Ingredients for the Guacamole: Avocado Mix of spices Lime Juice Coriander Just work the avocado till you get a cream (a fork is best). Add lime juice, fresh coriander and the spices and mix. Ready! Fajitas: Tortillas (to be warmed up as per instructions) Chicken Mushrooms Onions Zucchini or any other vegetable (normally bell peppers…
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Penne with Asparagus
I love green asparagus and it is finally season. Today Penne with green asparagus. Ingredients: Penne ( I prefer Garofalo , from Gragnano, south of Napoli) Asparagus A tin of chopped tomatos 4 Anchovies Garlic Few drops of Cream Prepare the asparagus. Cut the tips and then cut the rest in slices. Put a…
Special empanadas
A little special empanadas with blue cheese and beef Ingredients 1 package of Puff Pastry 2 small onions 2 garlic cloves 200 gr minced beef meat 100ml beef stock 100 gr blue cheese 1 egg olive oil salt pepper thymian Chop finely the garlic and cut the onions in fin strips. Heat some oil…
Melanzane alla parmigiana
This is one of my favourite italian recipes, not well known outside Italy. You will not even notice it is a vegetarian dish. You can use different cheeses. For example for the Mozzarella you can use as well Mozzarella di bufala, Smoked Mozzarella, Provola, Smoked Provola, Scamorza or Smoked Scamorza. This is according to your taste…
Berry Ice Cream 2
As it is the right season, here again another version of Berry Ice Cream. This time it is blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. I freeze the fruits when I buy them to keep them nice till I have time to prepare the ice cream. Put all the fruits in the blender (I have a very strong…
Yakisoba
Tonight is yakisoba time! Chicken, Chinese Cabbage, Noodle, Egg, Bonito Flakes, Nori powder (Aonori) and Yakisoba sauce. Yummy!!! And it was not me cooking 😉
Berry ice cream
Last year i bought a simple ice cream machine (40 chf). Since then we are experimenting. Fruits, cream and a little sugar. This time raspberries, blueberries and gooseberries, delicious.
Zucchini ligury style
Zucchini, a little bit of old bread, some spoons of milk, tuna, anchovies, capers, parmesan, an egg, onions and pine nuts. One of my favourite Zucchini recipe. Ingredients: 4 medium sized zucchini 1 old small bread 50 gr Parmesan Pepper 80 gr Tuna net weight 1 onion 1 spoon capers 1 spoon Marjoram 2 anchovies…
Home made burger
Heavy rain outside, right side for a homemade burger…. Mushrooms, onions, fried egg, HP spicy sauce, tabasco, cheese and a “Simmentaler” patty. Simmental is a valley near Bern that is home to a very good cattle race. Enjoy!
Roast Beef in Salt Crust
This is absolutely my favourite Roast Beef recipe, simple but effective. Buy a nice piece of beef, entrecôte cut. Make sure that it is quite high and that the fat layer on top is still there. Normally you would take around 1- 1.2 kg for 4 people. Detach the fat layer but leave it on…
The epicurean kitten 