Now and again I enjoy eating alone. Often this dinner is a mixture of cooking for myself and the following day and eating at the same time. The dinner tonight is, of course, an oven dish. Put 500 grams of chopped courgettes, 2 sliced garlic cloves, 1/2 table spoon of dried basil, pepper and salt … More Dinner with myself
My final harvest of pumpkin/courgette is collected : 3 baby creatures, cute but not enough for our daily vegetable quotum. I hope they don’t mind to be served in the company of a half green cabbage and a half with cabbage, both waiting for another recipe. It’s rather boring, but, prepare a baking tray with … More Green green green
My love for courgettes is endless. With this side dish, inspired by Arvid Schmidt in delicious magazine of august 2018, I’ll convince you that courgettes is one of the most amazing vegetables ever. Halve 600 grams of medium sized young courgettes. Put them in an oven dish with a drizzle of olive oil. Bake in … More What a great side dish
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!
Squacquerone, stracchino, crescenza are all white, fresh cheeses based on cows milk. Their nutritional value and kcal (lower than normal cheese) is similar. The main difference is their origin. Scqaucquerone is from Emilia Romania as the parmigiano, stracchino is from Lombardia as the gorgonzola, and crescenza is from the province Lodi e Crema and is … More Frittata con squacquerone, zucchine, pinoli e olive
Risotto can be really rich and heavy. It’s is not so difficult to make a lighter version if you use less butter, less cheese and more vegetables. Heat 350 ml of water. Add some ready made vegetable stock powder. Heat 1 teaspoon of butter and the same amount of olive oil. Chop and fry 1 … More Light risotto
The less I try, the better it grows! I’m more and more convinced that ‘real gardening’ is not my thing. Although it must be awesome to go to your kitchen garden and collect what you want to prepare. For 2p chop and fry 300 grams of chicken filet in a drizzle of sunflower oil. Remove … More Coriander harvest
Gerda and Herman leave tomorrow. Yesterday we enjoyed a lovely dinner in the city. Today I hope to serve them a nice meal as closure of a pleasant week together. Buy a fresh big whole sea bass (for 4p approx 1.5 kilo) without intestins. Slice 1 kilo of courgettes and 1 kilo of potatoes thinly. … More Fish day
For 2p, 2 tagliatelle-sliced courgettes, shortly baked in a drizzle of good olive oil with 2 chopped garlic cloves, some dried thyme (fresh would be better), pepper, salt and served with 1 small burrata is a fabulous, healthy and super easy appetizer or lunch. No burrata? Buffalo mozzarella is a perfect alternative. Yummie!
We find special brown paper roast bags in the supermarket. Put a small biological chicken (still too much for 3p, but anyway), seasoned with pepper, salt and some curry powder (found in the cupboards) in a brown bag. For safety reasons, use another bag and some aluminium foil to protect the oven. Put 400 grams … More New York! Dinner 3 : Broadway musical and Japanese food, dinner 4 : Chicken in a bag!
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