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Continue reading →: Orecchiette with Peas and Ricottafrom 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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Continue reading →: Orecchiettefrom 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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Continue reading →: Homemade ricottafrom 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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Continue reading →: Homemade ricotta with seed crackers and honeyfrom 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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Continue reading →: Borlotti bean soup with maltagliatifrom 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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Continue reading →: “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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Continue reading →: Dan’s favorite cream soupHad 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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Continue reading →: *Linguine all’AmalfitanaLinguine with prawns and zucchini from Buon Ricordo: How to Make Your Home a Great Restaurant (page 91) by Armando Percuoco and David Dale Excellent dish. So simple and quick, i.e. cooked in under 10 minutes. Dried linguine, EVOO, zucchini, garlic, prawns, mint and parmesan
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Continue reading →: Calzone(Folded pizza) from Buon Ricordo: How to Make Your Home a Great Restaurant (page 41) by Armando Percuoco and David Dale Mixed reviews on this. My wife love it, I didn’t. Imagine a deep fried cheese thick sliced sandwich. Bread was just flour, water and yeast. Stuffing of ricotta, provolone (substituted…
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Continue reading →: Veggie cassolafrom The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 (page 43) by Dan BuettnerThis is very simple shepherds dish from Talana, Sardinia. Slow roast (150C) for hour: EVOO, Zucchini, Onions (red and white), Red & Yellow capsicum, carrots, eggplant, parsley, Basel, thyme, oregano, bay leaves S &P. Served with…
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