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  • ITALY, Lentils, Pasta

    Pasta butterflies with lentils

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    February 20, 2025
    Pasta butterflies with lentils

    from Modern Italian Food by Stefano de Pieri Great simple comfort food on cold days. I took a short cut and used Barilla Farfalle Pasta rather than making the pasta butterflies.Other Ingrediants: Carrot, onion & celery fried in oil and butter. Very thinly sliced potatoes, lentils, chicken stock and Mutti Passata,…

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  • Basil, Green Beans, ITALY, LIGURIA, Pasta, Potatoes

    Trofie with pesto alla Genovese

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    February 19, 2025
    Trofie with pesto alla Genovese

    from Ostro: The Pleasure That Comes from Slowing Down and Cooking with Simple Ingredients (page 108) by Julia Busuttil Nishimura Trofie: Equal parts semolina flour and 00 flour with some salt. I didn’t have any semolina flour left so I ground semolina down using the Thermomix. The method in this video…

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  • Seafood, THAI

    A hot, fragrant, lively curry (with seafood option)

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    Marcus

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    February 19, 2025
    A hot, fragrant, lively curry (with seafood option)

    from Appetite: So What Do You Want to Eat Today? (page 271) by Nigel Slater.Perhaps not as good as Charmaine Solomon’s, but still very good and better than most Thai restaurants. Curry Paste: substituted citrus leaves for lemon grass, green chillies, garlic, ginger, shallots, coriander leaves, lime zest and juice, Thai…

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  • Pasta, Ricotta

    Orecchiette with Peas and Ricotta

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    February 19, 2025
    Orecchiette with Peas and Ricotta

     from Ostro: The Pleasure That Comes from Slowing Down and Cooking with Simple Ingredients (page 127) by Julia Busuttil Nishimura Ingredients: Orecchiette, pasta water, ricotta, peas, mint and EVOO.A simple and very quick dish (ie after making the ricotta and orecchiette!).

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  • Pasta

    Orecchiette

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    Marcus

    on

    February 19, 2025
    Orecchiette

     from Ostro: The Pleasure That Comes from Slowing Down and Cooking with Simple Ingredients (page 124) by Julia Busuttil Nishimura Ingredients: equal parts 00 flour and semolina flour; salt and lukewarm water. Another simple process, and you don’t need a pasta machine to make them, but it is time consuming. I…

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  • Ricotta

    Homemade ricotta

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    Marcus

    on

    February 19, 2025
    Homemade ricotta

    from Ostro: The Pleasure That Comes from Slowing Down and Cooking with Simple Ingredients (page 24) by Julia Busuttil Nishimura Ingredients: A2 Milk, Pure Cream, Salt, lemon juice, and Bondi Yogurt. A simple process, but it seems to take forever to wait until the milk boils before adding the lemon juice. A…

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  • Canapé/ Starter, Ricotta

    Homemade ricotta with seed crackers and honey

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    Marcus

    on

    February 19, 2025
    Homemade ricotta with seed crackers and honey

    from Ostro: The Pleasure That Comes from Slowing Down and Cooking with Simple Ingredients (page 24) by Julia Busuttil Nishimura Crackers were made of pumpkin seeds, linseeds, sunflower seeds, organic plain flour, baking powder, and sea salt. Served with the yogurt and Beechworth Honey, They tasted great, but the crackers were…

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  • Borlotti beans, Pasta

    Borlotti bean soup with maltagliati

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    on

    February 19, 2025
    Borlotti bean soup with maltagliati

    from Ostro: The Pleasure That Comes from Slowing Down and Cooking with Simple Ingredients (page 98) by Julia Busuttil Nishimura After making this it reminded me of the Pasta butterflies with lentils. The borlotti beans give this soup more of a crunch, however I prefer the elegance of the puy lentils,…

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  • Pasta

    “Incredible one-pot pasta”

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    Marcus

    on

    February 19, 2025
    “Incredible one-pot pasta”

    from Plants-Only Kitchen: Over 70 Delicious, Super-Simple, Powerful and Protein-Packed Recipes for Busy People (page 76) by Gaz Oakley It is hard to beat the simplicity of this dish. Place in all ingredients in large saucepan and cook on low heat until pasta is cooked. Unfortunately the onion wasn’t. I am…

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  • Soups

    Dan’s favorite cream soup

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    Marcus

    on

    February 19, 2025
    Dan’s favorite cream soup

    Had celery and broccoli that needed to be used, and this came up on Eatyourbooks:  “Dan’s favorite cream soup” from The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 (page 259) by Dan Buettner It was a very comforting and quick soup. Ingredients: EVOO, onions, celery, carrots, garlic, tarragon, bay…

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