Broccoli looks good, tastes delicious and is super healthy food. Whole grain pasta is perfect in combination with this top ingredient. Boil 70 grams of whole grain pasta pp in salted water. Add 400-500 grams of chopped broccoli pp (no waist!!) during the last 4-5 mins of cooking time. Drain and keep some of the … More Another Italian tradition in a different coat
Clean 10 baby artichokes. Cut each one in 8. Put them immediately in a recipient filled with water and the juice of 1 lemon (keep the zeste ). Chop and fry 4 garlic cloves and 1 pepperoncini in a drizzle of olive oil. Add the zeste and the drained artichokes. Add a few chopped black … More Another awesome pasta dish
A mixture of fresh fish for 2p is available in Italy. The fishmonker chops fresh squid, salmon, some white fish and adds some large shrimps. This fresh mixture is much better than what you can buy frozen. Boil 120 grams of pasta. Add 200 grams of samphire during the last mins. Chop and fry 2 … More Mixture of fish for 2p
If I would have the choose between a main dish or starter, I will surely take a starter, or a few starters instead of a starter and main dish ;-). Simple and pure, although not ideal for my ecological footprint, is carpaccio or sashimi of raw salmon and tuna. For 2p 100 grams of each … More Sashimi as starter
The following days will be hot. Our Belgian guests are already getting used to that kind of weather. A fresh lunch outside is a nice welcome to old friends. A green cold soup (cfr blogpost Green gazpacho), a cold pasta salad, a simple green salad, a simple caprese (tomato, mozzarella and fresh basil) and some … More Lunch in the shade
The less I try, the better it grows! I’m more and more convinced that ‘real gardening’ is not my thing. Although it must be awesome to go to your kitchen garden and collect what you want to prepare. For 2p chop and fry 300 grams of chicken filet in a drizzle of sunflower oil. Remove … More Coriander harvest
Cooking is not always time consuming, and doesn’t have to be elegant to be healthy and tasty. Marinate chopped chicken in olive oil, lemon juice, pepper and salt. Chop sweet potatoes, eggplant, courgettes, mushrooms, tomatoes, onion, garlic. Add a few stems of fresh rosemary, olive oil and put everything on baking paper in the oven … More Sometimes, I just ‘throw’ the food in the oven
Italians cannot survive without pasta. The choice of whole grain pasta is gradually becoming more extensive. For 3p, chop and fry 500 grams of fresh onion and 4 garlic gloves in some olive oil. Add 100 ml of white wine. Allow the wine to evaporate. Add some water and 8 anchovies filets of good quality. … More Pure Italian food
It can be silly, but if family and friends are visiting us, we have a small list of ingredients which we still cannot find here and which are too good not to be eaten. Coriander was on that list, but finally it’s available and my own harvest is growing. Flour mixtures for home made bread … More Smuggling of halloumi 😉
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
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