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
From the moment of arrival, the delicious magazine is always a superb source of new cooking ideas. As you know we live in Italy and the only foreign magazine which arrives in our mail is my beloved Delicious. With a few days of delay, sometimes even more (italian speed is sometimes piano pianissimo ;-)) but … More Quick puff pastry with eggplant and garlic
It can be silly, but if family and friends are visiting us, we have a small list of ingredients which we still cannot find here and which are too good not to be eaten. Coriander was on that list, but finally it’s available and my own harvest is growing. Flour mixtures for home made bread … More Smuggling of halloumi 😉
½ white cabbage = approx 500 grams + 1 green apple = approx 180 grams + 2 stems of a white celery and 1 small onion = perfect amount of vegetables for 1 meal for 2p. Chop the white cabbage and onion in the kitchen robot or with a mandoline. Mix with little cubes of … More Coleslaw remains a topper on Iris’ list
For 2p, clean 600 grams of Brussels sprouts. Keep the outer leaves seperate. Put the sprouts on a tray on baking paper. Mix with a drizzle of olive oil, 2 table spoons of sunflower seeds, 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 table spoon of dried savory, pepper and salt. Bake at 180° for 40 mins. Stir … More Lukewarm winter salad
I re-use the same idea as in the post of April 13th of 2017 but with some different ingredients (thanks to cooking magazine Libelle Lekker). Clean and blanch 1 kilo of broccoli for 2p (3 bigger or 4 smaller pieces) in salted water for 2-4 mins. Drain and cool down. Remove part of the stem. … More Hasselback broccoli, hasselback potatoes
Colorful salads, even in winter, cheer up a rainy and windy day. Something cold, something hot, something raw, something cooked, some proteins, some vegetables and a variety of colors offer a perfectly balanced meal. Last night I precooked 500 grams of peeled and chopped beetroot in the oven for 30 mins at 180° in a … More Winter salads
Sweet potate in a fabulous stew, seasoned with coriander and ginger syrup is a perfect meal for this month. In Milan I bought three bunches of coriander, so you can be sure to find lots of this wonderful herb in the recipes of this week ;-). For those who are not so crazy about this … More Sweet sweet potato
Prepare 2 beetroots in the oven. Wrap them in aluminium foil together with a bay leaf, 2 cloves of garlic and a drizzle of olive oil. Try to plan the baking while you need the oven for something else (the day before). Count approx 1h at 180° ( depends on their size). Cool the beetroot … More Funk-a-licious salad
Cut a tasty pumkin in cubes of 3 cm. Put on baking paper. Add 4 table spoons of coconut oil and bake in the oven at 180°. Stir now and again. After 20 mins remove the pumkin out of the oven and mix with 1 can of drained chickpeas, mangochutney made of 1 mango ( … More Orange is today’s color
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