In Italy there is no door to door household waste collection. You bring everything to nearby containers. We rent an appartment with a nice garden. So after a few weeks I decided to collect the organic waste (limited to raw fruit and vegetable waste, egg shells and garden waste). Although we have cats I didn’t … More Pumpkin flowers
Is there a better way to guarantee a healthy meal than use the oven and mix all ingredients together? It saves you time, offers loads of possibilities and above all there is hardly any after-work. For 2p, 500 potatoes, 1 large bell pepper, 4 large carrots, 2 apples, 1 large red onion, 4 garlic cloves … More All-in one dish
No offence intended, of course, I even try to participate by cooking a traditional Belgian dinner during an important game ;-). Italian mussles are not the same as Belgian or Dutch mussles, and often they are sold together with vongole. Clean the shells. Slice 4 large fresh onions and 4 garlic cloves. Bake the onions … More I will never stop wondering about what soccer can do to people
Cooking without garlic is almost exceptional. For a garlic puree I use half of a bulb. Boil 500 grams of potatoes for 2p. Put a bay leaf in the water and a pinch of salt. For the best ‘garlic’ flavor put the garlic in some aluminium foil with a bit of olive oil. Bake at … More Garlic puree
We seem to have a real ‘cheesy week’. Mozzarella is waiting to be consumed. Avocado, baby spinach, cucumber, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes is surely a colorful combination. For 2p peel 500 grams of sweet potatoes. Cut in pieces of 1- 1 ½ cm thick. Mix the potatoes with 1 table spoon of garam masala, 3 … More One more salad before a refill of the fridge
Okay, I understand, to create a pinsa (look on my instagram account or wait until I’ll really prepare one) you need at least 24 h. There goes my menu of tonight! Anyway, I throw a few flours together, and hope it’s eatable. The real pinsa will be for a later occasion. The combination of flours … More Pinsa romana…not exactly
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
Wikipedia says : Type Salad Place of origin United States Created by Paul J. Posti for Robert Cobb Main ingredients Salad greens (iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive, Romaine lettuce), tomatoes, bacon, chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese, red-wine vinaigrette Certain salad combinations are eternal and ‘invented’ by someone. There can be some doubt, but … More Cobb salad
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!!
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