Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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pasta and vegetable
I have not lost hope, spring will arrive! All I need is just a few rays of sunshine to change my mood and feel better, even if sincerely with all this rain and two or three rays of sunshine the grass in my garden grows inexorably! Now, in addition to all [...]
fry artichokes
One thing I immediately noticed when I came to live in the countryside, is the habit of planting roses or artichokes at the beginning of each row of grapes. The meaning of roses was then explained to me, the rose plant serves as a wake-up call, being in fact a very [...]
cannoli with strawberries and ricotta cheese
Everyone knows that Italians really like to talk about two things: food and weather! I confirm this is true and then and to be on the same page, here I am complaining about the weather , but I am also speaking of a food delicacy which I am [...]
polpetta with eggplant and potatoes
I’d do Polpette in every way, I love meatballs cooked with the tomato sauce , also when these are fried , of course or baked (for a lighter version), then there are the fish balls ( in the Italian version, but they are also super good the Thai fish cake [...]
agretti
My dear friend Lorna, great talented chef from London and a person of great creativity in the kitchen, she’s been asking me all this month to do a post about the agretti. This funny vegetable, popular in the Mediterranean and of course here in Italy, apparently, are very difficult to find elsewhere in [...]
broad beans and pecorino cheese
May has started and you can all ready see in all the vegetable gardens of the more precise old farmers, lush and beautiful broad beans. But if, as in my case, you had not prepared your vegetable patch in time to plant broad beans ,… .., then you [...]
buffalo and truffle
Maybe it’s because I’m in a good mood, it maybe all the sun and the smell of summer, it can also be because our aperitif at 7:00 pm in the winter time , has now become an aperitif of 8:00 pm, and more importantly we can also drink it in the [...]
Apple millefoglie
There are days when around 5 p.m. I start to crave something sweet but not too sweet … ..do you understand the feeling? I’m not a great lover of chocolate, I’d rather have cookies or cakes with cream. However, when I have these days it’s extremely dangerous for me to enter into [...]
eggs florentine
Today ,my old Fiat Punto decided she didn’t want to go! Not too bad I thought but then I looked in the fridge and a serious panic came over me. Ok I need to make a small introduction: I live in the middle of the country, the nearest store is a drive [...]
parmigiana
My Neapolitan grandmother always told me that the origin of Parmigiana di melanzane (eggplant parmigiana) there was no doubt, came from Napoli. Yes, because with this recipe there is a real dispute between two regions Campania and Sicily. I’m biased because my grandmother from my mother’s side ,was from Naples , if you [...]
pasta shell
To paraphrase George Clooney, no finger food, no party ! In my opinion, parties should always start from 7.00 pm. Moreover, if the party exceeds the number of 8 people, I do not think the sitting dinner is the best thing, The reason is that people can barely communicate, and you [...]
Mariella , Carla and me
Although the weather was raining and quite chilly, my friends Carla and Mariella – two lovely ladies from the village – telephoned me to participate in a wonderful experience: collecting cicoria or wild chicory in the Umbrian hills. By another name they are called the leaves of wild dandelions. [...]
samosa
At the back of the shelf in the refrigerator I found the filo pastry, honestly I can not remember when I bought it. The problem with filo pastry is that you can hardly use it all in one go, because the sheets are so many! I was very happy to find it and [...]
spinach and ricotta cheese
The Easter holiday is over and the common comment is MAMMA MIA I’m really full! I do not know the tradition in other countries, but here in Italy it starts from breakfast : different types of salami, salty cake with cheese, chocolate, boiled eggs and red wine of course. This [...]
baked patatoe
The days of the fireplace are almost finished, and frankly I am very happy! To bring the wood in and light the fire every day is heavy. But at last the sun is high and the days are starting to be long. The months in front will be spent in the vegetables [...]
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