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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Tal-Lampuki hawn!
Posted in Recipes on Sep 29th, 2010
For those who do not understand Maltese, the title means the fish vendor selling ‘lampuki’ is here. ’Lampuki’ is known as dorado or mahi-mahi and is very popular in the Maltese Islands, especially at this time of year. There are many creative ways to cook this particularly simple and tasty fish. Here’s one of my favourites: Lampuki [...]
Squaquerello
Posted in Recipes, Risotto recipes on Sep 5th, 2010
Squaquerello, Squacquerone?! What on earth is that?! Sometimes, I found this ingredient in Italian recipes and I always wondered what does this funny word stand for. Well, this creamy cheese of the Emilia-Romagna region, believe it or not, it is also available on our supermarket shelves. Not for long, I assume, since many people would [...]
Paccheri?!
Posted in Oven baked recipes, Recipes, Vegetarian recipes on Aug 28th, 2010
For anyone who is wondering what are paccheri these are pasta shapes similar to cannelloni but half their size. They can be stuffed with several types of filling or served with seafood sauces or chunky meat sauces. The following recipe is one of the most traditional for paccheri. Paccheri ricotta & basil Ingredients for 4 [...]
Low calorie pasta
Posted in Recipes on Jun 18th, 2010
An Italian classic, very light, low in calories and deliciously tempting… pasta with rocket and cherry tomatoes. Ingredients for 4 persons: 400gr brown pasta 10 cherry tomatoes bunch of rocket leaves good quality olive oil ricotta salata (can be substituted with parmesan) salt & pepper Bring the water to boil and add some salt, throw [...]
Aubergine & Tomato Towers
Posted in Recipes on May 2nd, 2010
Trying to cut down on calories is not the easiest of tasks for anyone, let alone for a food enthusiast who spends most of the day thinking about recipes to try, food to buy and preparing meals to eat! Ah yes, Summer is approaching and like many I want to lose some weight so now [...]
Thanks to the fine weather of this weekend on Sunday we enjoyed a BBQ at our dear friends in the company of sweet little Carla who is now 1 year old! We had a delicious menu consisting of the following starters: Following we had barbecued Maltese sausages, cotechino and chicken kebabs. As for main course [...]
Fish parmigiana
Posted in Fish recipes, Recipes on Mar 21st, 2010
As we were walking to the car we realized that the other fish shop had just put on display 2 trays of fresh anchovies – cleaned and filleted – a rare sight in Malta! So we immediately made our way to buy them and with only € 6 we had just less than a kilo [...]
It’s Artichoke time!
Posted in Recipes on Feb 10th, 2010
Globe artichokes are easily available at this time of year! This is a diversion from the traditional recipe which is so popular in Malta… that is artichokes filled with tuna, garlic, capers, parsley etc. Ingredients for 4 persons: 8 large globe artichokes 100g sausage meat 100g pancetta (bacon) 2 lemons 2 garlic cloves 1 onion [...]
Aubergines?
Posted in Recipes on Jan 9th, 2010
Was looking in the vegetable compartment and found 2 large aubergines waiting to be grilled and eaten… so I made out the following light and easy recipe! Serves 4 2 large aubergines 1 scamorza affumicata (you can used mozzarella instead) 80gr anchovy fillets 1kg fresh tomatoes basil garlic peperoncino salt & pepper parmesan grated breadcrumbs [...]