Many thanks to the kitchen robot! Put 300 grams of boiled potatoes and 400 gram of white fish (no fish bones, and dried), a handful of fresh herbs (mix of parsley and basil), 2 garlic cloves, 1 slice of older bread, 3 pickled anchovies in the blender. Add 1 egg and zeste of 1 lemon. … More Finally, fish cakes!
For 2p cut a big fennel into tiny slices. Chop a shallot, 1 spicy little pepper and 2 garlic cloves. Marinate all together in lemon juice and zeste of 1 lemon, 3 table spoons of olive oil, ½ teaspoon of salt and a handfull of chopped parsley. Set apart and stir now and again. Clean … More Elegant squid fennel salad
While waiting to start cultivating our own coriander we love to eat the food of the Middle East and use parsley instead of the delicious coriander (which is not the same, but…). The books of Ottolenghi and Tamimi, especially ‘Jeruzalem’ remain a wonderful source of inspiration. Today: a mixture of some salads with an open … More Official first day of Spring 2017
In the cold department of the supermarket you will find a lot of different wrap-like types of prepared dough (piadine). I was curious to find out how a ‘kamut-piadina’ would taste and decided to use this as an altnernative for a pizza bottom. Kamut is a kind of wheat, but per definition organically grown. To … More Healthy pizza variant
Checking the fridge while making my shopping list for next week provides the following loot : 1 courgette, 1 fennel, 2 enormous yellow sweet peppers, 4 purple carottes, cherry tomatoes and a few spring onions. 1 Yellow sweet pepper will make a delicious soup for tomorrow and all the other vegetables will make a colorful … More Pure and healthy!
– As a perfect starter mix 150 grams of beetroot, first boiled, 150 grams of potatoes, first boiled, 2 garlic cloves in a blender. Add pepper, salt, 1 teaspoon of dried basil, 1 teaspoon of cumin and mix with 1 raw egg. Cool the mixture in the fridge. Preheat the oven at 200°. Put the … More Burgundy red, wow!
Green cabbage is a lovely ingredient. It is full of vitamins and low in kcal. In general cabbages here have a rather small size (800 grams). You can easily store them for more than a week in your fridge. My recent discovery ‘crescenza’ (cheese) with its delicate taste will take care of the protein part. … More Winter delight
When the sky is grey and the clouds are filled with rain we wonder where to go on our next big trip. Although we are spoiled living in country like Italy with so many fantastic places to visit and to discover, we don’t want to miss the opportunity to travel to remote continents and their … More Travelling around the world
Reading recipes in Italian is part of my studying ;-). Italians are proud of radicchio and you have different kinds. It’ s family of our chicory, and it’s also rather bitter. There is the round one which grows like salad and there is the type which grows like chicory and which is less bitter. I … More Sunday, gray and rainy, and ideal study weather!
How to cheer up a gray and rainy day? Our guest of honnour will be India with its extensive fragrances and colours. The indian cuisine is very special not only because of its specific spice blends but also because of its incredibly wide extent. I am not so familiar with this type of cooking, which … More India: Maximum colour & fragrance
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