Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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chickpeas ball
My mood has not changed, maybe it’s the sun, the heat and fatigue to working in the garden. But for today I thought to make a quick finger food that once prepared can go in the fridge. Ready for 7.00 p.m. when a glass of chilled white wine is waiting for me [...]
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 [...]
white lasagna
This weekend, we had friends staying with us, two Italians, 1 English and 1 Irish . They came for the aperitivo and we enjoyed the evening outside in the garden . Yes, because the sun has finally arrived, it’s hot! So thinking about this combination of guests I thought it could be [...]
prosciutto e melone
I am one of those people who eat the ham but leaves the melon. … you’re probably thinking , what’s the point of putting it on the blog if I never eat it! So here it is, it’s the Antipasto that Italians go crazy for….! Prosciutto and melon is prepared in [...]
roast chicken with herbs
A couple of years ago, we had a few chickens , they were in a large enclosure together with our two goats and happily made their free life. Growing up though, they started to fly so high they could jump the fence and come knocking at our door. They were [...]
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 [...]
sausage on creamed saffron risotto
The whole village is excited, everyone has a task. There are those who prepare the games, who organize the list of the ladies who are going to make the cakes, those who buy the ingredients for the “farmers “menu and those who buy gallons of wine. I was assigned [...]
humus
Eventually I decided to cut the grass, so I donned my very fashionable work clothes and armed with the strimmer started to cut … …., and here we are.. the wires in the strimmer sent a small stone with great speed against the glass of my car and BBHHOOMMM. Believe me I was [...]
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 [...]
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