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Super fast Spinach Sedanini

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:27:31 +0100

I love spinach especially with parmiggiano and other cheese. So one day I tried this wery simple pasta.
While waithing for the pasta to cook. Wash the spinach and cut them really small (you can also use frozen ones and you can cut them while they are still frozen if you have…

Tagliatelle with sausage

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:45:40 +0100

THis recipe was told me by my former neighbour. It was an old lady that made me always hand made tagliatelle if I did her a favor like bringing up the groceries.

While you are waiting for the pasta to cook take the skin of the sausages, put them in…

Speghetti with tuna (Bologna)

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:13:26 +0100

This pasta was sold to me as a thipical pasta for the thursday eve dish to prepare your self to the friday fasting. It is wery simple and really tasty.
While you are cooking the pasta you prepare the sauce.Cut the onion in thin slices, and put it in a pot…

Pasta alla crudaiola

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:04:39 +0100

This is my Summer Favorite. You must have some really good and ripe tomato to do this recipe and the best ones I think are the Camone variety: they come from Sardegna and are really juicy and sweet. But you can also use Sanmarzano or as they call them in…

Refresching Rice Salad

Tue, 26 May 2009 09:38:03 +0100

This is a summer special! It is a little bit of work to do it but you can do allot and use it for a few days.

Cut all the vegetables in slices and grill them. Once grilled let them cool off and cut in smaller pieces.
Grill the…

Fettuccine al tonno e limone

Mon, 25 May 2009 05:20:13 +0100

Summer has come and here in Bologna it is very hot now. So now starts the season of the refreshing foods.

Lets start with a really simple and fast one, perfect to do when it is to hot to think about cooking. it takes only 15 minutes!

Put…

Bavarian Risotto

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:09:46 +0100

This recipe is not Bavarian. I made up the name and the recipe. But the ingredients could remember Bavaria and the taste would be good for our German Pope.

It is really simple. Cut the leek in slices. Stir fry it with half of the butter. Once it is…

Sauce for Asparagus (Bozner sose)

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:52:06 +0100

Easter is arriving and before or during easter here in north of Italy you will find the first asparagus to buy. I normally prefer to use the white ones but they are more expensive and harder to find. The best withe ones you can buy come from the north east…

Spinach Spätzle

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:09:35 +0100

This is the favorite dish from my childhood. Even if it was green i loved it always.
This is a southtirol spacial.

First cook the spinaches some time before to give them the time to cool off.
Chop them in small pieces. Keep the water of the spinaches.

Ragù

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:12:48 +0100

Ragù is a sauce to use in different ways. It can be used to make pasta or lasagne and is part of the internationally known spaghetti alla bolognese.
I live near Bologna and nobody here calls the spaghetti alla bolognese tis way. They say with ragù.
If you look in…

Mezze maniche with artichokes and calamari

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:40:36 +0100

Make boil 5 liters of water.

Clean the artichokes and the calamari. From the artichokes I normally use also the stalk.

Put half of the olive oil extravergine in a pan, add the artichokes and the garlic. Stir fry until the artichokes are almost crispy.

Add…

Butternut Squash Risotto

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:43:08 +0100

I have seen that there is already a similar recipe for this risotto but the method and some of the ingredients are different.

Clean the squash from skin and seeds. Cut it in small cubes and put it in a pot. Add the onion finely cut and the olive…

Orecchiette with cime di rapa

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:08:34 +0100

This is another winter special. Cime di rapa grow from November to March. They are not easy to find even for me in northern Italy at least if you search for the original ones.
If you do not find them you can use friarielli (a version from Napoli with…

Vermicelli with fresh olives

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:03:55 +0100

This is one of my preferred season specials. The real deal of this recipe is that you can eat it just for a few weeks in the year and November is the time, at least in this part of the globe.

Make boil 5 liter of water.
While…

Spaghetti all'Amatriciana (red)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:17:21 +0100

Cut the guanciale in a julienne art quite thick.

Stir fry it with the olive oil until the fat part becomes withe.

Add the tomato and let it cook at medium heat for 15 minutes.

Mean while boil 5 liters of water put 1 tea…