The ‘One Pan Perfect’ cookbook from Donna Hay is a topper. The following recipe is awesome and contains Italian ingredients only. The following dish is for sure more than enough for 3p ( or 2p if you’re really hungry). Clean and wash 500 grams of fresh spinach. Chop 4 garlic cloves. Heat a pan with … More Prepare yourself for a superb vegetarian lasagna
In oktober I found a few good tasting varieties of small sized pumpkins ( sorry I don’t know their names). The last one, possibly a small ‘Marina di Chioggia’ is not really ‘good-looking’ but has a promising flavor, confirmed by Oskar🐾. Remove the skin ( or not) and seeds of the pumpkin. Chop in cubes … More The last pumpkin of my winter collection
Agretti belongs to the salicorne family. It’s often eaten as a side dish. The cleaning process takes a bit of time, you have to remove the hard parts and the yellow parts. Apart from being a bit salty, it has no particular flavor. My idea for tonight is a lasagna with agretti and green asparagus … More Agretti or monk’s beard
If I have to make a choice between the taste of a meal or the appearance, I will certainly go for the taste. If I can make a dish more attractive without the need of all my patience, I will do my very best, of course. Layers of food are always a surprise for your … More A vegetarian artistic lasagna
Our dear friends Giancarla and Lucia are daily spoiled by mama Anna, Lucia’s mother, with home made catering. Today we are part of the spoiling😉 and we enjoy a cheesy vegetarian lasagna with the famous local gobbi. I don’t want to know how many kcal we easily ingest but Anna is a real Italian mama … More Mama Anna makes us a delicious lasagna
Dinner with myself is almost always a vegetarian recipe. While doing grocery shopping for a few days I notice fresh green asparagus, and above all ‘made in Italy’. I take two of those thin lasagna sheets out of the freezer. Mix 125 grams of super light cream with 2 chopped garlic cloves, 2 teaspoons of … More The easiest lasagna ever
During winter our body seems to ask for more comfortfood to control our temperature, or to make it even more cosy. Lasagne is, for sure, thé number 1 of Italian comfortfood. Reduce the amount of kcal by avoiding meat, and trying to find lighter ways to prepare the bechamel sauce. The extra thin lasagna sheets, … More Too much comfortfood?
Thinking about ragù is normally associated with tomatoes, but not today. Chop 2 carrots, 1 leek, 4 garlic cloves and fry in a drizzle of olive oil. Add 200 grams of minced chicken meat, 1 table spoon of chopped fresh rosemary and a few stems of fresh thyme. Bake and stir. Add 50 ml of … More Lasagna with white ragù
Green asparagus are avalable in different colors of green, different sizes. They are so fresh for the moment and so delicious, in so many combinations. In the cooking magazine of Coop I find a lovely recipe of a ‘lasagnette’. Put the wooden parts of 1 bunch of asparagus with 1 chopped carrot, a few stems … More Lasagnette with green asparagus
There are many variations on vegetarian lasagna. ‘The Green Kitchen at Home’ inspires me for a delicious version of the classical tomato lasagna. The recipe serves 5-6p. Home made pasta is a little extra effort with the great advantage to create the perfect shape for the oven dish of choice. Put 250 grams of fine … More Vegetarian lasagna
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