Tag: Onion
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Bread, Celery and Apple Stuffing
The perfect stuffing for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving has crept up on us with the stealth of a lion stalking its prey. Where does the time rush off to in such a hurry? Sometimes I with I had a brake-pedal so I could slow everything down just a little. If Thanksgiving is launching itself…
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Beef Roast Simmered In Red Wine (Brasato Al Barolo)
Getting ahead of the holiday panic Thanksgiving and Christmas are stealthily creeping up on us, and are about to jump from behind a door and scream, “BOO!!!!”. I thought I’d head them off at the pass and get you thinking about an idea to make for the holidays already, so you won’t be so…
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Stewed Red Cabbage and Apples
Enjoying the food in Munich, Germany Recently, we were lucky to be able to visit the beautiful city of Munich, Germany and took in a visit to Legoland. The Munich part was for the adults in the family and the Legoland part was to convince the younger members of the family to wander…
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Risotto With Pumpkin And Bacon
The story of the ravening monster and the pumpkin This week, I’m starting with a very sad story of emerging life, and sudden loss. I had a pumpkin plant sprouting in my vegetable garden. Every day it unfurled its leaves and grew bigger and longer. Unfortunately, also the weeds around it basked in…
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Root Vegetable and Kale Soup
The joys of scraping ice, cycling in the snow, and kale It’s getting a teensy bit colder….not as cold as it should be at this time of the year, but cold enough to start making soup every now and then. I feel cheated: I’ve only had to scrape ice off my car window…
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Spelt and Chickpea Soup
When the cold weather hits, it’s time for soup I think we’ve been picked up by Dorothy’s tornado and transported somewhere not half as interesting as Oz. We live in a place where it hardly ever rains, until a couple of weeks ago. It started and pretty much hasn’t stopped since. My husband…
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Fresh pasta (Maltagliati) with Lentil Sauce
I know that since my post last week on making fresh pasta at home, you’ve all been madly producing kilos and kilos of the stuff. It’s hanging off every hanging surface you have: chairs, clotheslines, broom-handles, and now….what to do with all that bounty?! Just a boring old tomato sauce doesn’t make the…
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Sausage, Spinach and Beer Risotto
Risotto with a difference! This risotto with sausages and spinach has an extra special guest hitching along for the ride. Instead of using the usual wine to make the risotto, you actually use beer. It gives the risotto an extra depth of taste, especially if you pair it with good pork sausages. I…
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Beef And Carrot Stew (Spezzatino )
With the nights getting colder, beef stew is very welcoming Winter’s rolling in. There’s frost on the grass in the mornings and ice on the car windows. Though, luckily where I live (at least in my opinion!), the temperature then rises to about 15 to 20 degrees C or so during the day.…
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Rolatine (Bianca’s Stuffed Beef Rolls)
Why you should never volunteer for a school camp Normally, I would start a recipe post with a photo of the “dish of the day”, in this case “rolatine” that I am about to rave on about, but today, I’m starting with a photo taken of a beach just before the rain started.…
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Pasta al Ragù (Pasta With Meat Sauce)
Every now and then when I’m feeling especially energetic, I make a big batch of ragù and then freeze it in portions so that I have a impressive tasting, good-for-you pasta sauce to pull out of the freezer at the last minute if we have unexpected guests, or if I just don’t know…
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Triglie alla Livornese (Red Mullet with Tomatoes)
A mullet by any other name tastes the same The fish used in this recipe is a pretty little reddish/pinkish fish is called triglia in Italian and rouget in French. Nice names, aren’t they? Well, do you know what someone way back when decided to call it in English? Red Mullet! What an awful name! I…
