Young red onions from Cavasso have been a nice discovery. Despite living in the same province of Pordenone, I had never heard of this vegetable that until a few years ago they were the exclusive cultivation of kitchen gardens in the foothills of the municipality. Gianna, a friend of my […]
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January
January is always the coldest month Italy. The garden is sad and barren. Fortunately this year, thanks to a mild autumn, there are still berries that contribute a little color such as Callicarpa in my garden. The recipes help us to recover from the days of celebration that took place […]
Cream of Two Celery Soup
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Shrimp with Two Celery
The dish can be presented as an appetizer or as a main course, it depends on the quantity. The doses written here are those of an entree. This is recipe published in the Christmas special of the magazine “A TAVOLA” from 1997. Every so often, when I need to relax, […]
Celery
This vegetable belongs to the Umbelliferae family and is typical of the Mediterranean basin. In ancient Greece it was considered a medicine of such importance as to be considered sacred and represented in coins. The ancient Sicilian town of Selinunte is devoted to celery. In the Odyssey it is said […]
Waldorf Astoria Salad
This recipe is a piece of American history. It was created by Oskar Tschirty, a maitre d’ at the luxurious Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, in 1896. The salad was an immediate success. I tasted it for the first time when my cousin Ricky from Baltimore made it in […]
Christmas Menu
CHRISTMAS MENU 2013 The menu that I propose is very easy and economical and is suitable even for inexperienced people. Overall, apart from the dessert, the menu is light. If you replace the turkey cutlets with the pumpkin or spinach sformato recipes that are already on the blog, the menu […]
Pumpkin Passatelli with Horseradish
This recipe was created by my sister Flavia last Christmas and the whole family loved it. For the traditional components of passatelli, a classic regional cuisine of Emilia-Romagna, she added two typical ingredients of winter, pumpkin and horseradish. These ingredients lighten the dish. For optimum results you must use a […]