. For our evening meal for 3p, I … More Soft Indian cooking
Dorianne, 25 years old, one of the daughters of my sister who died suddenly in 2005, is visiting us for a few days. A week to share beautiful memories and to be grateful being the aunt of three wonderful ladies! Six days is short, but enough to absorb the vibe of Tuscany. So we will … More Young visitor, or just younger 😉
From the moment of arrival, the delicious magazine is always a superb source of new cooking ideas. As you know we live in Italy and the only foreign magazine which arrives in our mail is my beloved Delicious. With a few days of delay, sometimes even more (italian speed is sometimes piano pianissimo ;-)) but … More Quick puff pastry with eggplant and garlic
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