🍊 I still had a few small blood oranges in my fridge – yay! I love them 🧡 – so I decided to make this quick lunch salad with one of my favourite ingredients of the moment, wild goose pastrami by wildvanwild.nl 🍋 It’s ready in 10 minutes and it’s filling and delicious. You can of course make a pescatarian…
It’s figs season and I’m loving it. Figs, cheese and carbs is a perfect combination, don’t you think? 🙂💚 Btw, why is there no emoji for fig??? Anyway. This time I wanted to test a gluten-free flour I had never tried before. Of course you can use plain flour, if you prefer. You can stick to the same quantities and…
Do you adore September too? It’s the sweetest month of the year: beautiful temperatures, a bit of rain and that nostalgic “I’ve left Summer behind” feeling. I love September, and that’s also because of FIGS! One of my favourite fruits, so tasty and rare because you can eat them only in season.That’s why I eat them as often as I…
I recently received the translated (Dutch) version of this beautiful book by Huw Richards and Sam Cooper and what a joy it was to read it! It is the perfect manual to start your own vegetable garden and enjoy its produce (and beyond, with suggestions on how to forage too) the whole year round, with great instructions on just everything: how to…
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 Super Simple Squash Soup like this is going to be perfect for the cold Autumn and Winter days. It’s made with just four ingredients – onion, garlic, squash or pumpkin and potatoes – and a bit of seasoning. I then pureed it to obtain what we Italians call a vellutata (smooth and “velvety” soup). If you use fresh bay leaves…
This pie is incredibly easy to make and tastes great. The only work that needs to be done is slicing the squash and the potatoes and then assembling the slices in a nice shape, something which is very satisfying for the artistically inclined. 😉 I advise using a mandoline but if you don’t have it, make sure you cut…
Several of my favourite pasta dishes come from Rome (gricia, amatriciana and carbonara), but my favourite of them all is cacio e pepe. Literally: cheese and pepper. So simple and yet so difficult to make! I had to try several times before I could actually prepare it the proper way, without the cheese getting all lumpy and sticky on my plate, but…
This is a very simple yet extremely satisfying pasta dish, ready in max. 15 minutes. I like to make it with spaghettoni (the thicker spaghetti) but you can of course make it with any other long pasta. The anchovy is a great taste enhancer which makes the dish loved also by those who don’t usually appreciate fish. This happens because…
This is the perfect salad for hot Summer days when you don’t feel like cooking, since the veggies – bell peppers and onion – can also be added raw instead of sautéed. I’ve used pearl couscous but you can use the plain one too for another no-cook option since it has to be soaked in hot water, whereas pearl couscous…