My Home Food That’s Amore- Arrivederci – Continue to Read my recipes on My New Blog
- Frascati Mutton Stew – Spezzatino di Castrato e Piselli al Frascati DOCG
- Baked Cauliflower and Potato Patties
- Birthdays and The Little Things That Please Us
- Quiche Frascataine
- Risotto alla Carbonara
- A Garland of Potatoes and Vegetables and a Good Bit of Scraping
- A Craving for Sartù – Using Leftovers Backwards
- Meatballs with Peas – Polpette con Piselli
- Rice and Lentil Fritters – Loving the Leftovers
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Tongue in chic and Salsa Verde
This is the last post for this month which was dedicated to beautiful catastrophes of the Zorba kind that can happen even in the most professional of kitchens. Today’s catastrophic element is the way I went about making ‘salsa verde’ to accompany boiled tongue. I … Continue reading
On a Roll (Part 2) – Stove Braised Lemon Veal
Part two of the tale of what befell yon blogger in part 1. This is all about how to make a veal roast in a pan on the stove top. The reason I made this veal roast is because it … Continue reading
On a roll – Oven Baked Veal Pouch Dinner (Part 1)
On February 3rd, the beginning of the Chinese new year, our friend Elena who has been working with us for almost ten years received formal confirmation that she was indeed pregnant and we said we would organise a dinner to celebrate this … Continue reading
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Pasta e Ceci
The thing about home cooking is that sometimes one has to cook in other people’s homes. My mother is quite catastrophic on this account and maintains that it’s better for a blind person to cook in his/her own kitchen … Continue reading
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Hey Mango, Mango Ita-li-ano
Mangoes will forever remain for me an exotic fruit with delicious proustian associations of when I was a child growing up in the Indian Subcontinent. Somehow, it just doesn’t seem ‘right’ to be buying mangoes in Italy. So I really … Continue reading
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Ay ay Popeye! – Pan-cooked Spinach with Garlic and Olive Oil
If you click on the George Mateljan Foundation’s The World’s Healthiest Foods website (www.whfoods.org) … you can learn a lot. There is quite a craze in raw foods at the moment, probably all justified too, but I distinctly remembered reading, when … Continue reading
Ushering in the New Chinese year of the Rabbit
Life is what it is, and ‘It’ is what it is, and there is always much to learn and be grateful for and last year was indeed, from many a point of view, a very important one for me and for … Continue reading
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WHAT TO SEEK IN ZORBA THE GREEK
It is not by coincidence that I called this blog ‘my’ home food …’my’ home is subject to two very great irritants for any self respecting maker of good home-cooked meals: short notice and a short time frame – and … Continue reading
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Squash my heart and hope to pie
A squash-based soufflé. It requires: Steamed squash, a little cream to add to a beaten egg, a couple of anchovy fillets, some Taleggio cheese, some grated parmesan cheese, a thinly sliced red onion, some herbs (I used sage leaves), a … Continue reading
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St Valentine and the Marriage of True Minds – A Pseudo Mexican Mole?
So there I am, leafing through some notes and quotes of a very dog-eared exercise book, looking to be inspired by romantic love and the celebration of Saint Valentine’s day. I find myself very drawn to the Persian sultriness of … Continue reading
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Tagged Beef, black pepper, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, cocoa powder, onion, plum tomatoes, spring onions, walnuts
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