Well, a fricassea, oh my, what the hell it is? Actually it’s something very simple and very traditional in the Mediterranean cuisine: you can find in Italy, Greece and even France.
8 artichokes
Juice 1 lemon
700 g lamb leg, cut in chunks
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 onion
1 tablespoon flour
Freshly ground pepper
Chopped fresh parsley
Chopped fresh dill
2 eggs
Clean [...]
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Lamb and artichokes fricassea
Pasta with leek, endive and bacon
A few months ago I opened another food blog, in Italian, and I published the recipe that it’s at the base of this pasta. While I was cooking it I though it could have done a perfect side dish, *and* a perfect pasta dish
For 2 people
200 g high quality pasta, short kind
200g diced [...]
Stuffed and roasted guinea fowl
A good stuffed and roasted guinea fowl is something merry and wintery, that will add to your post-holiday dinner a reminder of the late Christmas and New’s year celebrations.
1 guinea fowl (enough for 4 to 6 people)
For the stuffing:
300 g chestnuts, peeled and boiled (our chestnuts were a courtesy of a fellow Italian blogger and [...]
Daring Bakers: pizza
Or better, the best pizza dough I’ve ever made!
As you know, I’m Italian, and for some types of food I’m so snob! One of them is pizza, no wonder! Pizza was invented in my country, and any pizza I ate out of the border of Italy were practicly disgusting! Aka, I’m a food [...]
Raw, part 3: lemon salmon
As my Sorrento Lemons were such an hit with the Daring Baker Challenge Lemon Meringue Pie, I thought to use them to marinate some my salmon too… Well, my husband thought of it…
As simple as sad: thinly slice some salmon fillet and cover it with freshly squeezed lemon juice. Let it marinate for 20-30 minutes.Then [...]
Raw, part 2: chirashi, kind of
Well, the real chirashi is obviously different, better, with more fish…I’ve tried my best with what I had: it!So I used the same thin slices I used for the sushi and instead of doing little balls of the sushi rice, I put everything in a bowl, cover it with the fish and sprinkled it with [...]
Raw, part 1: sushi, kind of
A short note on this raw posts: as you read, few days ago I bought a whole salmon of 2 kilos. I processed all that night, but as I’m lazy (and wise), I’ll give slow sips of what I did with it. This doesn’t mean I ate the fish, raw, after 1 week. It only [...]
A nice slice of meat
I know: I’m neglecting this blog… I miss it!I miss to have enough time and organization to blog at least three times a week…But please: do not abandon me!!!!!
To prove you I’m alive (besides my flickr pictures!!!), kind of, here it’s one of our latest luch: a very nice slice of meat… [...]
My new belle
Few weeks ago was my birthday (for some insight of the crazy week-end we had, you can check out Robyn’s pictures: she was visiting with some friends! And we had tons of fun!).I received some presents (well, better to, as I cooked dinner for 20 of my closest friends!!!): some teas, delicious lip balms and [...]
Guinness chicken
Ireland.My first encounter with an English spoken country was Ireland, in 1992.And it was even my first vacations with friends, without my parents. It was one of the most amazing experiences I ever had: being a teenager, in a foreign country, in one of the most amazing and lively European capitals, very different from now [...]
