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Campanelle with aubergines, zucchini and feta

Thursday, April 17, 2008

I found this Greek, traditionally made pasta and I am a sucker for nice packaging so I bought it. I also thought, let’s try it and see if we like it for the deli. I decided to prepare it with aubergines, zucchini and feta cheese. It’s not a fancy recipe, but it is really tasty [...]

Ravioli with asparagus

Thursday, April 20, 2006

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"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 [...]

The Princess and the Pea

Thursday, April 20, 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 [...]

Pasta Power

Monday, March 20, 2006

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“Life is a combination of magic and pasta." Federico Fellini My favourite scene from my favourite movie Lost in Translation, is the one where Bob (Bill Murray) realizes that the situation with his wife is rather irreversible and tries to tell her so on the phone, while he is soaking in the jacuzzi of the Japanese [...]