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Don't know if this section is ok for this recipe, anyway I cooked them next week and served as appetizers. Pizza Muffins: pizza dough, 1 mozzarella, 2 tomatoes, salt and pepper, anchovies and capers if you like, olive oil and flour. Cut mozzarella and tomatoes into cubes. Keep the pizza dough...

One of my friends just gave me one of his recipes...this a very easy way to prepare ravioli, usign the pasta for lasagne, instead of preparing the dough for ravioli themselves! Here's the recipe (hope to have translated in a correct way!): 1 onions, olive oil, pasta for lasagne, white wine...

I found this recipe some years ago, and this summer I tried several times: very easy and quick! Simona'sKitchen: Zucchine and almonds

Happy new year to everybody, I hope Xmas holidays went ok and Santa brought you wgat you wanted! :lucky::heart::sorcerer: I'm now curious about this: how many of you are going to plan something for S.Valentine's day? Are you going to restaurant or stay at home preparing a lovely dinner...

Pandoro is one of the most famous Xmas cake in Italy. I found this recipe, maybe I'll try it during holydays. For those who are curious and would like to try, too, here's the post with recipe: pandoro

Hi to everybody! I'm used to prepare a nice table for all occasions, expecially Xmas! I'm looking for some new aideas and go around the web to find something on blogs. What are you planning for your Xmas lunch or dinner? Flowers, candels, pines...? May I have some ideas?:cool: Thanx, Simona!

i'd like to do cupcakes, but I'm Italian and have no expirence, so I tried the first recipe I had (one of my friends gave me), but the main problem has been the decoration... which tecnique do you generally use to decorate cupcakes? And: is there a way to prepare the colorings without using...

This is one of my favorites! Chocolate & coconut cake, easy and fast to prepare: 100 gr coconut flour • 125 gr yogurt • 110 gr sugar • 70 gr butter • 3 eggs • 100 gr white flour • 1 baking powder • dark chocolate Melt all the ingredients together adding chocolate at the end. Cook into...

This's one of the recipes I just tried in this period. Easy, tasty and appreciate from guests. Italian version for Mushroom Crostoni (you can also find it on my blog) Here it's: You need 1 bread slice for each, 10 champignon mushrooms, 50 gr taleggio cheese, 20 gr butter, a pinch of paprika...

Hi to everybody! This's one of my favorites! Seafood polenta with ceci. Here it's: seafood, 2 garlic cloves, olive oil, 2 big fresh tomatoes, basil, polenta, boiled ceci, rosmarine. Wash the seafood and cook it into a big sauce pan with olive oil and garlic. After 5 minutes add the tomatoes...

An other recipe from Tuscan tradition: Ingredients x 4 people: 200 gr zucchine, 50 gr sliced almond, 50 gr butter, salt Preparation: Clean zucchine and cut them into slices, then make them boil in water for a few minutes. Then leave them into a dish and prepare the almonds: use a soucepan and...

Ever tried? Ingredients x people: 4 aubergines, 4 cloves garlic, 1 small bunch basil, 2 dessertspoons apple vinegar, half a glass of extra-virgin olive oil, salt, toasted bread slices. Preparation: Wash the aubergine, cut into slices lengthwise, springle with salt and leave to drain...

Just a little information about an Italian ingredient! I know that it can sound silly, but I've read a lot of posts here, and noticed that there's a missunderstood between Parmigiano reggiano cheese and Parmesan. They are NOT the same thing! AT ALL! The original one is PARMIGIANO REGGIANO...

So, 14 february is coming...what's your dinner menu? (...ehm, a part 'after dinner plans' :wink:...!) I think ro have rice for starting, then an 'arrosto' and this delicious cake: Strawberries bavarese Preparation time: 20 minutes minutes Difficulty: low Ingredient x 4-6 people: 250 gr...

I like books a lot, and generally prefer buying cooking books instead of dvd. But, some days ago I went to a bookshop and found that they're selling cookind dvd instead paperbooks. I'm wondering: How can you use a dvd for cooking, if you have no tv in your kitchen??? What do you generally use...

Do you think free cooking lessons on you tube are useful? Does anybody of you ever try? Which is your experience? Thanx, Simona

In this period of the year we use to prepar tipical cakes, such as Frittelle. The recipe is simple, does anyone already tried it? Do you like Frittelle?:chef: Here you are: Ingredients: 200 gr rice, 1/2 liter milk, 2 eggs, 4 yolks, 4 spoons of flour, 30 gr butter, 100 gr raisins, 1/2 glass...

Hi to everybody! I just read some of your 'American typical recipes' and I wonder: When you think about Italy, Tuscany and Italian cooking in general, which are the main cooking recipes that you think of? And, which are the recipes you'd like to learn cooking? Thanx!:chef: Simona!

Well, this's an old Italian recipe and the original one uses VinSanto, instead of Rhum. Anyway, I know that outside Italy it's not so easy to find a good VinSanto without paying for it the same amount we pay for a Gucci handbag! :tongue: So, my version is: 500 gr white flour, 200 gr sugar, 1...

That's the perfect recipe for those occasions that happen suddenly and you've just a few time to organize everything! Here it's: 60 gr white flour, 50 gr grated parmisan cheese, 40 gr butter, some tabasco drops, salt and pepper. Melt the chees with flour and then add butter, the tabasco...