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Sun dried Tomatoes

Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

Good things come in small packages

Pasta alla norma

Pasta alla norma

 

Today I think I made the last harvest of tomatoes for this season. I’m speaking of tomatoes good for making sauce. For the rest , in the vegetable garden I still have : cherry tomatoes,  tomatoes  good for salad, aubergines and  peppers. Some courgette flowers have appeared , but whether they [...]

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Sun , rain and wild boars

cucumber and mozzarella salad

cucumber and mozzarella salad

 

For the first time this year, I decided to plant in my vegetable garden, a couple of different varieties of tomatoes, two kinds that I haven’t  eaten before, YELLOW cherry tomatoes (even if they look orange) and BLACK tomatoes . I had the inspiration when I was watching an old [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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Spinaci time

spinach and smoked tuna terrine

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 [...]

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Mandolins and church bells

bruschetta with tomatoes

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, [...]

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Artichokes and fireworks

fry artichokes

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 [...]

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Nonna knows best

parmigiana

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 [...]

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