My Home Food That’s Amore- 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
- Mid-week Supper: Veal Piccata, Pan-Fried Kale and Potatoes, and Cauliflower Cheese
- Velvety Asparagus soup – Vellutata di Aparagi
- The Aspirin of Foods — Pasta with Sausage and Artichoke
Category Archives: Recipes from outside Italy
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 Perfumed Rice of Persia and a ‘Bits and Pieces’ Dinner
Maybe it’s just me and the reading material that I come across as I frolic and gambol through the world of food and cooking, but there seems to be quite a spate of all-things-Persian looping around in the blogosphere at … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Techniques, Contorni and/or side dishes, Recipes from outside Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged Anissa Helou, baba ganouj, carrots, chicken with hazelnuts, cous cous, dinners and buget, Fae's Twist and Tango, honey, how to cater for many people, hummus, Middle East cuisine, My Custard Pie, orange blossom water, organic oranges, Persian Rice, rose water, saffron filaments, ztaziki
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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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Seafood Paella
Like so many women who decide to go forth and multiply, there came a point in the life of my friend Nieves Alberruche when she became known, or ‘identifiable’, as the mother of her boys F. and R. at the … Continue reading
Posted in Fish and seafood, Recipes from outside Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged olive oil, prawn stock, prawns, saffron, seafood paella, venus clams
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Food that gets ‘blown’ into deliciousness – the suave soufflé
The poor soufflé is saddled with a bad reputation for being difficult to make. I would say that a superb soufflé might be arduous to produce but that an ordinary, jolly good one is easy peasy and should definitely be … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and plants, Recipes from outside Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged pumkin, roux, soufflé, squash
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Duck for Sunday’s roast
George Mikes was a Hungarian journalist who came to England and ended up staying and becoming British and writing a series of humorous books, most famous of which, perhaps, was the 1946 “How to be an Alien”, in which he … Continue reading
A grandmother’s rice – Il riso alla persiana
My son who is away at uni asked me to give him the recipe for his favourite rice – the kind his grandmother (my mother) always makes for him. She calls it ‘Riso alla persiana’ meaning Persian-style rice. I’ve watched … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes from outside Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged cardamom, cinnamon stick, clove, peppercorn, rice
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