The italian yeast I bought turned out to be not exactly what I thought it would be… It’s supposed to be just mixed with the flour and sugar, not with warm water first. So I wasn’t sure what to do. Bakeries in Europe must have some special line on yeast and baking powder because what [...]
Bella and I each stuffed our chicken breasts: hers with fresh mozzarella, basil and garlic; mine with beets, almonds, garlic and sage.
Then we breaded them with leftover whole wheat breadcrumbs, rosemary and polenta, and baked them in lemon juice and broth.
We also revitalized the rice pudding from the other night with a bit more egg [...]
Monday Dinner, made possible by a generous donation of eggs from Giuliana
(after Bella took blueberry muffins over to her)
Lasagna noodles
50 g farina di semola
25 g farina integrale
25 g farina
1 egg, 1 T olive oil, 1 T water
Layer with:
Tomato-Meat sauce (from Saturday)
Ricotta-Garlic-Basil-Red Onion-Egg-Pepper
Sauce
Stracchino
Sauce
zucchini and zucchini flowers stuffed with parmesan
Parmesan
black olives
Bake at 170C for 30 min.
The whole [...]
Or at least that’s what the dictionary says. Muffins are pretty American, about as unlikely a find in Europe as brownies. But fresh blueberries were on sale (99 euro cents for 125 grams!) and I even found Italian-made bran cereal.
The recipe is based on one from epicurious:
Mix together:
1 egg
1/4 c sunflower [...]
The people staying here last month left a bag of potatoes, so of course we must make gnocchi! My grandmother made this for us before I ever saw gnocchi on a menu. The first time I ordered it in a restaurant, I was surprised to see it and said, just like she did, “Gnawkey” — [...]
We arrived in Pieve di Cerreto Thursday evening — too late to go grocery shopping, so we had our usual first dinner at I Macelli. Excellent as always, we sat near a German couple from Erfurt who were camping all over Italy. They came to see the famous bridge and read about the excellent restaurant. [...]
After wandering around the Lucca market in the freezing cold sunshine today, we made dinner at home: tuscan sausage, zucchini, pasta, tomatoes, basil, mozzarella…
After spending a beautiful Friday morning walking all over Venice fresh off the night train, we took the noon train to Florence and arrived home to Pieve di Cerreto Friday evening. All looked good… house still standing, electricity still on (though we discovered today that it must have been out for a [...]
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