My kitchen is small but over-full with material. A lot of the tools are exposed to the air and need a wash before use. The cataplana hasn’t been used for a while and is not essential but ideal for this recipe. Two guests left us today and one of my daughters is still around. For … More A fish curry in a Portugese cataplana
For 4p buy 4 small round courgettes. Remove gently the inside from the courgettes. Put in the blender with 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 spicy little pepper, a few sage leaves, 100 grams of feta cheese. Blend. Taste and add pepper and salt. Fill the courgettes and put in a oven dish. Finish with grated … More Chubby courgettes as a first course
I discover some fresh pasta made of farro flour and will give it a try. Spelt is a nice alternative and is a healthy ingredient. If the fresh version is tasty I can try it myself for another occasion. Today filled squid, vongole in a tomato sauce with spelt pasta. For the filling soak 1 … More Farro or spelt pasta
Musky octopus or moscardini in Italian are often cheaper than the traditional calamari and really tasty. They are not difficult to clean, but it’s a smelly mess in your rubbish bin, so I prefer to buy them ‘cleaned’ and prepare the same day. Marinate the octopus with lemon zeste, garlic, olive oil, pepper and salt. … More Fresh moscardini
Cavolo nero is real local and the base of the well known ribollita. Cook 200 grams of chopped cavolo nero(remove the real hard parts) for 10 mins in salted water. Drain carefully and cool down. Put the cavolo nero in the blender with 200 grams of ricotta, 50 grams of grated pecorino or parmigiano, 1 … More Gnocchi nudi o ravioli nudi?
Cannelloni of courgettes filled with ricotta…Donna Hay, grazie mille! Delicious magazine and Donna Hay show us a few pages of the last cookbook ‘Brilliance kids’. A main dish becomes a starter in my case, and we skip the mozzarella (to skip some kcal). For a starter for 3-4p I use 100 grams of frozen (fresh … More There we go again : courgettes
Gerda, my mother in law, probably worried my inspiration will be gone soon ;-), collected a lot of recipes for me. This eggplant recipe which she found in the magazine ‘Body talk’ as starter, is a perfect main dish in a larger portion. I make a ‘docV version’. For 4p 1,2 kilo of eggplant is … More Eggplant soufflé
Slice 500 grams of small courgettes with a potato peeler, or spiralizer. Mix with the juice of 1 lemon, a drizzle of olive oil, 2 table spoons of chopped chives, some roasted pine nuts and pepper. Spread 100 grams of smoked salmon. Ready!!
How to create the most colorful all-in-one dish ever? Chop 1 big or 3 small eggplants in cubes. Put in a colander with salt and leave for at least 1h. Chop 1 large or 2 smaller bell peppers (yellow for extra color). Mix with 1 chopped red onion, 1 spicy little pepper, 4 chopped garlic … More Ratatouille ‘Italian style’
Italians cannot survive without pasta. The choice of whole grain pasta is gradually becoming more extensive. For 3p, chop and fry 500 grams of fresh onion and 4 garlic gloves in some olive oil. Add 100 ml of white wine. Allow the wine to evaporate. Add some water and 8 anchovies filets of good quality. … More Pure Italian food
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