I live in Italy, I cook wherever you want, and every month I look forward to the arrival of the new deliciousnederland magazine to be inspired. The december edition is full of great ideas for Christmas cooking, or winter cooking in general. Working with pastry, especially puff pastry, to wrap up food in a special … More Something special
For 2p, mix 2 chopped sweet potatoes, 3 chopped normal potatoes and 1 chopped little taste pumpkin of 800 grams, 1 chopped spicy little pepper, 4 garlic cloves unpeeled, 3 bay leaves and a drizzle of olive oil in a large flat oven dish and bake for 40 mins at 180°. Remove the oven dish … More In a cold season, warm colors on your plate
Keep it simple with good ingredients’ is a rule in most of the Italian recipes. Jamie Oliver has an Italian style of cooking and knows what to do with a perfect mozzarella. For 2p 200 grams of real buffalo mozzarella is a large portion as appetizer, but in combination with a light main course it’s … More Lucious buffalo mozzarella
Sweet potate in a fabulous stew, seasoned with coriander and ginger syrup is a perfect meal for this month. In Milan I bought three bunches of coriander, so you can be sure to find lots of this wonderful herb in the recipes of this week ;-). For those who are not so crazy about this … More Sweet sweet potato
So many reasons to be in love with squash : their looks, their beautiful color, their flavor ( intenser when they are precooked in the oven), their nutritional value and the incredible variety of recipes. Buy goodlooking pumpkins. They cheer up your kitchen and it’s one of the vegetables which can be stored for a … More My true love for squash
A few years ago I organized one of my huge dinners. In an Italian buffet one of the dishes was home made gnocchi. I forgot the recipe which I tried, and to make a long story short, the moment the gnocchi arrived in the boiling water, they were probably tired of my work and looked … More It’s about time to get rid of my first ‘gnocchi trauma’
After a few hours of being in the garden and my daily exercise (remember! 3 times weekly 30-40 mins of treadmill, 3 times weekly 20 mins of rowing in combination with some muscle training and 1 day off) I really need some carbs and cheese, and no, I will never get a ‘sixpack’. I must … More Carbs and cheese, I know what you think 😉
Inspired again by this great book (thanks to Katrin, my youngest daughter, for this lovely present last Christmas xx) of Jamie Oliver, the menu of today is a cauliflower oven dish. The original recipe is a side dish for 8p. Split everything in two and you get a full meal for 2p (little variations on … More Side dishes in bigger portions as full meal, why not?
In his Christmas cookbook Jamie Oliver has collected a lot of inspiring recipes, not only for Christmas but for dishes in the colder seasons. The carpaccio of beetroot is a beautiful dish, but next time I will try it a little bit different. As a starter for 2p 2 small beetroots or 1 big beetroot … More Beetroot carpaccio, I love that color!
So sad to read that Antonio Carluccio passed away today. The recipe of yesterday was a pure coincidence. Carluccio had a passion for food as well as for cooking. ‘A drizzle of good olive oil’ is one of his most famous sentences in his television programs. He will never be really dead. Thanks, Antonio … More No carbs tonight, lasagna parmigiana but first : tribute to Antonio Carluccio
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