Tag: Parmesan cheese
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Pasta With Zucchini And Gorgonzola
How to learn to like blue cheese This recipe comes from the mother of a good friend of ours who originates from Florence in Tuscany. When we all lived in California, Simone used to make us Pasta with zucchini and Gorgonzola cheese whenever we went to dinner at his place, which I was always…
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Salad With Artichokes and Parmesan Cheese
Waiting for artichokes This time of the year is always very exciting. As it starts to get warmer, you see glimpses of the bounty to come when peas, asparagus and even the odd punnet of juicy, exorbitantly expensive strawberries start to appear in the shops. One of my favourite things to eat in…
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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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Summery Rocket Salad
I’m in salad mode right now, as you can see from my pasta salad post last week, and now this rocket salad post this week! The weather’s getting warmer all the time and my tiny tomato plants that my neighbour gave me are starting to actually look as though they’re not going to die, so…
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Pasta Salad To Beat The Heat!
We have pasta for lunch nearly every day. We have to, otherwise we would be disowned from Italian society. It’s one of the rules of holding an Italian passport. In the Summer months, the thought of a hot pasta dish can sometimes feel like a little too much, so we welcome pasta salads!…
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Cellentani with Radicchio, Bacon and Olives
Time to make pasta with some radicchio I’m a little late, but happy New Year to you! Sorry….things got a bit busy over Christmas and New Year so I haven’t had much time to write anything. My blog has been sitting in a corner sulking from all this neglect, so I thought that…
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Celery And Parmesan Cheese Salad
Have you ever had white celery? I hadn’t until I came to Italy for the first time. I’d only ever seen the green stuff, with which I had a very dubious relationship. I don’t like peanut butter, so smothering it in that goop so that I could eat the celery was out of the question,…
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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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Fusilli With Radicchio, Speck And Gorgonzola
I was first introduced to radicchio when I was living in California. I have an Italian friend who comes from the mountainous area in the North-East of Italy where radicchio is grown and used extensively. At the time she was living in a to-die-for apartment on the way up to Coit Tower in…
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Artichoke Flan With Fontina Cheese Sauce
My love-hate affair with artichokes It’s coming into artichoke season! I have a love/hate relationship with artichokes. I love to eat them but hate dealing with them: from the minute I pick them up at the market and they prick me with their nasty thorns, to the time when I’m trying to pull…
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Oven-Roasted Pumpkin (Zucca di Arianna)
The time for roasting pumpkin is here Autumn has started to be weasel its way into my consciousness: suddenly the leaves on the trees are looking slightly brown and the mornings are getting chilly. In Southern France, it still gets hot during the day, so my boys are trying to be all macho…
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Meatballs with Peas (Polpette con Piselli)
This recipe for polpette con piselli (meatballs with peas) is another great classic from my mother-in-law, Bianca. Friends of my husband who grew up eating these often at his parents’ place in Turin have been bugging me to put up this recipe for a while, so here it is! Polpette con piselli a wonderful “make…
