The monthly magazine of the Italian supermarket Coop costs 1euro. So, for only 1 euro a month I have even more inspiring sources and I gradually become familiar with the Italian cooking vocabulary and with the variety of local products without great effort. For this recipe you need a blender and a fridge. For 2-3 … More Caprese in gazpacho
For 4p buy 4 small round courgettes. Remove gently the inside from the courgettes. Put in the blender with 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 spicy little pepper, a few sage leaves, 100 grams of feta cheese. Blend. Taste and add pepper and salt. Fill the courgettes and put in a oven dish. Finish with grated … More Chubby courgettes as a first course
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
Not that I want to be a fancy cook, but I try to find some variations on classical recipes, avoiding lactose. Half 2 medium sized eggplants. Make some incisions and spread some olive oil. Bake for 30 mins in the oven at 180°. Cool down. In the meanwhile, prepare a tomato sauce with 1 chopped … More Small kitchen, perfect organization, although 😉
Pistou is like a pesto, but without the nuts and cheese is optional. Prepare the pistou in a mortar to fortify your arms ;-). Put 4 garlic cloves and a lot of basil in the mortar and start (you can spread this activity to give your arms some rest). Add olive oil until you obtain … More Soupe au pistou
Mix 180 grams of buckwheat with 350 ml of water. Add 1 table spoon of dried thyme and 1 table spoon of dried oregano. Store in the fridge. This mixture is enough for 3 medium sized pancakes or, in our case, for 3 pizzas. Bake the pancakes in a real hot pan. Put them on … More Buckwheat pizza = glutenfree
In Italy there is no door to door household waste collection. You bring everything to nearby containers. We rent an appartment with a nice garden. So after a few weeks I decided to collect the organic waste (limited to raw fruit and vegetable waste, egg shells and garden waste). Although we have cats I didn’t … More Pumpkin flowers
Gerda, my mother in law, probably worried my inspiration will be gone soon ;-), collected a lot of recipes for me. This eggplant recipe which she found in the magazine ‘Body talk’ as starter, is a perfect main dish in a larger portion. I make a ‘docV version’. For 4p 1,2 kilo of eggplant is … More Eggplant soufflé
Italy has its own flatbread, with or without olive oil and of course, already available in kamut or glutenfree versions. Heat them in a real hot dry pan, shortly on both sides, so they stay crispy and flexible. For 2p, I will always buy three pieces (although next time I have to try home made … More Italian wrap or piadina
The delcious of June is awesome. Sorry, cookbooks, you will have to wait a bit, I can’t stop being inspired. Eggplant salad with chickpeas, baby spinach and a dressing based on feta, Greek yoghurt, yummie. Of course, I will do it my way, and thus, I use the oven instead of a direct fire. … More A vegetarian salad
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