Tag Archive: health

Macedonia

I actually can’t believe that I’ve never ever made such a simple fruit salad (macedonia in Italian) before in my whole life. This week I had a huge surplus of fruit from my… Continue reading →

Sweet Zucchini Salad

Now that I get some delicious lettuce in my Abel & Cole box every Wednesday (thanks to my great mom), I’ve finally started enjoying salad again. But no salad I’ve ever made before has… Continue reading →

Pasta alla Primavera

It’s a lazy summer day, the whole morning was spent on the hot beach and now you’re tired and hungry. But the thought of a heavy pasta is too much to think about,… Continue reading →

Pesto alla Trapanese

For all of you pesto lovers, this is a great variation to the standard pesto alla genovese that we all know and love so dearly. If you feel like pesto, but also feel… Continue reading →

Supplí

It was like love at first taste: as soon as I tried that first supplí over ten years ago, I was in love. My dad used to joke that he would perform random… Continue reading →

A Classic Salad

This is perhaps the most basic you can get in a salad, but to be honest, it’s also my favorite salad. Adding anything else to a salad usually just makes it too complicated.… Continue reading →

Spaghetti Aglio Olio e Peperoncino

Ever get home at 4 in the morning, really, really hungry, but way too lazy to make a proper meal – and so resorted to eating all the junk food you could get… Continue reading →

Rigatoni alla Puttanesca

Here’s a classic Italian sauce, the puttanesca. It’s supposed to have anchovies, but to be honest I think it tastes better without them anyway, with a little extra olives and capers instead. It’s… Continue reading →

Potato Baguette

This sounds extremely wierd and incredibly strange, but don’t worry, I promise you it’s a great sandwich that only requires leftovers and takes 2 minutes to prepare. I don’t know what led me… Continue reading →

Patate Arrosto

No one ever really considers potatoes all that exciting, and neither do I – unless they’re patate arrosto (roast potatoes). They’re so easy to prepare it’s ridiculous, and excluding the time it takes… Continue reading →

Caribbean Sugo

An old trick I always used back when I wasn’t vegan and I had to feed a lot of my hungry friends was to make a regular sugo and then make it twice… Continue reading →

Pumpkin and Porcini Risotto

Ever since my siblings and I were kids, this was one of those meals that would make us run down to lunch screaming our heads off in joy. My mum’s been making this… Continue reading →