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Tag Archives: saffron
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
Seafood Paella
Like so many women who decide to go forth and multiply, there came a point in the life of my friend Nieves Alberruche when she became known, or ‘identifiable’, as the mother of her boys F. and R. at the … Continue reading
Posted in Fish and seafood, Recipes from outside Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged olive oil, prawn stock, prawns, saffron, seafood paella, venus clams
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Soup Series – Salad Soup
The French have their “bon appétit” and the italians have the equivalent “buon appetito – but, aha!, theer is a catch. People who take their good manners seriously in Italy – let’s face it, I speak of those who come … Continue reading
Posted in Primi (first courses - usually a pasta or risotto), Uncategorized
Tagged saffron, salad, soup, turmeric
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Fishing for compliments part 4 – The sprucing up of cauliflower cheese
As I wrote in part 1 of this fish-centred odyssey, when I was at the fishmonger’s buying the fish, I knew that at home I had ‘a great big leek’ as well as some cauliflower. Now, I know that cauliflower … Continue reading
Posted in Fish and seafood, Secondi (main course, usually meat based), Uncategorized
Tagged cauliflower, cod, saffron
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