This is one of those easy, weekday dinners. When you come home tired and crave a warm, comforting meal, but at the same time you want it to be at least a bit healthy. It takes literally 10 minutes to do the sauce, so make sure to start with cooking the pasta, then both the
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Pasta salad is not may favorite dish. Cold pasta and some leftovers or canned vegetables does not sound exciting. This is a different take (inspired by bcommebon blog recipe), more elegant, with a more developed taste. Sweet roasted peppers with a hint of sriracha and a perfectly cooked pacceri pasta make this a wonderful start
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I first tried these on the way to a skiing holiday, when we stopped for the night at a small hotel in Switzerland. Hotel – Ristorante Baldi. The hotel was ok, clean and close to the motorway, so it was really all that we needed at that time. The fact that it was family-run gave
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A beautiful cheesy sauce which works great with pasta. Invented by an Italian restaurateur (named Alfredo of course) consisted only of Parmesan and butter, then upgraded in the US with cream and garlic.  Yummie. You can add  fried chicken to it to make it a more complete meal. Some add broccoli, but I don’t believe
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It’s only June so I was not yet expecting to find real mushrooms at the grocery store, I would think it will be all about asparagus and young carrots, maybe the figues would arrive soon, but I came across chantrelles and I could not resist. I called chantrelle ‘real’ as opposed to Portobello mushrooms that
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