savoury delights

mashed potatoes? no – it’s mashed pumpkin!

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   Autumn arriving boldly – it’s pumpkin season! Well… the popular hokkaido is available year round by now, however, some species like butternut, the big Halloween pumpkin etc. are only available in autumn until early winter. I think that I posted more than once pumpkin dishes – my favorites for working with are still hokkaido and butternut.   For the record: During my childhood, my teens, my twens… &…

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just pasta savoury delights

eleonora’s pasta all’amatriciana

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   What means all’ amatriciana? Wikipedia says it’s simply pasta w/ tomatoes, bacon & pecorino from the Italian town of Amatrice – made w/ spaghetti. My travel companion wrote that it’s one of the distinguished pasta dishes of Roman cuisine… made w/ bucatini. During our Rome adventure I had bucatini all’ amatriciana for dinner: it was delicious! Back home I decided to give it a try in my kitchen……

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