Last Sunday I invited over some friends for a risotto degustation menu. Since I’ve been to Verona I learnt about this ‘new’ technique of how to cook rice for risotto. Basically this cooking method requires no stirring and thus it is so very easy to cook a risotto menu that it can be done in a relatively short period of time. The preparation [...]
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Posted in Recipes on Oct 3rd, 2010
Following our attendance to the festival of the primi piatti in Foligno last weekend, my Dad stocked our cupboards with different pasta shapes, and wines, cheeses and salumi! We have a good stock which might last till Christmas! Might, I said eh! One of the special pasta we got is this tart-like shaped pasta which today Chris prepared [...]
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Posted in Recipes on Dec 27th, 2009
Been cooking so much over these last 15 days that I don’t know from which recipe to start… moreover I still have to write about the 5 day gastronomic tour in Trentinara which left us with some extra kilos and a delicious taste in our mouths… yet about all this later on! Now have a [...]
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Posted in Recipes on Oct 29th, 2009
Serves 4 250gr cauliflower 200gr broccoli 4 eggs 1 garlic clove 1 onion 200gr mushrooms 120gr cherry tomatoes 50gr pitted black olives 80gr asiago cheese (or mozzarella or parmesan) 100ml fresh cream 2 anchovy fillets parsley marjoram olive oil salt & pepper Cut the cauliflower and broccoli into small florets and place in boiling salter [...]
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