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- Faking Fish – Il Pesce Finto
- Hounded by the Whore – Pasta alla Puttanesca
- The Trick of Chicken and the Brick
- A Cautionary Tale of Seafood Gnocchi with Clams and Mussels
- The Makeover with Uriah Heep Ingredients: Egg Pasta with Courgettes and Tomatoes
- A dinner with Friends from the Salento (Puglia)
- False Economy and Wild Asparagus
- Little Easter – Pasquetta
Category Archives: Antipasti
Getting crabby
I was doing some shopping at Rome’s Piazza Vittorio market a few weeks ago and came across the sale of live crabs. Live crabs may be a normal feature in some parts of the world, such as Granville Market in … Continue reading
The Salad with a Mysterious Pedigree – Insalata Russa
(N.B. PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME WHY THE PRINT IS BLUE – I DON’T KNOW WHAT BUTTON I PRESSED FOR THIS CHANGE OF COLOUR, SORRY!) I almost got a headache reading around the origins for a mixture of veggies and … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Fish and seafood, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged apple, beetroot, carrots, crayfish, festive food, home made mayonnaise, insalata russa, lemon, olive oil, onion, peas, potatoes, salade olivier, tuna, wine vinegar
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Seafood Cous Cous
Surprisingly, a lot of people I know, including members of my immediate family, do not like cous cous. It doesn’t bear thinking about, does it, I love it! And so I came up with this version, a cous cous bearing … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Basic Techniques, Fish and seafood, Herbs and plants, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged basil, fish stock, MUSSELS, prawns, red capsicum, Seafood cous cous, squid
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Broccoli fritters – frittelle di broccolo
Another one from me, the FFF (fried food fanatic). Here are some pretty broccolo romano florets, all washed and ready to go. Put plenty of salt into plenty of boiling water and plop the florets in for a few minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged broccoli fritters, eggs, flour, groundnut oil, spring onion
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Orange-Scented Hummus
I read about Smitten Kitchen’s technique for making the fluffiest of hummuses a few weeks ago (http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2013/01/ethereally-smooth-hummus) and although I have no reason to doubt the culinary sagacity of its author (on the contrary I am a great admirer), I … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Basic Techniques, Pressure Cooker, Recipes from outside Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged hummus, Il Cefalicchio (Canosa, oranges, Puglia), Smitten Kitchen, tahini, zest
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Caciu all’argentera: Sicilian ‘rabbit’
Sunday evening, the day after you’ve hosted a Saturday night dinner which has, yes, been a lot of fun but which, also, bequeathed a lot of clearing and tidying up in its wake. Amazingly, there are hardly any leftovers … … Continue reading
Adding mussels to courgettes
I could have spelled that ‘muscles’ instead of ‘mussels’, considering how facetiously I wrote in a previous post about the lack lustre taste of courgettes (zucchini) but I think I have made the point now so … enough is enough. … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Fish and seafood, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged courgettes, garlic, MUSSELS, pepper, zucchini
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Preparing Courgette Blossoms, Stuffing them and Frying Them
I was so in love with the courgette blossoms I bought one day that I put them inside a vase for a bit. There is something so very jolly about them! Before being eaten, they need to be trimmed a … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Herbs and plants, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged anchovy, basil, courgette blossoms, fiori di zucca, mozzarella, oil, zucchini flowers
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My favourite Batter for Courgette Blossoms
There are as many batters as you care to make. That became my conclusion a few years ago when I was experimenting with batters for courgette blossoms or fiori di zucca as they are called in Italian. Traditionally in Rome, … Continue reading
What to do with boring courgettes: ‘boats’ with shrimps
Many friends and relations often comment that many of the vegetables taste so much nicer in Italy than back home, wherever ‘home’ might happen to be. That’s as may be except for one vegetable which I think is utterly ‘boring’ … Continue reading
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Tagged capers, courgettes, home made mayonnaise, zucchine
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