Do you like gnocchi?
Yesterday Carlo and I made potato gnocchi at home. It isn’t difficult to make gnocchi but if you have no time buy ready-to-cook gnocchi and dress with our tomato-and-meat sauce. It tastes fantastic! Read more about the recipe of mashed potato gnocchi with horse meat sauce. We used horse meat but you can make this [...]
Salt-dried cod recipes
Yesterday evening Carlo and I tested a Sicilian recipe with salt-dried cod: cod in sauce, agghiotta-style. Do you know the word agghiotta? It means a particular cooking technique. Fish is cooked in tomato sauce enriched with onion, celery and green olives. In this recipe other ingredients are added: pine nuts, sultanas, capers and potatoes. It’s [...]
Livewell diet – Wednesday menu
The third day of the diet. Remember “livewell diet“? and the comparison between the British scientists’ proposals and the Mediterranean diet? The challenge is to put together breakfast, lunch and dinner, including snacks, with three specific aims: 1) personal health 2) planet’s health 3) portfolio’s “health” (read: save, because this also makes us feel good [...]
Where and when were ladyfingers born?
Ladyfingers or savoiardi are well known Italian cookies. Do you know where and when were born? They were born in Savoia (Piedmont) in XIV century… Read more on “Savoiardi from Piedmont to Sicily” where we also tell you about the different recipes in Piedmont, Sardinia and Sicily. Greetings from Italy Carlo & Loretta
Livewell diet – Tuesday menu
The second day of the diet. Remember “livewell diet“? and the comparison between the British scientists proposals and the Mediterranean diet? The challenge is to put together breakfast, lunch and dinner, including snacks, with three specific aims: 1) personal health 2) planet’s health 3) portfolio’s “health” (read: save, because this also makes us feel good [...]
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