Tagliatelle all''uovo

Hand made pasta is not difficult to make. It is really rewarding to make your own pasta and is so tasty. I love any dish made with hand made pasta; ravioli lasagna, tagliolini, cannelloni.
Tagliatelle are large stripe that goes well with sauces such as Bolognese while Tagliolini goes really well with broth.

Ingredients

500 gr flour "oo"
3 eggs

Place the flour on the table with a hole in the middle in which you open the eggs.
Mix all well then work the paste really well until smooth and elastic.
Roll it flat (about 3 mm thick) roll it over like a little sausage and cut it in little slices.
Sprinkle some flour over it and gently open to unravel the tagliatelle.
Cook in plenty of boiling water for only 5 minutes. Pass through a sieve and add sauce of choice.

Goat Cheeses and Grape salad

I love this salad the combination of tangy and sweet is lovely.
Mix lettuce, grapes, goat cheese, chopped walnuts and season with olive oil, salt, pepper and balamic vinegar.

Chocolate and Vanilla Biscuits

Ingredients

250 gr flour
125 gr butter
125 sugar
1 egg
70 gr dark chocolate (70%)
vanilla
pinch of salt


First of all mix the flour and the sugar then the butter, rubbing it in until all nicely mixed then add the egg salt, vanilla. Mix until nice and smooth then add the chopped chocolate and leave to rest in the fridge for an hour.
Take out of the fridge and roll the pastry about 2mm thick. Cut in whatever shape you like and place them in an oven metal tin and cook for about 10 minutes at 160 degree. When ready place them to cool on a metal wire.

torta alla deliziosa

This is a a lemon cake made with lemons zest, juice and limoncello liquor.
It has a very fresh flavour. Close your eyes and you are back into a gozzo bobbing up and down the Amalfitan coast.

Ingredients:

Pan di Spagna ( made as in the cassata recipes or fruit cake in previous post)
Custard Cream (as made for Fruit Cake in previous post)

Mix the cream with limoncello (about a small glass) a couple of spoon of lemon juice and mix well.
Add whipped cream About 5 spoons mixing gently.
Cut the sponge in half and fill with the lemon cream.
Cover with whipped cream and decorate as you like.
Buona!

Biscotti

I am back blogging! I am sure no one noticed I took a break but I feel compelled to announce that I am back! I have decided that after all is fun writing about recipes and food and though I don't want to spend all my time in front of a computer, I could probably spare some of it for this little project.
Anyway I am back with  recipes of humble biscuits.
Biscuits are my new obsession. I love biscuits and I love to accompany my cup with one or two crunchy bits. However I hate the majority of biscuits on sale. They are full of hydroginated fat, which is the worst think to enter your body (and veins) and also they taste quite frankly very badly. The only biscuits I like to buy are quite expensive, (usually the Duchy's chocolate and vanilla ones) and there are only 8 per packet. So in my house they last only for a blink of an eye. I often hide them (yes I do!) until my husband or kids find them and I have to find a new hiding place. So let's say I have run out of hiding places and it's getting boring. It is just easier to make my biscuits , they are delicious and in good quantity to satisfy my greedy lot.



Biscotti Semplici

Ingredienti

250 gr flour
125 gr butter
125 sugar
1 egg
vanilla
pinch of salt


First of all mix the flour and the sugar then the butter, rubbing it in until all nicely mixed then add the egg salt, vanilla. work until nice and smooth and leave to rest in the fridge for an hour.
Take out of the fridge and roll the pastry about 2mm thick. Cut in whatever shape you like and place them in an oven metal tin and cook for about 10 minutes at 160 degree. When ready place them to cool on a metal wire. Scrumptious!

you can choose a heart shape..

Yo can also give biscuits away as a gift. I made the box too. It looks cute, no?

Frittata Di Maccheroni

 

La frittata di maccheroni is a neapolitain dish made with leftover pasta. It is delicious and it is normally made for packed lunches.

My best memories are of eating a nice frittata di maccheroni on the beach after a lovely swim in the sea.

It is a very simple dish and as for many typical neapolitain dish it was born in an attempt not to waste any leftover food. Everything is recycled and made into a even more tasty grab.

Ingredienti

600 gr pasta (any sauce)

150 gr parmesan

2 eggs

salt

pepper

Beat the egss with salt, pepper, and parmesan. Add the pasta to it and mix.

Put a little olive oil in a pan and when really hot add the pasta into it.

Cover with a lid and let cook with a very slow flame. half way through turn it and keep cooking until golden and crunchy.

Lovely!

Multi seed bread

I love making bread. It is time consuming but there is nothing more satisfying than bake your own bread.
I also like to know that I can eat something made with natural ingredients rather than the bread sold in most shops or supermarket, stuffed with chemicals such as flour agents and whatsnot..you name it.
So whenever I have time and feel energetic I always attempt to make my own bread.

Ingredients

 (2 loafs)
200gr strong white flour
200 gr strong wholemeal flour
180 gr multi-seed flour
10gr salt
380 ml water
20gr fresh yeast

Mix flour and yeast then add all the other ingredient and work the dough until nice and smooth..
leave it to raise for an hour in a warm place (such as a cupboard) then shape it into loaf in buttered tins leave it to prove for another hour then put in preheated oven (250c) for about 15-20 minutes).
Take it out of the oven and place it on a rack to cool down.