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Ravioli with asparagus

20. April 2006

"Olive oil? Asparagus? If your mother wasn’t so fancy, we could shop at the gas station like normal people." Homer Simpson That’s a springtime classic. I should have made the ravioli myself. But I wanted this for a picnic and since it wouldn’t be served immediately and would be eaten cold, I thought “why [...]

Portobellos stuffed with cracked wheat

20. April 2006

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Life definitely isn’t too short too stuff a mushroom, especially if it’s a big and juicy portobello mushroom. So I bought some portobellos the other day but didn’t want to just grill them or stuff them with cheeses. I wanted to make a meal out of them, so I decided to stuff them with some [...]

Aubergine thin crust pizza

20. April 2006

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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore This is a thin and crispy dough. It’s my favourite dough because it lets me eat more pizza as I don’t feel full after the first piece. Making the dough is neither difficult nor time consuming. And it’s a shame to just make [...]

The Princess and the Pea

20. April 2006

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“Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.” Hans Christian Andersen – The Princess and the Pea Hilopittes and peas Hilopittes are a kind of noodle. They [...]

Zucchini and tomato tart

5. April 2006

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This is a recipe that combines two or three recipes I found in the New Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas and in the BBC recipes section (sadly, I had done this a long time ago and it seems I have cooked up the exact link). I had bought the Vegetarian Epicure when I was a [...]