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: pecorino cheese
Meatballs with Peas – Polpette con Piselli
There is a bit of a wink-wink, friendly, dig-in-the-ribs ‘thing’ going on amongst food bloggers based in Italy (and Rome in particular) as regards the making of meat balls … (or is it just the one word, meataball? Hmmm). ‘Rachel … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Techniques, Herbs and plants, italian home food, Loving the Leftovers, Polpette: Meatballs as well as vegetable crocquettes
Tagged Aphrodite, breadcrumbs, carrot, celery stalk, evoo, frozen peas, minced beef, minced parsely, nutmeg, onion, pecorino cheese, pork jowl, Rachel Roddy, salt and pepper, the Trojan War, tomato sauce, www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/aphrodite.html, www.racheleats.wordpress.com
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Video(s) of the Carbonara in the Making
Some friends on facebook very kindly re-posted my thoughts on what constituted a good, home-made carbonara and I was pleased to see how many comments this drew, many of which were also questions regarding the counter-intuitive tip of cooling the … Continue reading
Parents-in-Law, Recovery and the Importance of a Good Meal – Pasta con carciofi, salsiccia e cipolla
Jokes abound over the relationship between in-laws. And not without cause — family ties can be very frought and difficult indeed even when we are dealing with a situation happier than Romeo and Juliet. Much as we like the idea … Continue reading
Kale Soup and the Sausage
I dedicate this post to Johnny Hepburn of ” feedthepiglet.wordpress.com ” whose take on soup never fails to amaze me as I look on and imagine the layers of taste constituted by him therein. He is a superb soup maker. First, … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and plants, italian home food, Soups, Uncategorized
Tagged kale, lamon beans, pecorino cheese, salt, sausage, soup, toasted bread, www.cantforget.it
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Pasta alla Gricia
It’s lunch time and I decide to make pasta alla Gricia … just ‘because’. It is being unseasonably warm for this time of year but, even so, there is an inescapable feel of Autumn in the air, of days slowing … Continue reading
Sausage and Artichoke Pasta and the Aspirin of Foods
Mirrors, in Feng Shui, have been described as ‘the aspirin for the home’ … apirin is not a life-saving medication but it most definitely helps with a very long list of ailments; and likewise mirrors, though not capable of rectifying … Continue reading
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