Veloce, velocissimo. A delicious pesto sauce that, even though it is easy to prepare, will make your pasta very special. I found this recipe here, and I slightly re-elaborated it, grinding the ingredients coarser and adding a few almond slices to decorate the plate.
Filed under: Main Courses, Pasta, Vegetarian | Tagged: almonds, cherry tomatoes, fettuccine, mandorle, Pasta, pomodori, recipe | 1 Comment »
Transforming beignets, or beignettine al formaggio
What do you do when you try to make beignets for profiteroles and the beignets don’t rise properly? You stuff them with a cream of cheese, sprinkle with paprika and you give them a new name, like… beignettine al formaggio! Savoury beignets is not my invention of course, but this [...]
Filed under: Appetizers, Bakery, Finger food | Tagged: beignets, Cheese, choux, Finger food, formaggio, puff pastry, recipe | Leave a Comment »
Sandwich di patate con scamorza e prosciutto (o bacon)
This preparation can be considered a variant of “jacket potatoes”. Here, the melted smoked mozzarella, the crunchy bacon and the delicate taste and softness of the potatoes, create a very tasty contrast and the thyme adds an interesting refined accent.
Filed under: Salads & Vegetables, Side Dishes | Tagged: mozzarella, patate, potatoes, provola, recipe, thyme, timo | 3 Comments »
The first of many “comforting” warm soups of the coming winter. Minestrone all’Italiana is a healthy, rich and light main course, very easy to prepare. It has a lot of variants in the different Italian regions. This is a very basic and “standard” recipe, I mix it with rice, but you can change the ingredients [...]
Filed under: Main Courses, Rice & Risotto, Vegetarian | Tagged: minestrone, primo, recipe, rice, Vegetarian | Leave a Comment »
A.k.a. A rainy night at Aslam’s Rasoi
When my friends Ruth and Peg (ciao Ruth, ciao Peg) called me and kindly invited me out for a dinner at… something like Aslana, Asim, Alsan, Alisman… given Peg’s excitement, Ruth’s brevity in explanations, Michael’s surgery, Jon’s “am-out-dunno-if-I’ll-come”, a horrible picture painted in my mind… a cloudy, rainy, confused [...]
Filed under: Places | Tagged: cuisine, indian, pakistani, restaurant | 6 Comments »
Penne with eggplants
Don’t say I didn’t advice you with my mania of series. Here another easy and fast recipe for a tasteful pasta.
And, let’s catch this moment to remind a few basic but fundamental rules for a correct pasta cooking. 1) Always remember to save aside some cooking water (to be added in case your [...]
Filed under: Le paste facili, Main Courses, Pasta, Vegetarian | Tagged: easy, eggplant, melanzane, pasta facile, penne, recipe | 2 Comments »
|
