Every single day I enjoy my afternoon teatime with something extra. A cookie is enough on (most) weekdays, but often not on weekend days 😉. Today we had late breakfast and late lunch, but still towards 16.30 I decided to prepare an afternoon delight. Last week I ‘consulted’ the summer editions of my favorite cooking … More Lastminute decisions
We have a lovely friend as our guest this week. Gerda didn’t really express any preferences. So I decide to start with a paella variety. For 3p I buy 500 grams of mussels, 500 grams of vongole, 400 grams of squid and 300 grams of peeled frozen good quality scampi. As vegetables I need 1 … More Paella in docvs style
I’m checking our stock. 140 grams of digestive cookies are waiting for consumption. In the little freezer a few packages of figs are filling the space, so I wll use 1 portion of 14 halved figs. Mix the cookies with 40 grams of cold butter in the blender. Add 1/2 teaspoon of speculoos spices. Spread … More Almost evening, but still sweet Sunday
February and spring is in the air, I love it, but food wise I’m confused. I find some ‘in between’ inspiration in one of my cookbooks ‘ The Green Kitchen at Home’. A fusion of two of their recipes with lots of vegetables and a little twist are a possible compensation to my confusion 😜.Clean … More The Green Kitchen at Home
Soup as a dinner is an ideal way to reduce your kcal without reducing flavor. For 2-3portions, clean and chop 1 stem of white celery, 1 leek, 1 red bell pepper, 1 yellow, 4 garlic cloves and 1 chili. Put everything in a tagine. Add a few bay leaves, 1 teaspoon of fennel seeds, the … More In between with lots of vegetables
Remember those classical starters with fish served on a shell of scallop? This recipe could eventually be used for that purpose. This one is a bigger version. Thanks to local saffron ( thanks Anria for such a nice present). For 2p, clean and slice 4 medium sized leeks ( +/- 800 grams). Heat a pan. … More Local saffron in a classical dish
Sabrina Ghayour’s cookbooks are fabulous. It will be difficult not to cook everything in the following weeks, but that would be against my ‘rules’ Slice a few eggplants ( too much is no problem, you can serve the leftover as lunch the following day) in slices of approximately 1cm. Brush some oil on each slice … More Eggplant with a beautiful sauce
In one of my first blogpost I mentioned my first ‘gnocchi experiment’. They ended up in an oven dish served as one large gnocchi-puree. After reading about : what potatoes to use, how to shmash them, how to store the gnocchi before cooking, our ‘relationship’ has changed. You need time to prepare them, and there … More Homemade gnocchi
It’s never easy to find the ideal after dinner dessert. It can’t be the protagonist of a meal, so it’s important to remember: not too heavy, not too much, not too complicated. I found out that Italians ( which counts for other southern countries) used to bring or wine, or dessert if invited to a … More Another simple dessert
Kuku is a kind of frittata with a Middle Eastern flavor, and thus, worth to try to convince Italians to eat other cooking styles. An Italian is proud of its national ( or is it regional🤔) heritage, including its cooking. Kuku is based on vegetables, eggs( as frittata is) but with a delicate flavor of … More Kuku with eggplant and caramelized onions
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