Tag: Pepper
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Eight Tips To Make A Perfect Zucchini Frittata
Zucchini or courgette, the frittata tastes good with either name So, do you call these long green vegetables zucchini or courgettes? After living in various English-speaking countries where each country uses slightly different words, I’ve forgotten who calls them zucchini and who calls them courgettes. Anyway, whatever they’re called, thanks to the Summer,…
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Red Pepper Flan with Anchovy Sauce
Excuses and Anchovies I know it’s been quiet for a couple of weeks. Sorry about that. Thanks to two weeks of school holidays in which there were sick kids, one after the other, just to make sure we spent the whole first week at home, then a week of holidays in Italy, I…
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Spinach and Ricotta Self-Crusting Mini-Quiches
Even spinach haters like these Spinach is one of those poor maligned vegetables that everyone loves to hate, but happily eats when it’s mixed in with other ingredients, such as eggs or cheese. Even my kids, who vow and declare that they detest spinach, gobble it up when it’s “hidden”. I put…
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Zucchini and Spring Onion Fritters
What to do with all those zucchini Zucchini, zucchini everywhere and not a recipe in sight……or is there? My kids and I grew zucchini plants from seed this year. They’ve taken a while as the weather’s been all over the place, acting like a teenage girl who doesn’t know what to wear on…
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Risotto With Shrimps, Peas and Saffron
I found some fresh peas in the supermarket the other day and decided that I needed to eat them immediately, if not sooner……but how to have them? My mind worked furiously….hmmm…I suddenly remembered the kids were at the canteen at school this lunchtime, so they wouldn’t be home to complain about eating…
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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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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…
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Penne Pasta With Mozzarella And Fresh Tomatoes
It’s taken a long time, but Summer has finely showed up. To make up for being late, it’s decided to blast us with the normal sun, plus the heat it didn’t get around to sending last month: two Summer days at the speed of one! It’s too hot to really cook anything much. …
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Fonduta (Italy’s Version of Cheese Fondue)
Italy’s delicious version of cheese fondue “Enough already!!!”, I hear you screaming. “We can’t take any more of your cheese recipes!!!” Well, come on now….just one more……OK….honestly, why there’s yet another cheese post is because I had to use up the fridge-full of cheese I got from Italy last time we were there…
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Broccoli and Spinach Flan
Green makes you grow muscles This is a broccoli dish that even all those broccoli-haters out there love (well at least are prepared to eat under coercion). I can attest to this through vigorous scientific “blind” taste tests….i.e.. not telling my broccoli-disparaging husband and kids what was in the flan. I only told…
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Spaghetti alla Carbonara: Do As The Romans Do
The first time I had “real” spaghetti alla carbonara was when we went to Rome, the birthplace of the dish, a few years ago. I never dreamed that it could be so very good! In Rome the dish is made with “guanciale” (smoked pig’s cheek), which is very difficult to find anywhere else.…
