just pasta savoury delights

pasta all’amatriciana – my way

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 … (after consulting my cookbooks …) Starting…

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just pasta savoury delights

a book, grey sky & tagliatelle gratin

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. Let’s start w/ the obvious! Today is one of these grey days – last week we had lots of them w/ lots of rain. Now it’s getting really cold. During the coming days it’ll be below zero day & night, however, almost no snow. (This – the lack of snow – may be horrible if you crave for a walk in crisp white snow surrounded by snow filled trees…

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