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Pasta alla Carbonara

Some people use spaghetti or bucatini. I do prefer short, raw pasta that collects the bacon pieces and the egg better. This recipe is very simple, but timing is essential when making it. Start by frying some bacon in olive oil. Don’t make it burned. Just cook it for a couple of minutes: it only… Read more »

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Guacamole

Ingredients: A small onion. a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, lemon juice (a couple of tea spoons), one ripe avocado, one cherry tomato. put altogether and mix it all with a blender. don’t forget to dip your nachos in it. enjoy 🙂

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Tomato cheese pie

Living in Italy also means that when it is the right season the vegetables of that season are really cheap. So the other day I bought 10 kilo of tomatoes for 4 euro. So I went looking online for recipes, this is one of them. 6 plum tomatoes cut in thick slices 1 package of… Read more »

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Falafel

This is how I make them. I add some more vegetables then in the “original” recipe because Luca is not to keen on eating vegetables and he loves eating these. So this way he eats them anyway. For me cooking is a matter of feeling so it is hard to give the exact amounts for… Read more »

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Torta rustica (ie my spinanch and chicory pie)

1 tablespoon of olive oil 1 shallot chopped pinch of chili pepper 150 gram frozen spinach 150 gram frozen chicory 3 eggs 250 ricotta (I used the one from sheep milk) salt and pepper to taste ready made puff pastry (I know i am lazy) baking tin Defrost the spinach and chicory.(I usually defrost it for… Read more »