Morning Crepes

Morning Crepes

The super healthy easy alternative to dairy, yeast and chemicals breakfast pancakes! (and good, too) Ingredients: 3 eggs 1/2 lt milk (rice milk, skim milk, soy milk also ok) 1 cup flour (quantity depends on type: white or whole) 1 cup chestnut flour cinnamon (optional) little butter, oil or non-stick pan Preparation: I just had…

Cristiana Eggplant Parmigiana
Mackerrel Spread

Mackerrel Spread

This is a good fast fresh seafood appetizer, ideal to precede a spaghetti with clams. Please allow some room and time for correction, as proportions here may vary based on the freshness and intensity of each ingredient Ingredients: 1 small cup ricotta 1 (or 2 if the ricotta is very firm) tablespoonfuls of extra virgin…

Pesto Lasagna

Pesto Lasagna

Green Lasagne (or pesto lasagne) This one is a classic, though we are just posting it today thanks to Chris from Boston College, who reminded us about it. It is a great favorite of mine and all those vegetarian lasagna lovers Ingredients: THERE ARE SEVERAL ALLOWED SHORTCUTS HERE. IF YOU ARE IN A HURRY, TAKE…

Porcini (por-chee-ni) Sauce

Ingredients: For 6 people 4 or 5 porchini mushrooms, nice and firm extra virgin olive oil 4 cloves of garlic 4 cherry tomatoes a handful of “calamintha nepeta”,  a sort of wild mint. (Also effective if you have been bitten by a scorpion…) Preparation: Clean the mushrooms by scraping them with the specific tool, and…

Persimmon Tiramisu

Persimmon Tiramisu

  Total delight! (BUT First, identify a persimmon.) To verify that the fruits are ripe, make sure they are dark orange, shiny and almost trnslucent. Opaque in not good. However, persimmons are almost always picked unripened. To speed the ripening process, put fruits in a brown bag (or wrapped in newspaper) with an apple.Preparation: Soak…

Leeks Frittata

Leeks Frittata

Only 4 simple, genuine ingredients…Tuscan cooking at its top! Ingredients: LEEKS EGGS OLIVE OIL BUTTER PEPPER Preparation: SAUTE LEAKES IN OLIVE OIL AND A LITTLE BIT OF BUTTER, SIMMER UNTIL REALLY SOFT. PEPPER TO TASTE. ADD BEATEN EGGS TO BARELY COVER THE LEAKS. GENTLY RUB WITH WOODEN SPOON  AND LIFT EDGES GENTLY TO ALLOW EGGS…

Fresh Homemade Pasta

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Once you master this recipe, and you have good olive oil and parmigiano in store, fear nothing! Ingredients for 2 people: 1 ORGANIC, free range egg (crucial, for vitamin E) Semolina (that is Durum wheat) flour, ORGANIC (crucial to minimize gluten reactions) However much flour the egg will take (start with 1/2 cup) A…

Butter and Sage Sauce

Butter and Sage Sauce

This is the ideal match for your homemade ravioli Ingredients: UNSALTED BUTTER FRESH SAGE LEAVES PARMIGIANO MILK (OPTIONAL) Preparation: While your ravioli (or other pasta types) are boiling briskly for a few minutes (for specific required cooking  time please see packaging and subtract one minute…), put the butter in a saucepan, and allow to melt…