For 8 larger, or 13 smaller portions you need : 1 can of cherry tomatoes, 1 small onion, 2 garlic cloves, 50 grams of grated parmigiano, 250 grams of mascarpone, 2 eggs, 8 grissini, 100 grams of green pesto, a few fresh leaves of basil. Prepare the tomato juice in advance. Fry the chopped garlic, … More Savory tiramisu
The variety of pesto recipes is incredible. The absolute must for traditional pesto is : a bunch of fresh basil, a handful of pine nuts, 1-2 garlic cloves, a few table spoons of parmigiano and olive oil. Don’t make the pesto too salty (like ready- made- ones are). Against the holy rule, save your handpower … More The lovely smell of fresh basil
Start with the potatoes. Make the incisions (hasselback technique). Put the potatoes in a oven dish. Add some salt and oil. Bake in the oven at 180° for approx 45-60 mins (depends on the size of the potatoes). Clean the fish and fill with some onion, fresh basil and lemon. Add pepper and salt. Half … More Mackerel, hasselback potatoes and oven baked tomatoes, pure and simple.
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
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!
Tonight we go for easy and we will eat while watching a movie. It’s allowed, it’s Saturday. Boil 500 grams of gnocchi. Keep 1 cup of the boiling water. Fry 4 garlic cloves in some olive oil. Add 200 grams of fresh spinach. Bake shortly. Mix the boiling water with the spinach and add a … More Lazy Saturday, easy dinner and movie
I am ready for long evenings outside, and so is our terrace. But maybe 9° is still a bit too chilly… Anyway I probably used muscles which I didn’t train yet, and I feel it, and tomorrow I am sure, even more. The menu of today respects my sore body. Slice 600 grams of courgettes … More Painful gardening, easy recipe 😉
Many thanks to the kitchen robot! Put 300 grams of boiled potatoes and 400 gram of white fish (no fish bones, and dried), a handful of fresh herbs (mix of parsley and basil), 2 garlic cloves, 1 slice of older bread, 3 pickled anchovies in the blender. Add 1 egg and zeste of 1 lemon. … More Finally, fish cakes!
After a day chasing from one place to another, to another, to another hoping to obtain an Italian number plate, we will have an easy dish tonight. Cook rice or noodles. Heat a drizzle of peanut oil in a wok. Fry 4 chopped garlic cloves, 5 cm of chopped ginger, 1 chopped spicy little pepper. … More Italian bureaucracy, what an adventure 
Mozzarella, tomato, aubergine and basil are probably the most known ingredients of the italian cuisine. Put them all together in a dish and you will end up with the delicious parmigiana di melanzane. Cut the aubergines (2 for 4p) in slices of 1 cm, put them in a colander and add salt on every … More Italian classics, Parmigiana di melanzane
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