Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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Spaghetti alla puttanesca
Why haven’t i made this dish before? It ‘s a very popular type of pasta, fast and easy to prepare plus it doesn’t need any expensive ingredients. Welcome to Spaghetti alla Puttanesca. Meaning : The Prostitutes spaghetti . As to the origin of the name , the main theory takes us [...]
Busicchi
This Sunday for the first time in my life, I ate Busicchi. In our village they are considered to be the best part of a pig. A real delicacy. If you’re wondering what they might be , you’ll probably be surprised to hear that they’re actually the dried skin of the intestines .
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Bruschetta goat cheese ,avocado and olives.
The other day I was flicking through a magazine and saw this easy recipe. Nearly all the ingredients I already had. The black olives ( picked last October and marinated in garlic and chili) , Parsley in the garden and goats cheese in the fridge. The only things [...]
Pasta with broccoli, spicy gorgonzola , walnuts and orange.
Earlier this week it seemed that spring had arrived early. Blue skies and wonderful hot sun. My hopes were up and I started to think of summer. But , then as fast as it came the warm weather disappeared behind grey clouds , drenching rain [...]
Foam of coffee with dark chocolate .
After spending the afternoon in Rome demonstrating against that wolf Berlusconi , I returned home. Nick calmly told me what had been happening around here. Apparently , we had our own wolf problem going on. Our neighbors had seen two big wolves running around at the end [...]
Monkefish roll in speck
Years ago I took a cooking course in Rome and there for the first time I discovered the possibility of combining two different ingredients such as meat and fish. In my traditional mind the two things were distinctly different. To give you an example, since I was little, I’ve been [...]
Smoked pork shank
Do you think it is normal to spend hours staring at a variety of meats, cheeses, vegetables, canapés ,spices , sandwiches and cakes ????? actually the list is long, in fact in London the list of food possibilities is endless !!!!!!
At the start ,I was a little shocked to see [...]
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