Recipes by madonna del piatto
Italy Chef
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spiced persimmon and orange jamspiced persimmon and orange jamtiny organic persimmons from our treesPERSIMMONS. I better hurry up and pick them before the frost makes them burst.Every autumn it’s the same story. We first have a brief spell of leaf glory, when the proverbial Umbrian green turns to golden and red. Then rain comes, more rain than we want. Everything… |
2 votes
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my newest comfort food: gluten free cakemy apple cake made with locally available and naturally gluten free ingredientsThe’re is nothing more comforting that to be included after having been excluded from something, isn’t it? Like when your stomach stops digesting something you have loved all your life and you can’t have it anymore? And then you can have it again!My… |
1 vote
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pasta al forno alla sicilianabaked Sicilian-style pastaSICILIAN PASTA TIMBALE or PASTA INCASCIATA. When it gets as cold as it is now here, I need to dream of the sun. Or of sunny food.This recipe is for those of you who still have summer somewhere, probably very far from here.It’s a vibrant dish, with all the colors and flavors of the Mediterranean. To get it… |
3 votes
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melon mousselimoncello melon moussemy very own light and fruity melon mousseThis dessert is like a bite of summer and I am proud of it as it’s my personal creation. It’s a love story between a limoncello based fruit salad and a delicate panna cotta.RecipeMousse:Soften gelatin in cold water for at least 15 min. Meanwhile, blend the melon and… |
2 votes
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liquore di roseliquore di rosedelicate wild rose petalsROSE LIQUEURIn my previous life I used to trap smells. As a profession.I used to collected the elusive aroma of plants with complicated glass vessels and solvent washes. I used the resulting extracts to test their behavior modifying effects.Capturing scents is science and art at the same time.… |
3 votes
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broccolo romanescobroccolo romanescobroccoli romanesco, a beautiful cousin of cauliflowerROMANESCO BROCCOLI or CORAL BROCCOLI, it is actually a variant form of cauliflower. Awesomely beautiful, it is also a mathematical plant. Its shape is fractal, meaning that each bud is arranged along a logarithmic spiral and each small spiral participates to a… |
5 votes
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no-cook pasta sauce with tuna and cherry tomatoesno-cook pasta sauce with tuna and cherry tomatoesstrozzapreti pasta with tuna, cherry tomatoes, olivesThis pasta is good for:when there is no time to make dinner but you still want real foodthe pantry is empty (or almost)it’s Mondayyou are on low calbefore leaving for holidaysreturning from holidaysunexpected informal dinner… |
1 vote
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cappelletti pasta with kamutcappelletti, winter delight of every Umbrian homeI have been keeping this post for one of those rare days when I have enough time in my hands. I wanted quiet and concentration to explain in sufficient detail what might be one of the best pasta recipes in the world. To tell you that cappelletti, the Umbrian diminuitive version of… |
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spaghetti with salmon and brandyspaghetti with salmon and brandyspaghetti in a light cream and tomato sauce with a dash of brandyI am born in a time – early 60s if you are curious – when food was not too fashionable.I still remember the arrival of cream in my life. My mum did not use cream, she was Sicilian. By her law, a sauce is red and must be made with tomato… |
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“priest chokers” made with farro flour“priest chokers” made with farro flourhere they are, peasant beauties, the stranged named strozzapretiSTROZZAPRETI. Priest stranglers? Isn’t this a crazy name? Sounds like a recipe of the Swedish Chef .The origin of the name is unclear but it is surely evocative of our farmers’ long suffering under centuries of papal domination.… |
2 votes
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