Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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stuffed zucchini
Zucchini, eggplant and stuffed tomatoes are dishes that are used often in Mediterranean cooking. I had the pleasure of eating zucchini and stuffed tomatoes in Greece and I must say that they were very good . Now this is a recipe that, like many others in my blog came to me, passed [...]
spinach and smoked tuna terrine
It ‘s spinach time! The spinach harvest in my garden was excellent. Although I had the same problem I have with the salad … .. they’re all ready at the same time! But this is not a big problem, because the beauty of spinach is that you can also [...]
bruschetta with tomatoes
Bruschetta with tomatoes is certainly one of those dishess that, I believe , represents Italy. Bruschetta seems like a simple thing to do, and in reality it is, but you must be extremely careful with a few things. 1: The bread must be Casareccio bread, baked in a wood oven, [...]
carciofi alla romana
Fourth row of the vineyard, another 3 artichokes ready to be picked! So to continue on the theme of missing Rome, I thought to do even the artichokes in the Roman way, Carciofi alla romana. In this way, even if spread out over several days, I had a full Roman meal. Stuffed Zucchini flowers [...]
zucchini flowers
This dish I could not live without . I have spoken to you before about these delicious zucchini flowers cook in the Roman way. Now that my vegetable garden is filled with zucchini , I think it’s the right time to do it. Each region has it’s own way to cook [...]
pancetta salad
Each year I make the same mistake! When it’s time to plant in the vegetable garden, I am so pleased that I put all the salad in one day. The result is that when the salad is ready, IT ‘S ALL READY AT THE SAME TIME! And then….. we find ourselves eating [...]
lasagna express
This is one of those brilliant ideas that gave me so much satisfaction. In the afternoon I went to my local supermarket to buy something for dinner. I am sure that this happens to you too , there are evenings when you do not know what to eat, you do not want [...]
cook grilled peppers
I love peppers, but unfortunately over the years, I discovered that like raw garlic ( served in the typical bruschetta, with olive oil and salt) I find them a bit ‘indigestible. Could it be an age thing? I don’t know, but considering that I like them so much, I found [...]
me and my friends Rosanna, Umberto, Erminia and Silvana
Sunday evening I went home exhausted, but fell asleep smiling.
Let’s start from the beginning, as I had already mentioned in Saturday’s blog, this weekend my adopted village of Allerona was celebrating S.Isidoro the patron saint of farmers. This year for the first time I had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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