It’s hard to say which is my favorite time of the year vegetable wise. But spring is just so exciting. Suddenly all this lovely bright green veggies start to turn up again. What you don’t get on the market here are the typically spring veggies…
Wild fennel grows everywhere here in sardinia so I was happy to find a recipe in the fantastic “Made in Italy cook” book from Locatelli that uses wild fennel. 2 tbs sultanas 2 good quality tomatoes blanched and peeled 2 tbs pine nuts 12 sardine…
To prepare the vongole let them sit in a bowl of salt water 30 min, they will breath and filter the water, releasing any sand they have inside. Rinse in cold water and separate any open ones, they are dead. You can drop every single…
Fry garlic and walnuts in olive oil, throw in the chiccorino, stir briefly adding salt and freshly ground black pepper, quench with a little fresh lemon juice (alternatively use white wine if you prefer).
Yesterday we had cha ca and fresh spring rolls for dinner, so there was some crab meat left. Something had to be done with it today… Here a pasta with dish I really like and which is very simple. Of course you can do it…
Got some beautiful fresh Calimari from Italy in the Globus store in Zurich and prepared the following dish: Calimari beaten and sautéd in olive oil, garlic, peperoncini for 2 minutes while adding salt, in the end sprinkle with lemon juice. Orechiette with trevisano and rocket…
I tried to make fresh pasta last week. We live next to a pasta manufacturer where I can buy fresh pasta dough ready to fill. I tried a filling of pumpkin, chestnut and oregano. Served only with butter, parmesan and black pepper. It turned out…
A simple and very nice pasta dish adapted from the river cafe pocket cook book recipe. Mix 100 ml double cream with the zest of 2 lemons and the juice of one. Wash and cut off the fig stalks and cut into quarters. While cooking…
The menu tonight was a tomato soup homemade gnocchi alla burro e salvia and baked ricotta. The gnocchi turned out very nice but unfortunately we dropped 1/3 of them (together with a bowl of water…)
