just pasta savoury delights

pasta with peas and mushrooms

In my assembly of cookbooks there is a special book about pasta: Vincenzo Buonassisi’s pasta cookbook (published in the 70s) with lots of pasta recipes. It’s a cookbook without any photos & the recipes are short – reduced to the essentials. Nevertheless it’s a treasury of ideas how to prepare pasta adding vegetables, meat, fish and seafood … (As a rule the recipes start with 500 g pasta as the basis!) Browsing the cookbook I…

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salads savoury delights

green peas & green spinach leaves

It’s mid of November: all over the internet food blogs indulge in Xmas cookies, Xmas cakes, Xmas whatever – Xmas dinner suggestions didn’t surface until now. I’m not so ready for this Xmas business at the moment … I think some fresh & easy to prepare weeknight dinner is also appropriate. I also didn’t start any Xmas baking so far. I’m not in Xmas mood so early in November – although everywhere in food stores…

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