Tag: Salt and pepper
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Rainbow Chard With Pine Nuts And Raisins
In my village a new, furtive fruit and vegetable seller recently appeared. A few times during the week, you need to wander through the cobbled streets and, if you’re lucky, you’ll find her and her battered old car full of fruits and vegetables from her garden. She sells them straight out of…
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Borlotti Bean And Tuna Salad
An easy meal in just five minutes! I hope you’re starting to be ready to cope with food again now, since a couple of weeks have passed since the excesses of the holidays. Bean and tuna salad is a great one as it’s incredibly quick to make and tastes delicious (of course,…
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Stewed Red Cabbage and Apples
Enjoying the food in Munich, Germany Recently, we were lucky to be able to visit the beautiful city of Munich, Germany and took in a visit to Legoland. The Munich part was for the adults in the family and the Legoland part was to convince the younger members of the family to wander…
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Sicilian Swordfish Steaks
Sicily gets into your blood This week I’m taking a little trip down (my) memory lane with this swordfish steak dish. I love this recipe for baking the fish with a coating of breadcrumbs, almonds and parsley! It was difficult to take a good photo of it, but I hope you can get…
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Marinated Shrimps With Tomato Salsa
A quick and delicious dinner: shrimps are great to keep on hand! I always keep a bag of frozen shrimps/prawns in the freezer for those times when I just don’t know what to make for dinner. They’re quick to thaw out and very fast to cook, and it doesn’t take much to make…
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Pasta Salad To Beat The Heat!
We have pasta for lunch nearly every day. We have to, otherwise we would be disowned from Italian society. It’s one of the rules of holding an Italian passport. In the Summer months, the thought of a hot pasta dish can sometimes feel like a little too much, so we welcome pasta salads!…
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Rosemary Leg of Lamb with Baked Tomatoes
Making the perfect roast leg of lamb Easter has been and gone, but roast leg of lamb is not just destined for that long weekend! This roasted lamb leg was what I actually cooked for my Italian side of the family on Easter Sunday. Now, it’s not because we actually celebrate any kind…
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Root Vegetable and Kale Soup
The joys of scraping ice, cycling in the snow, and kale It’s getting a teensy bit colder….not as cold as it should be at this time of the year, but cold enough to start making soup every now and then. I feel cheated: I’ve only had to scrape ice off my car window…
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Spelt and Chickpea Soup
When the cold weather hits, it’s time for soup I think we’ve been picked up by Dorothy’s tornado and transported somewhere not half as interesting as Oz. We live in a place where it hardly ever rains, until a couple of weeks ago. It started and pretty much hasn’t stopped since. My husband…
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Sardines With Red Onions (Sarde in Saor)
Sarde in Saor; better late than never I’m a little late with this traditional Venetian recipe for Sarde in Saor (Fresh sardines with red onions). One year has already flown past at the speed of light since we were in Venice. I’m not sure where it went. I had all these great plans…
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Fusilli With Radicchio, Speck And Gorgonzola
I was first introduced to radicchio when I was living in California. I have an Italian friend who comes from the mountainous area in the North-East of Italy where radicchio is grown and used extensively. At the time she was living in a to-die-for apartment on the way up to Coit Tower in…
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Tagliatelle and Chickpeas (Ciceri e Tria)
I’m sure that right now you’re saying, either aloud and making all your work-mates turn to look at you, or more sensibly, in your head so that nobody knows that you’re not working, “What the heck is Ciceri e Tria??!!!”. Well, that’s what I said when I first heard of these words when we…
