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
Tag Archives: MUSSELS
Calamarata pasta with Mussels and Clams – Calamarata di Cozze e Vongole
The name of this type of dry pasta derives directly from its shape, i.e. its resemblance to a squid cut into rings and the word “calamaro” in Italian meaning “squid”. The seafood sauce to dress it is then completely in … Continue reading
Bean Bonanza – Zuppa di fagioli e cozze
Ingredients: fresh borlotti beans, mussels, garlic, olive oil, a sprig of rosemary. I bought fresh borlotti beans at the market. Here they are cooking. I also bought some mussels, called Niedditas, that hail from Sardinia and are supposed to be … Continue reading
A Cautionary Tale of Seafood Gnocchi with Clams and Mussels
Gnocchi presented in either a mussel- or clam sauce topped off with rocket leaves were very popular around Rome during the early nineties. Basically, it was the rocket leaves that were so popular, there was a tendency to strew them … Continue reading
Seafood Cous Cous
Surprisingly, a lot of people I know, including members of my immediate family, do not like cous cous. It doesn’t bear thinking about, does it, I love it! And so I came up with this version, a cous cous bearing … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Basic Techniques, Fish and seafood, Herbs and plants, italian home food, Uncategorized
Tagged basil, fish stock, MUSSELS, prawns, red capsicum, Seafood cous cous, squid
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Adding Courgettes to Mussels – Impepata di Zucchine
I could have spelled that ‘muscles’ instead of ‘mussels’, considering how facetiously I wrote in a previous post about the lack lustre taste of courgettes (zucchini) but I think I have made the point now so … enough is enough. … Continue reading
Posted in Antipasti, Fish and seafood, italian home food
Tagged courgettes, garlic, MUSSELS, pepper, zucchini
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Frozen Fish Dinner
Here are some ideas for a meal based on frozen fish, if and when you don’t have access to good-quality fresh fish. The first thing to do with the frozen fish is to get it to thaw by placing it … Continue reading
Posted in Fish and seafood, Herbs and plants, Uncategorized
Tagged frozen fish, haddock, MUSSELS, octopus, riso venere, scampi
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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
Mussels are even mightier with the addition of Almonds
This is not my recipe … I drew inspiration for it from an Italian TV programme featuring a husband-and-wife pair (Santo and Addolorata) cooking together in their farmhouse ‘Masseria Sciarra’ in Sicily. It is a seafood dish of mussels with … Continue reading
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