settembre 30, 2009
If you’d see me now, you could think I’ve always loved eating, everything and in large quantity. Actually, I was a bit of a picky child, especially for vegetables. I used to eat green salad, seasoned with lemon juice, olive oil and salt, nothing more nothing less, and potatoes, boiled, fried, baked, mashed… but just potatoes. Besides salad and potatoes, there were Grandma’s French Beans: they were tasteful, delicious and far away from the usual vegetables!
Grandma has told me this was the same method that was used by my grand grandma. When I was young, such as with guinea – fowl, I thought it was really hard to make this recipe. Maybe because the only time I tried to make stewed French beans I forgot olive oil and bacon…Very light indeed, but not so tasteful! Read the rest of this entry »
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settembre 25, 2009
It was such a long time since I last made muffins, so today I’m offering you this recipe, really really rapid and easy… I’m still in trouble with my web connection, both in the office and at home, so this is the best I can do now!
The recipe is easy to write down and to make: I was feeling like sweet, and in half an hour I was baking light muffins, with a red heart made of raspberry jam, enriched by muesli and vanilla.
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settembre 24, 2009
I still remember the first time I tasted this dish. How to forget that moment? I was in bed, ill, I was suffering from mumps and it was just 2 days after my final examination at elementary school.
We were momentarily living with Grandma Menna, since there were restoration works in our house.
I was in dad’s old bedroom, immersed in Mickey Mouse comics and Gaia Junior books, my great passions at that time.
At lunch time Grandma came upstairs bringing a dish with a guinea-fowl leg and tons of sauce, thick, tasteful and delicious. Trying and trying, I couldn’t manage to gulp down a single morsel, but bit by bit I finished all the sauce, dipping my little fingers into that creamy dressing.
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settembre 21, 2009
This is a quick appetizer I made yesterday to celebrate Grandma’s birthday (she was born on the 16th, but are taking it easy!). It’s a fusion finger food: on one hand, you have a tuscan background, due to chickpeas flavoured with garlic and rosmary, on the other hand you have an oriental hint, thanks to cumin and tahine, which reminds you of Indian side dishes.
I used an home made bread to serve, flavoured with cumin, sesame seeds, poppy seeds and pine seeds.
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settembre 18, 2009
September, grape harves time. Now we don’t have a vineyard, just a little plot of land with some olive trees and a piece of vegetable garden. But several years ago, when my family was made up by farm labourers, it was different: there were many olive trees, a well provided vegetable garden, cows to work the fields, Bianchina the goat for the milk, Gilda the horse, with a nice gig to go to town, hens and chickens, rabbits and a vineyard.
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