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Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

A double yummy!

grill vegetable

 

I know you were worried ,I know you thought …well, what’s  happened this week ,there are no  zucchini in the blog?????  I do not want to disappoint anyone so here they are.  What’s more it’s a double version! WAHOOO.  Considering also  that my garden is at the moment in full production with [...]

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caprese

caprese

Nothing is faster to prepare, fresh and tasty to eat as a good CAPRESE, especially for a summer lunch. Also at this time of year tomatoes are delicious and the basil is abundant. I started to collect the first cherry tomatoes from my vegetable garden and feel the taste of a freshly picked [...]

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No turning back

watermelon and feta cheese salad

watermelon and feta cheese salad

Just over a year ago, I saw a recipe for a salad made with watermelon and feta. I remember very well thinking …., MAMMA MIA  strange mix. Then last week , this recipe came back in my mind and I thought to do a little research on the [...]

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Easy,fast and good.

mortadella and prunes finger food

mortadella and prunes finger food

 

Here it is a finger food, quick to make and incredibly good. The idea was to put at the base a slice of prune  and to use a glazed balsamic vinegar as a final drop on top. I know you think I’m crazy, and maybe you’re right, maybe all [...]

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A crispy snack not out of a bag.

crispy fried vegetable

crispy fried vegetable

 

Clearly all this time my zucchini continue to grow. I’ve already had enough to freeze a couple of bags , simply cut  into cubes. With the others i made a new version of Parmigiana, in which I substituted eggplants for zucchini  and  have frozen these too. But, to my delight, in [...]

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Paradise is an empty swimming pool

mini frittatas with ham and sesame seeds

mini frittatas with ham and sesame seeds

In these days we’ve been swimming at the  Allerona village pool. The pool is not bad at all, it’s big enough to do serious swimming and the beauty is that it’s surrounded by vineyards. The only problem is that if we want to swim and have a [...]

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Sitting in the tube. Dreaming of Sicily.

bucatini with anchovies

bucatini with anchovies

 

Let’s go to Sicily? Wouldn’t it be nice?  Summer is here 100% now, and finally it’s warm, incorrect….it’s backing hot! Unfortunately we don’t have a swimming pool, although a few years ago, we put a beautiful old bath in the garden with a shower head above. Clearly it is forbidden to [...]

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The ladies prefer oil to ice

tonnarelli and green beans pesto

tonnarelli and green beans pesto

Time for green beans!! Even with these I think I have exaggerated. I planted 20 plants and so now  I have to create some ‘recipes. Talking with the ladies of Allerona, just to be safe, I have checked a bit ‘about the possibility of freezing some of the beans, [...]

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An unexpected present.

finger food with tuna

finger food with tuna

Here is my apotheosis for the most delicious finger food . There are three reasons that make this  dish wonderful. First of all the fact that it’s a finger food , in my opinion, gives it top marks. Secondly, it’s made with fresh tuna (which here costs normally 27 euros [...]

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No pain no grain!

ravioli filled with ricotta and asparagus

ravioli filled with ricotta and asparagus

One of the beautiful things about living in the country  is that we  have many people who come to visit us . Friends and family directly from England or here in Italy. As I’ve said before here in the green hills of Umbria there is always work to be [...]

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You can never have to many artichokes…. apparently!!

capunata

capunata

Scusate, I apologize . When I started this blog, I thought to share the joys of living in the country with you, but unfortunately there is another side to the coin … ..  the ingredients in the kitchen are almost always decided by what’s in season. So ladies and gentleman, today for your [...]

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Sardinian summers.

stuffed calamaro

stuffed calamaro

I had never seen a squid so big!! 600 grams in weight. I imagine that the fisherman who has caught it  must have been an enormous man. I remember when I was little, my parents, for years ,toke me and my brothers on holiday in Sardinia. We did free camping (in those [...]

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Crisis...!Tighten your belts. But ,leave room to eat.

bbq lamb

bbq lamb

 

The assessment we made was this: considering  the quantity of vegetables we produce every summer from the vegetable garden ,  the 20 kg of beef we buy fresh from a local producer, plus the meat my father buys from Abruzzo … … …. we need a bigger freezer! So there it is, [...]

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Not again!!!!!!

lumachelle

lumachelle

 

No, not the savory croissants, again! This was the comment by Nick! But let’s start from the beginning. As I wrote in my blog a long time ago, the savory croissants are a classic at my house, they are something fast to make so I do them often …. in Nick’s view, too [...]

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Zucchini invasion!

stuffed zucchini

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 [...]

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