Knitting, apple pie, candle light in the afternoon and mushroom risotto is not exactly ‘la primavera’, but is just cosy cosy. For 2p, put a few dried chopped porcinis in 100 ml of milk or cream. Chop and fry 1 red onion and 4 garlic cloves. Add 120 grams of good quality risotto rice. Bake … More Where is that Spring?
Start with the tomato sauce. Chop and fry 6 garlic cloves and 1 white onion. Add a glass of white wine. Allow the wine to evaporate. Add 2 cans of cherry tomatoes and the chopped stems of a bunch of fresh parsley. Cook for approx 15-20 mins. Add pepper, salt. Keep apart. Boil a large … More Red mullet ‘Livorno style’ for 4p
Thanks to Maria Silvia ( who had to clean her fridge before her ‘goodbye party’) I have now 2 delicious Calabrian pork sausages, long, also chubby and red because of the amount of chilly peppers. Iris prefers not to try, so I have a huge portion ;-). Bake 500 grams of cherry tomatoes, 1 chopped … More Italian sausages from Calabria
Squacquerone is a fresh cows milk cheese. The day after the large buffet I decide to prepare a ‘caccio e pepe’- like pasta with this lovely cheese. Boil the pasta in salted water. Drain, but keep some of the cooking water. Chop and fry 4 garlic cloves. Add 200 grams of squacquerone, loads of pepper, … More No waste of squacqerone
Knead 500 grams of flour type 0, 4 table soons of olive oil and 300 ml of water in the kitchen robot. Store the dough at room temperature for at least 1 hour. Knead the dough once more on a floured surface or in between two sheets of baking paper. Create the appropriate sized pizzas. … More Time for some pizza
So many reasons to be in love with squash : their looks, their beautiful color, their flavor ( intenser when they are precooked in the oven), their nutritional value and the incredible variety of recipes. Buy goodlooking pumpkins. They cheer up your kitchen and it’s one of the vegetables which can be stored for a … More My true love for squash
A few years ago I organized one of my huge dinners. In an Italian buffet one of the dishes was home made gnocchi. I forgot the recipe which I tried, and to make a long story short, the moment the gnocchi arrived in the boiling water, they were probably tired of my work and looked … More It’s about time to get rid of my first ‘gnocchi trauma’
Autumn holiday in Belgium is an ideal moment to open the house for visitors. Day 1, Lisbet, my oldest daughter, arrives in Florence. After a little walk in Certaldo, small and beautiful, 250 grams of fresh pasta dough awaits being transformed into ‘ravioli alla mozzarella and artichokes’. Clean 4 smaller artichokes. Fry 2 chopped garlic … More Certain food is made to show people how much you love them
As starter ARTICHOKE SALAD in a PARMIGIANO BASKET For 4p clean 8 smaller artichokes (they have no hair) and put the softer central part in water with juice of 1 lemon. Store the artichokes in the fridge (this can easily be done the day before). Remove the artichokes out of the water and dry them. … More Really in love with Italian sausages 😉
Last week was really intense. While Iris had to work, I had a lot of ‘social’ appointments and travelled from one place to another. So nice to see some friends and family (it’s always difficult to make a ‘list’) and so nice to be back home. Let’s start with a tasty, quick and real Italian … More Back home in Siena, scaloppine al limone
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