Category: sommarmat
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Couscous Salad and Nasturtium – Tropaeolum Flowers
When Summer comes, it’s time for fresh salads made of beauty and lightness, which combine healthy goodness in appearance and flavor. Today, we go for a tasteful couscous salad prepared with vegetables and nasturtium flowers. These latters are characterized by sour-spicy flavor and are rich in vitamin C. First of all, chop pieces of zucchini,…
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Home made pasta and cauliflower: culinary delicacies for the Summer table.
Summer is the season for the open air living, but we can also apply this concept by stretching space right in the place where we live, enjoying gardening and our own growings, even in a small verandah, a green terrace or a balcony, throughout the year. So, the outdoor space, no more seen only as…
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Apricot salad to welcome Summer days
Finally Summer arrived and here we have the first tastes of it with some apricots we picked from the tree in our garden. Today, at lunch time, we prepared a fresh, very simple salad with them. First of all, we grilled the apricots and then we added some lettuce, Parma ham, local fresh (primo sale)…
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On Sunday evening: Let’s have pizza for dinner
Time for a good home made just baked pizza. Al fresco dining. Add some fresh leaves of basil. No more, nor less. Perfect. Enjoy the evening, everybody 🙂
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The right time for the Piennolo tomato harvesting
Good news from the kitchen garden! Finally the time for harvesting the cherry “ciliegino” and the small heart-shaped “piennolo” tomatoes arrived. To have 826 gr tomatoes all together in a boat plate in the same morning was like a welcome gift. Both of the two varieties have a sweet taste and they offer a number…
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Work in progress in the kitchen garden, puntarelle chicory and grilled tomatoes.
It was a very long, hot week. In Italy, people just celebrated “Ferragosto” and are still enjoying their holidays. In the meanwhile, the kitchen garden calls for some work in progress.
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