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
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A Craving for Sartù – Using Leftovers Backwards
Yesterday I wrote about some leftovers … see photo below:Here are the remains of what had been meatballs cooked in a tomato and pea sauce. These leftovers could have easily been used to coat a lovely plate of pasta but, … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Techniques, italian home food, Loving the Leftovers, Polpette: Meatballs as well as vegetable crocquettes, Primi (first courses - usually a pasta or risotto), Secondi (main course
Tagged breadcrumbs, carnaroli rice, dried porcini mushrooms, eggs, evoo, http://www.leschefsblancs.it/, lard, meatballs, mozzarella, parmesan, peas, pecorino, salame di felino, Sandro Masci, Sartù, tomato sauce
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Sheepish in Meatloaf Battle or … Cottage Pie à l’Italienne
This was sunset over Rome less than two weeks ago, the sky lighting up with crazy colours that just beggared to be oooh and aaahed over. Quite quite stunning, it had me in transports of delight over the wonder that … Continue reading
Liar liar pants on fire – Pasta alla Checca Demographic
It’s that time of year when cooking is a sweaty, sticky, sultry business — or rather, it’s supposed to be sultry business. Instead of which we have been invested, here in Rome, with the kind of Stormy Weather that we … Continue reading
You say ‘potato’, I say ‘patata’ – Tortino di Patate, Prosciutto e Mozzarella
Go on, if you have a moment, click on the link below, featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Astaire singing a famous Gershwin song — but let’s not do as its title suggests … which is : Let’s call it off. … Continue reading
Preparing Courgette Blossoms, Stuffing them and Frying Them
I was so in love with the courgette blossoms I bought one day that I put them inside a vase for a bit. There is something so very jolly about them! Before being eaten, they need to be trimmed a … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Herbs and plants, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged anchovy, basil, courgette blossoms, fiori di zucca, mozzarella, oil, zucchini flowers
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My favourite Batter for Courgette Blossoms
There are as many batters as you care to make. That became my conclusion a few years ago when I was experimenting with batters for courgette blossoms or fiori di zucca as they are called in Italian. Traditionally in Rome, … Continue reading
Aubergine and Mozzarella Sandwiches
Yet another recipe involving frying … I must be obsessed, what can I say. My mother taught me this recipe a few years ago and it immediately met with my high FFF (fried food fanatic) standards. I made it as … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged anchovy fillet, aubergine, basil, eggplant, fried food, mozzarella
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Mozzarella in carrozza, a favourite with any FFF
There are a number of struggles to be stoically borne when practising the noble art of meal preparation; paramount amongst them, to my mind, is the curious fact that fried foods and oven-baked vegetables are somehow more delicious during the … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged anchovy, caprese salad, fried food, mozzarella
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Frese and friselle for another ‘portable’ salad, so ingenious …
When the weather is very hot and the idea of cooking is but a remote universal possibility … it’s a good idea to do something with those large, dry, rock-hard doughnut-shaped breads called ‘frese’ or ‘frise’ or friselle. They are … Continue reading
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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