Category: Sauce
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Fresh Homemade Summer Sauces

On these hot days of August, my green terrace has become the ideal place to grow lush basil plants and then to pick and collect the leaves for making exquisite pesto sauce. Besides, the more you prune the plants, the more vigorous and verdant they grow. After washing the leaves, I left them to get…
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Home made pappardelle and artichokes for the first weekend of June

About 9000 steps to walk to the daily city food market and back to choose the best fresh vegetables and fruits as ingredients for delicious meals to make during the week. Indeed, there I found excellent artichokes, which I used in the dish I’m going to suggest for this first weekend of June. If you…
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Veggieburger is served

These vegetable burgers are easy to cook and gain wide approval for their lightness, since it is not necessary to fry them. Any way, they are crisp on their golden surface and soft inside. What is more, you can serve them in home made bread rolls with a sauce prepared with yougurt and herbs and…
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Home made potatoes gnocchi and crisp appetizers on the second of Advent

On the second Sunday of Advent, I enjoyed to make potatoes gnocchi at home, introducing some variations on traditional local recipes. In particular, to the basic mixture for gnocchi (made of excellent red potatoes coming from the mountains of Calabria, one egg and some semolina flour) I added chopped parsley and a generous handful of…
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Linguini pasta, meatballs and sweet peppers sauce

Linguini pasta, meatballs and home-made sweet peppers sauce. Would you call it “a comfort dish”? A drizzle of extravirgin olive oil in a hot pan on the cooker, finely chopped garlic, red onion and sweet “cornetto” peppers, small cubes of tomatoes (one or two tomatoes) and let’s start by sautéing the ingredients just mentioned above…






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