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
Tag Archives: salad
Soup Series – Salad Soup
What can be nicer or more welcomed than a nourishing hot soup when the weather is really cold? Repeat: cold. So highly-held in my family’s culinary tradition was the conviction that soup is incomparably good for one, that we had … Continue reading
Posted in Primi (first courses - usually a pasta or risotto), Uncategorized
Tagged saffron, salad, soup, turmeric
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How to imbue a Winter salad with a sultriness that’s all about Summer
Salads spell summer and sultriness. Disappointingly, too many people tend to limit the potential of a salad solely to the health aspect of its ingredients. I get bored with the ‘health’ hype after a while … meaning, please bear with … Continue reading
Posted in Contorni and/or side dishes, Herbs and plants, Uncategorized
Tagged beetroot, olive oil, salad, walnuts
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Fishing for compliments part 2 – Adding fish roe to a caprese salad
Bottarga is the name for the dried and pressed roe pouch of either tuna or grey mullet (sometimes even swordfish), which some people refer to as poor man’s caviar. Quoting wikipedia: “ It is massaged by hand to eliminate air pockets, … Continue reading
Fishing for compliments part 1 – a fish salad as a starter
A few days ago, my husband and I had something cheering to celebrate and, feeling most encouraged by the news we had received, I ventured out to do the shopping for dinner rather more buoyed and upbeat than normal, bearing … Continue reading
Orange and Radicchio salad
Salads have a wonderfully reassuring ring to them for sad people who like to be on a perennial diet. Salads are spoken of in hallowed terms with holier-than-thou endorsement by those who would eat healthily. And salads are anything but a … Continue reading
Posted in Contorni and/or side dishes, Uncategorized
Tagged balsamic vinegar, balsmaic vinegr+, oranges, radicchio, salad
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Mozzarella and Pumpkin — an odd couple?
I remember being gobsmacked when reading about a recipe for a summer dish consisting of mozzarella and melon — it seemed such a risqué combination then to me (we’re talking 2004) whereas now I think of it as old, albeit … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Uncategorized
Tagged antipasto, mozzarella, pumpkin, salad, starter
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