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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: Fish and seafood
A Cautionary Tale of Seafood Gnocchi with Clams and Mussels
Gnocchi presented in either a mussel- or clam sauce topped off with rocket leaves were very popular around Rome during the early nineties. Basically, it was the rocket leaves that were so popular, there was a tendency to strew them … Continue reading
A dinner with Friends from the Salento (Puglia)
A friend of mine once commented on the fact that when you got to meet new people, and decided to invite them over to dinner to get better acquainted, they would sometimes invite you back to their home for ‘a … Continue reading
Repeat Post: all about blanching anchovies
This is a bit of a cheat post … in that I am re-posting something I wrote two years ago regarding fresh anchovies and how to process them to make them fit for an antipasto. My conscience is somewhat assuaged … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Techniques, Fish and seafood, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged antipasto, how to blanch anchovies, lemon, olive oil, pine kernels, salt
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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 Sardinian Seafood Salad – Astice alla Catalana
I really do not know enough about how lobsters are graded world-wide but I can safely vouch for those found in the waters of Sardinia (especially in the Gulf of Asinara between Stintino and Santa Teresa di Gallura, and also … Continue reading
Fancy Schmancy Seafood Pasta – Amatriciana di Mare
This pasta dish is a close interpretation of the “Amatriciana di Mare” recipe of chef Dino de Bellis (currently working at Rome’s Salotto Culinario restaurant). I think his title is a misnomer because ‘amatriciana’ and/or ‘matriciana’ is all about pancetta … 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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Spaghetti with Mini Lobster Sauce – Spaghetti all’Astice
I tried looking it up in the dictionary but there doesn’t seem to be an English equivalent for the Italian lobster known as ‘astice’. An astice is most definitely a lobster but it is very very small compared with any … Continue reading
“Best before”, Expiry dates and Creativity – Artichoke and Seafood Pasta
The word ‘creative’ is bandied about quite a lot in food and culinary speak, isn’t it. And creativity is indeed the spice of life — literally! When sperm and cell get together, that’s what they do, they ‘create’ life! When … Continue reading
