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- 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
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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L’Arrabbiata -The Anger Management Pasta (Classic Tomato Sauce, part 4) in a Duet with a Plain Tomato Sauce
I am warning you: this is a bit of a long-winded post. If it’s the recipe you are after, scroll down immediately to where the cooking photos start. …………………. Sunday is a funny kind of day. And yesterday had a … 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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Pasta and Broccoli Soup
This is a traditional soup which may not be very exciting but that’s all right I suppose, because soup isn’t supposed to be ‘exciting’ now, is it? Nourishing, warming, soothing, comforting, healing, filling, satisfying … these are all adjectives that … Continue reading
Posted in italian home food, Primi (first courses - usually a pasta or risotto), Uncategorized
Tagged blanching, broccoli, pasta, pecorino, soup
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Aubergine cutlets – Cotoletta di melanzana al pecorino
I love the word ‘cutlet’, it has such a nice, comforting old-fashioned ring to it. The word is used here, I believe, to remind us that although the cutlet in question is actually made up of a vegetable (the aubergine) … Continue reading
The next-best pesto …
Gareth Food knows his pesto. Indeed, he has been invited to be a judge at the 2012 World Pesto Contest (Campionato Mondiale di Pesto al Mortaio), to be held at the Palazzo Ducale of Genoa on 17 March. When you … Continue reading
Matriciana – Variation number 4
My son came over for a few days during his university’s reading week recently … and a matriciana is what he wanted when I asked him what he would like for lunch the day he was going back. As with … Continue reading
Matriciana – Variation number 3: in memory of Zia Mena
December 2011 This was the month that Aunt Mena died. She was 87 and she was my mother-in-law’s stepsister and what one would call ‘a character’, a spirited woman, much given to outspokenness when she wasn’t playing coy. She was … Continue reading
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
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