Italian Kiwi – Recipes, Travel, and More!
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Sausages Braised in Tomato
What to do when you have too many sausages On Easter Monday we had hoards of friends descending on our garden for an annual Easter Egg Hunt (with chocolate eggs, of course! None of those namby-pamby decorated boiled eggs that have been sitting in the sun for an hour!) and pot-luck lunch. As…
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Fava Bean Spread With Parmesan Shavings
Places that are hard to leave once you stay there a while Too many years ago, we lived in California in our pre-kid era and didn’t appreciate enough how easy it was to go out, like, whenever we felt like it to where-ever we wanted to go at the drop of a…
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Spinach Frittata
What to give to people who hate spinach so that they will eat spinach So, what can you do to get people (especially the young kind!) to eat spinach. Well, I’ll let you in on a secret: this frittata is it, and not only will they eat spinach when it’s hidden in an…
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Pasta With Speck And Zucchini
Finding recipes in Mantova A few years ago, we drove over to Mantova to catch up with some friends of ours from there. Mantova is a beautiful city surrounded by a lake in the North-East of Italy. The buildings and art are amazing, and the food is awesomely good! Just one bite of their pumpkin…
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Chicken Broth with Pasta (Minestrina)
The joys of sick kids Well, I’ve been out-of-order for a couple of weeks, thanks to my eldest son having flu that turned into pneumonia. All of you out there who haven’t had a flu jab yet this year (or the flu) , I really recommend you to go and get one. This…
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How To Cook Pasta Like An Italian
How to cook dried pasta Everyone knows how to cook dried pasta from a packet, right? I don’t mean making it from scratch. I really mean boiling dried pasta. You may be very surprised to learn that it’s a lot more complicated than you think. You would think that nothing could be more simple,…