For 2p cut a fennel. Do you know that the female (with the real hips) fennel has a sweeter taste than the male (longer shaped and slim hips)? No idea whether there are also ‘in-betweens’ with the most delicate taste??? Anyway, chop a female fennel, 1 onion, 4 garlic cloves and 1 spicy little pepper. … More In love with fregola!
For 6p 1,5 kilo of monkfish. Remove the skin and cut in smaller parts. Prepare the marinade of chermoula with 2 chopped garlic cloves, 1 tea spoon of sea salt, 2 teaspoons of cumin, 1 teaspoon of paprika. Grind everything in a mortire. Add 1 bunch of chopped fresh coriander. Grind in the mortire. Add … More Tajine with monkfish
Checking the fridge while making my shopping list for next week provides the following loot : 1 courgette, 1 fennel, 2 enormous yellow sweet peppers, 4 purple carottes, cherry tomatoes and a few spring onions. 1 Yellow sweet pepper will make a delicious soup for tomorrow and all the other vegetables will make a colorful … More Pure and healthy!
Artichokes are almost always available in the local supermarket of Siena. They are smaller and thus don’t have the internal hairy part. Today I want to try a tajine with artichokes, potatoes and peas. Inspiration is given by the book by Ghillie Basan who mixes old Moroccan traditions with the contemporary kitchen. Clean the artichokes … More While Muslim nations are attacked by crazy Trump, let’s at least make them feel at home in our kitchen!
With some fresh cherrytomatoes (600g approx), some red onion and of course a few cloves of garlic we have already a nice portion of vegetabels on our plate. During Thursday shopping I chose two nice looking local whole fish (type of sea bass), which were immediately stored in the freezer. They will be perfect company … More Tajine tomato and fish marriage
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