Tag: Tomatoes

Ricotta cheese gnocchi with tomatoes, dry-cured ham and sage

Ricotta cheese gnocchi with tomatoes, dry-cured ham and sage

No time for thinking about calories or diet… on Sunday! We should only enjoy the day and have a good meal, so today we will have ricotta cheese gnocchi with tomatoes, dry-cured ham and sage! It is a quick recipe, so it’s perfect for Sundays, 

Margherita pizza: the most known pizza worldwide

Margherita pizza: the most known pizza worldwide

Monday is pizza time at home. It’s quite a tradition, right now 😀 We start with the most known pizza worldwide: the margherita pizza. It’s easy to prepare. It requires only two ingredients or three, if you want to add basil (I didn’t use it 

Smashed roasted potatoes with tomato and onion

Smashed roasted potatoes with tomato and onion

A new way to cook one of my favourite vegetables: smashed roasted potatoes!! I love potatoes. I bake them, steam them, sauté or fry them. I serve them with meat, fish, onions, peppers or simply on their own. You can cook them in every possible 

Sabbazza sauce: my first culinary invention

Sabbazza sauce: my first culinary invention

Have you ever heard about the Sabbazza sauce? No? Of corse, you haven’t! 😀 I invented it! And now I will tell you how. Parsley used to be one of the few forbidden ingredients in my kitchen! Why? Because my partner was selectively intolerant to parsley. 

Eggplant rolls with stracchino cheese

Eggplant rolls with stracchino cheese

I finally found the time to prepare some eggplant rolls with stracchino!! It’s summer, it’s eggplant season and I found a very good stracchino cheese, at last! I love eggplants for their taste and because they are so versatile vegetables. You can prepare a lot 

Spaghetti with tomatoes and basil

Spaghetti with tomatoes and basil

Spaghetti with tomatoes and basil is one of the most traditional Italian dishes. The main ingredients are definitely typical Italian products and they represent the colours of the Italian flag: basil is green, pasta is white and tomatoes are red. 😉 Have you ever thought 

A Spanish recipe: gazpacho Andaluz

A Spanish recipe: gazpacho Andaluz

I had a relatively bad experience with this Spanish recipe: the gazpacho Andaluz. But it was my fault. The dish tasted very good by itself. I only ordered it in the wrong day. We were in one of our favourite Spanish restaurant, or better, an 

Zucchini noodles with cherry tomatoes and olives

Zucchini noodles with cherry tomatoes and olives

This is one of those recipes that I “created”, fell in love with, then I discovered it was a worldwide famous dish! 😀 For me, it was a revelation!! I love raw zucchini noodles (you can also call them zoodles): they are so crunchy and