I have a confession to make : certain days I would prefer not to cook but, never ever, I would decide not to eat a warm meal in the evening ;-). This recipe is an ideal ‘in between’. Start by heating the oven at 160°. Put 250 grams halved cherry tomatoes on baking paper. Add … More Pasta caprese
Cauliflower is popular again, and that’s a good thing, because it’s healthy, it’s cheap and can be prepared in some many different ways. Magimix does the job today. Put the cauliflower in the blender. Mix the ‘cauliflower-flower’ with 50 grams of almond flower, pepper, salt and 1 table spoon of dried basil. Add 4 eggs. … More Cauliflower pizza
Once you have eaten a pizza in Napoli, you will rarely reach the same level of pizza dough at home.That’s why I prefer to work with puff pastry instead, thin and cripsy. For 2 p cover 1 puff pastry (I prefer the square ones) with a mixture of 150 grams of ricotta, 2 chopped garlic … More Flat puff pastry
For 2p 600 grams of different shapes, different colors of small tomatoes. Halve them or cut in different sizes. Add mozzarellini (small mozzarella balls). Add some pistache nuts. Boil 600 grams of small potatoes in salted water al dente. Cool down and halve them. Mix the tomatoes, mozzarella, potatoes, nuts with loads of fresh basil … More 7.30 pm and still 25° outside, maxi version of a caprese salad
Find 1 untreated lemon, a real one with thick skin (Amalfis are superb). Remove the ends and cut in 4 slices of 1 ½ cm. Remove the lemon meat. If you buy the lemon try to add some leaves of the lemon, they give extra taste. Put the slices on baking paper (and/or on the … More The most perfect appetizer, many thanks to Jamie Oliver
Combine slices of a lucious mozzarella with slices of, preferable sunriped, tomatoes on a plate. Add a drizzle of good olive oil, balsamico vinegar, pepper, salt and fresh basil. Perfect is the word!
The evenings when I only cook for myself I try to ‘serve’me a dish which I would not prepare for the two of us. Tuscany sausages are one of those delights. For myself 2 round courgettes, halved and hatched. Cut the flesh of the courgettes and mix with 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped spicy … More Salsicce toscane with fennelseeds as a private pleasure
Whatever you can slice thinly, you can serve as carpaccio. For today we combine thinly sliced radishes and cucumber with sliced mozzarella. Spread some good olive oil, some lemon juice, salt and pepper. Garnish with some parsley… Light and delicious.
Make a pizza dough from a mix (we use a mix based on kamut and use 200 grams of flour for 3p) preferably the day before. Add a little portion of squid ink to obtain the black color. Leave the dough in the fridge, wrapped in cling film. Mix 150 grams of philadelphia light with … More Black pizza, spooky…
What do we have left in the fridge : 300 grams of mushrooms, 400 grams of spinach, 2 tomatoes (never keep tomatoes in the fridge!), a square puff pastry, 1 mozzarella and some rocket salad. For 3p blanch and drain 400 grams of spinach. Try to remove all the liquid. Chop 1 red onion, 3 … More No waste- day
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