Category: Mat
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Fresh Homemade Summer Sauces
On these hot days of August, my green terrace has become the ideal place to grow lush basil plants and then to pick and collect the leaves for making exquisite pesto sauce. Besides, the more you prune the plants, the more vigorous and verdant they grow. After washing the leaves, I left them to get…
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Let Summer begin!
Solar lights under the sun umbrella. Let’s celebrate the beginning of Summer with a fluffy three layered sponge cake, which I gently whipped and baked. The cake was flavoured with elderflower syrup, filled with vanilla cream and decorated with whipped cream and fresh strawberries on top. Wishing everybody to enjoy a beautiful Summer 😊
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Home made pappardelle and artichokes for the first weekend of June
About 9000 steps to walk to the daily city food market and back to choose the best fresh vegetables and fruits as ingredients for delicious meals to make during the week. Indeed, there I found excellent artichokes, which I used in the dish I’m going to suggest for this first weekend of June. If you…
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Apple pie or rustic cake with tomatoes, leeks and Grana Padano cheese?
The new week started and after work hours it is nice to enjoy an appetizer or a piece of cake in good company. Here I just baked a crisp puff pastry stuffed with leek, zucchini and small cherry tomatoes already sautéed with a knob of butter, a sprinkling of sea salt, black pepper and grana…
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Home made potatoes gnocchi and crisp appetizers on the second of Advent
On the second Sunday of Advent, I enjoyed to make potatoes gnocchi at home, introducing some variations on traditional local recipes. In particular, to the basic mixture for gnocchi (made of excellent red potatoes coming from the mountains of Calabria, one egg and some semolina flour) I added chopped parsley and a generous handful of…
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Linguini pasta, meatballs and sweet peppers sauce
Linguini pasta, meatballs and home-made sweet peppers sauce. Would you call it “a comfort dish”? A drizzle of extravirgin olive oil in a hot pan on the cooker, finely chopped garlic, red onion and sweet “cornetto” peppers, small cubes of tomatoes (one or two tomatoes) and let’s start by sautéing the ingredients just mentioned above…