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one-pot-pasta with red peppers

Another recipe I found in Vincenzo Buonassisi’s pasta cookbook (published in the 70s – no longer available…) is the fusion of pasta with lots of peppers, also a very simple recipe for which the cookbook is known. I imagined the process and had the idea of a one-pot-pasta process. (Buonassisi didn’t think of any one-pot-pasta dishes in his cookbook – I think it’s a modern way to cook pasta.) So I made some changes to…

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vegetables & meatballs

I like vegetables roasted on a baking tray in my oven with just some herbs and olive oil. However, when I realized that there wasn’t enough stuff in my fridge for a standard oven session I decided to throw together all the rests in a casserole and to add some canned Italian tomatoes as well as some meatballs. The mix went into the oven and … a delicious dinner dish was ready rather soon. A…

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baked vegetables & an open sandwich

This is the destiny of an open sandwich. On one side there is the bread, on the other side there is a crisp lettuce leave – both encapsulating the inner delicacies of baked vegetables, baked eggs, melted pecorino, crisp arugula in a soft yoghurt cream! At the beginning … … there was this open sandwich where the bread & the yoghurt cream & the arugula is barely visible … Just fold 1 or 2 large…

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lasagna filled w/ vegetables

A crispy piece of lasagna: it’s comfort food from the best! If you like your lasagna less crispy just take it our of the oven some minutes earlier … The mozzarella will be really chewy, however, all is fine under the mozzarella i. e. inside the lasagna! Although we need quite a lot of ingredients it’s a surprisingly easy & fast pasta dish. Let’s start w/ the vegetables … 1st step: preheat the oven to…

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