Category: sommarrecept
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Fast dish: Spaghetti alla chitarra, tomato sauce and crisp breadcrumbs
A fabulous Sunday at the end of May to confirm the beginning of a new season, which is round the corner. Just back from the sea house, where I enjoyed little time this morning for planning some work and garden activities, here I am in the kitchen for cooking a fast dish that has the…
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Grilled crisp onion: one more delicacy for enjoying Summer and staying light
In the middle of Summer here we are and excellent vegetables, delicacies from local region, are at hand for making simple, fast, light recipes. It is the turn for the sweet red onion from Acquaviva delle Fonti, in the North of Apulia. I found them at the food market, just few steps away from home,…
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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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From the kitchen garden page – Golden tomatoes getting ripe on the balcony
Few days for Summertime and Mother Nature knows it. Herbs, vegetables and season fruits give us vitamines and minerals, which can help us to feel well. Seasonal food like buds, flowers, fruits protect us and prepare our regeneration. Freshness and energy live in the vegetables that are growing at this time of the year and…
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From the Kitchen Garden: Waiting for the new harvest of Datterino tomatoes
We are enjoying beautiful weather in these days and Summer seems to be already here. The week passed quickly. On this Saturday evening, it is amazing to see our small plants of golden “datterino” tomatoes how fast they grow day after day. Tonight, the little corner in the green terrace, which is dedicated to herbs…
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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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A bouquet of Zinnia flowers in bloom for our fresh Summer tastes
It keeps on being so hot in these Summer days and, in the garden, now it is the turn for a bouquet of beautiful zinnias to bloom one after an other. When, in the early morning, zinnias showed their spectacular palette of colors up to the sky, to take pictures of their smooth, shining beauty…
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Summer, the kitchen garden, home produces and small fresh delicacies
Hello, welcome in August! Despite the very high temperatures, I keep on taking care of my kitchen garden early in the morning. At this proper, it is about the same place where I used to play as a little child. At that time, the garden seemed so big to me, it was characterized by green…
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A soft fragrant cake as Summer dessert!
Hello! We are in the heart of Summer and at this time of the year, by visiting our food stores and markets, it is possible to find gorgeous fragrant Williams pears there. This ancient variety is widely known to be excellent for canned or processed uses. So, let’s bake a cake, which has the fresh…
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