500 grams of mushrooms…pizza or pasta? Iris… pasta. Chop and fry 4 spring onions, 4 garlic cloves, 1 chili pepper in a mixture of butter and olive oil. Add the chopped mushrooms and 1 tea spoon of dried basil. Bake. Boil some pasta. Mix pasta with mushrooms. Finish with grated pecorino and fresh basil. Done!
Trip to airport, back home and nobody else to cook for tonight. Dinner with me and myself! Cut a small cauliflower in little roses. Add a lost courgette. Chop 2 garlic cloves. Put everything on baking paper. Add 1 table spoon of curry powder, 1 teaspoon of dried thyme, pepper and salt. Bake in the … More Empty house, cooking for one
From the moment of arrival, the delicious magazine is always a superb source of new cooking ideas. As you know we live in Italy and the only foreign magazine which arrives in our mail is my beloved Delicious. With a few days of delay, sometimes even more (italian speed is sometimes piano pianissimo ;-)) but … More Quick puff pastry with eggplant and garlic
For 2p chop 1 cute lady fennel and 1 small male fennel (remember, blogpost In love with fregola) in small pieces. Bake in a drizzle of olive oil. After a few mins add 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped chili pepper and 1 teaspoon of grinded fennel seeds. Add some lemon juice and zeste for a … More Simple pasta dish
Foodbloggers as Julie Van den Kerckove are succesful because of their personal style of cooking. Foodbloggers as docV are just having fun in the kitchen and love to try all those different personal styles of cooking, fusion foodblogger? Anyway Julies filled courgettes with mushrooms and a little cream of avocado are awesome. Cut the head … More Veggie veggie veggie
Boil 400 grams of frozen large white beans in salted water with a few sage leaves for approx 15 mins. Drain the beans and cool down. Mix in the blender with 1 table spoon of savory, 1 egg, 2 table spoons of bread crumb, pepper and salt. Put the mixture in the fridge to become … More Vegetarian balls
Courgettes, young ones, are also perfect in a salad. Slice 1 kilo in stripes and marinate them with the juice of 1 lemon, 2 table spoons of olive oil, 1 finely chopped garlic clove, a handful of chopped wild fennel, a few leaves of chopped mint, pepper and salt. Mix carefully and marinate for at … More Never boring, always different, courgettes!
Squacquerone, stracchino, crescenza are all white, fresh cheeses based on cows milk. Their nutritional value and kcal (lower than normal cheese) is similar. The main difference is their origin. Scqaucquerone is from Emilia Romania as the parmigiano, stracchino is from Lombardia as the gorgonzola, and crescenza is from the province Lodi e Crema and is … More Frittata con squacquerone, zucchine, pinoli e olive
Cavolo nero is real local and the base of the well known ribollita. Cook 200 grams of chopped cavolo nero(remove the real hard parts) for 10 mins in salted water. Drain carefully and cool down. Put the cavolo nero in the blender with 200 grams of ricotta, 50 grams of grated pecorino or parmigiano, 1 … More Gnocchi nudi o ravioli nudi?
We seem to have a real ‘cheesy week’. Mozzarella is waiting to be consumed. Avocado, baby spinach, cucumber, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes is surely a colorful combination. For 2p peel 500 grams of sweet potatoes. Cut in pieces of 1- 1 ½ cm thick. Mix the potatoes with 1 table spoon of garam masala, 3 … More One more salad before a refill of the fridge
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