To disclose the vhm shortcut: v is vegetables, h is herbs & m is meat. We are preparing a classic meat loaf w/ lots of vegetables & lots of fresh Mediterranean herbs: a meat loaf you may enjoy hot, warm or cold as well. What do we need?
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…
Shortbread time: we are approaching sweet & savory shortbread today – both linked by the flavours of lemon & thyme. Twice we’ll get these wonderful crumbly texture of shortbread almost melting in our mouths … once together w/ coffee (or espresso!), once w/ wine or long drinks … The procedure doesn’t change: shortbread is shortbread is shortbread …
In one of my last posts I worked with a Hokkaido pumpkin which I baked in the oven with some olive oil and a spice mix on top. Some of the Hokkaido slices I reserved for the next weekend – for a quiche convenient for autumn. So what do we need for this special quiche?
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…
Another day – another approach to one-pot-pasta! Today we are dealing w/ pasta in a thickened mix of fish, tomatoes & onions flavoured w/ thyme. In my oldest Italian pasta cookbook (Vincenzo Buonassisi’s Nudel & Nudel – have a look at the last book on my cookbook page!) there’s a recipe called Tagliatelle Belle Epoque w/ homemade tagliatelle, sole fillets, tomatoes & thyme, onions, cream, brandy … (The recipe says you may substitute plaice for…
Suppose you need a batch of vegetables for a roast or a BBQ or whatever. How to prepare it w/o too much trouble aka effortless? You simply start w/ a casserole packed w/ vegetables like in the photo above. About 30 min later after a oven session … you get a casserole w/ a delicious mix of soft vegetables. How to achieve this? (I think you’ve noticed that I make it short today … It’s…
Pasta & summer: it’s an excellent combination because pasta is an easy dish convenient for all these warm summer nights when sitting outside w/ a glass of wine longing for some easy, but substantial food – which wouldn’t keep you in the kitchen for too long. The spaghetti are coated w/ a blend of fresh crispy lemon flavour, a hot chili impact & a hearty garlic background – the lemon thyme will give it a…
We won’t need so many ingredients: … and pasta – big rigatoni!
It was a very hot summer day … a juicy savoury sandwich with baked apricots seemed a good approach – although you’ll need the oven … Also I decided to add some bits and bobs depending on the stock in my fridge. I made quite a lot of baked apricots & used them for an open sandwich, but most of the rest ended up w/ Greek yoghurt for breakfast … I had about 500 g…
Time for pizza – home-made pizza. Out of the moment I decided on pizza for lunch for the 2 of us relying on whatever I had in my pantry resp. fridge. I hadn’t any pizza pastry coming out of a pizza pastry mix or any prepared pizza out of a chiller cabinet – so I decided to make my own pizza pastry. … & for the filling: So I started … While the pizza pastry…
This photo w/ fresh pasta & my home-made tomato sauce is real & up-to-date w/ this post. It is one of the most trivial photos in the food blogging universe (I think). It is simple: apart from cooking pasta – I always use classic Italian pasta made only from flour (durum wheat) & water – you only need a good tomato sauce & all is fine. A photo presenting the result is always a hit!…