Italian kitchen

Guinea fowl with orange

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These gloomy days make you want to pamper yourself with something good, so today I prepared this delicious orange guinea fowl with a nice side dish of baked red potatoes. Apart from the long cooking time the recipe is very easy and gives great satisfaction because with very few ingredients including seasonal red oranges the result is delicious. The sauce created from oranges and onion gives the meat a sweet sour taste really to be hocked, that’s why I share it immediately! Try to believe! Continua a leggere →

Compote of quince apples and bergamot

Compote of quince apples and bergamot Composta di mele cotogne e bergamotto Compota de manzanas de membrillo y bergamota
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It is officially started the frenzy of the race to the Christmas present! In This long week end of the immaculate we have just finished decorating the house, put lights, make trees and cribs, which here it is! The most predictors have already begun to look for their gifts, but since I know that it can happen to forget someone or to receive an unexpected gift and not get ready something indicated for reciprocate, today I want to leave you an idea, a suggestion, something that You can do it from you and that I am sure will be welcome even in case you want to offer it as a gift. I want to share my recipe of the Compote of quince apples and bergamot, as well as being easy and quick to prepare, I know that it will also be a welcome gift! Why do I know?  Because it has been among all the compotes/jams that I have experienced in recent years, the most successful one! The one that everyone tells me how good that jam was!

My advice is to prepare it for your family and for your friends and to keep some pot decorated to party to offer it as a gift in case of necessity! I’m sure you’re going to make a figure!

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Pasta pears cabbage and porcini mushrooms

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Our vegetable garden (vegetables for all of nettles) continues to give us a lot of vegetables also in winter version, so between cabbage, broccoli and cabbage are always looking for new ways to cook them and make them appetizing. Today’s recipe, pasta pears cabbage and porcini mushrooms, is the appetizing result of one of my usual experiments, tested several times is a condiment for vegetarian pasta (with wanting a vegan option) really to try. We come to the recipe….

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Plumcake yogurt and fruit tatin

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The recipe for this plumcake yogurt and fruit tatin I am going to give you is my workhorse of summer and probably using a different seasonal fruit, will also become that of autumn and winter!

With this light batter, because made with yogurt instead of butter, you can also make delicious muffins. In this case you can put fruit inside the Muffins (adding a little fresh fruit Compote between a spoonful of dough and the other in cups), or if you don’t have fresh fruit, you can also use fruit yogurt and season so! … be creative and create a thousand different versions but always delicious!

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Beef tartare

Tartare di manzo
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Impress your guests by preparing two delicious beef tartare as a real chef is no longer so difficult, in fact it is actually easy fast and secure! It is no longer mandatory to have a butcher and a blast chiller! You may have noticed that recently in refrigerated coop appeared the tartare of beef cream under vacuum, if you haven’t noticed them because they’re delicious!! With these ready-to-use tartare will be a snap to make a great impression and prepare a special lunch or dinner!

This summer I got inspired often by the book “totally raw” which accompanied salt and pepper of August, in fact these two recipes are freely inspired by and modified by that magnificent monographic issue on raw!!

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