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: December 2012
Christmas Stress: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime – Foodhappiness-athos
Do you remember learning about figures of speech at school: alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, synechdoche, metonymy, litote and the like? One of them was, if you recall, ‘bathos’. Bathos is all about a sudden descent in style, where a situation … Continue reading
Posted in Contorni and/or side dishes, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, Happy New Year, Holiday Season
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My home-made Saffron Risotto – Risotto alla Milanese
For all that Risotto alla Milanese is a classic, I don’t often make it. Indeed, time was when I’d buy a packet of Knorr’s ready-made risotto (in which the rice wasn’t even proper carnaroli or arborio rice, now that I … Continue reading
Involtini di Carne cooked without the benefit of a pressure cooker
I am one of those people who think pressure cookers are brilliant, not uncool at all. I realise, however, that some people do not own a pressure cooker even though they might not think badly of them. So here is … Continue reading
Sausage and spare rib stew for polenta – Polenta con le spuntature
Polenta may not be the most exciting of dishes unless a) you are really hungry and b) you are really cold. It is these two factors that render polenta sublime. Polenta (the corn meal) is similar to bread, rice and … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Techniques, Herbs and plants, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged pecorino, polenta, sausages, slow cooking, spare ribs, tomato sauce
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Mushroom soup for parties
Mushroom soup doesn’t sound particularly enticing for a dinner party except for when the weather is really cold and wet and it takes forever to get warmed up once one has reached the sanctuary of a warm room, away from … Continue reading
Cheese and Polenta Casserole – pasticcio di polenta
Aha! if this photo could speak … notice a glass of martini on the left? I needed one … that’s all I can say. I was getting a trifle flustered, at this stage, about 6 :30 p.m. shall we say, … Continue reading
