HAPPY NEW YEAR! After the excesses of the festivities, I love to go back to the simple, nourishing meals that are my favourite since I was a child. Like pasta e fagioli, pasta with beans, something my grandma Isa from Veneto – where they call it pasta e fasoi – used to make. It’s a tasty and comforting soup-like dish…
A quick salad for tomato lovers. No quantities, just use what you have. Made with fresh string beans, ripe tomatoes, the few small potatoes I harvested in my mini garden and fiery shallots marinated in lemon juice to remove a bit of their spiciness. The dressing is a mix of – lots of – parsley, some basil, garlic, lemon juice…