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: January 2012
Fishing for compliments part 3 – pasta with mussels and pecorino cheese
I already wrote a post about making mussels and pecorino cheese (29 September 2011). However, as I wrote at the time, “The photos of this post are very spartan and I never got around to snapping a shot of the … Continue reading
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
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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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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