After a lot of courgette flowers I finally discover the first courgette creature. The outside is pale green and the shape is similar to a butternut pumpkin. Total weight is 700 grams, without central part with seeds, 600 grams. Strange that I didn’t notice this before. I spray my little vegetable garden every day. 😉 … More Impressive harvest
A quiche as a solitary dish for 2p can be too much but is a perfect lunch for the following day, or if you are both really hungry, can be finished. Puff pastry is probably the most elegant dough for a quiche. Prebaking is always better to guarantee a cripsy bottom. Instead of using dried … More Good looking quiche
Lovely sausages are waiting in the fridge for a respectful recipe but my personal condition is a ‘all-in one’ dish for 2p. Cut the sausages in smaller parts. Bake in a tiny little bit of olive oil (the sausages contain enough fat). Chop and add 4 garlic cloves, 3 spring onions, 1 bell pepper, 1 … More Mishmash
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
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