I need to sleep! Yesterday night I was invited to this Food and Drink award party organized by That’s Shanghai with open bar…I didn’t drink much but my bf really abused the free drinks and by the time we got home he was ballistic drunk , drunk beyond his own ability of being drunk…totally wasted…so [...]
I am trying to learn some basic photography cause it seems like cooking and photography go together. All the cooking blogs I have checked recently have beautiful, perfect, spectacular pictures…mine suck! They do, the colors are all washed out, they are either over exposed or under exposed…I’m a disaster! and I apologize for all the [...]
On line there are lots of different recipes for making cordon blue, most of them call for chicken breast cut into thin slices…I’ve tried a bunch of different ways and after years…(yes you heard me) of trying and trying I’ve decided that this is the best recipe for making cordon blue!
You can either fry them [...]
It’s hot, it’s HOT………! I can barely keep my cloth on with this heat. When the Summer kicks in, like it has done in the last weeks, I feel the need to eat something refreshing and light! Also, since only thinking about walking from the subway to the supermarket makes me sweat, I need to [...]
To make this dish it will literally take you 15 minutes…mmmmmmm……ok 18…! It is a perfect solution for a quick dinner after a long and tiring day at work or if your children and husband are screaming and crying for food.
All you need is pork chops, lemons, olive oil, rosemary and some flour. You can [...]
This is my grandma recipe for the meat polpettone.
Polpettone is like a big, huge, meat ball filled with cheese, ham and hard boiled eggs. It can be baked in the oven or cooked with olive oil and white wine in a skillet. Either way it is delicious!
I made it last night for dinner and we [...]
Mmmmm, can you smell it? This delicious rosemary aroma? It’s my beef stew with potatos dish. Isn’t it delicious?
After all these posts about sweets, cookies and dessert we really needed something salty one, didn’t we?
If you liked my Spezzatino recipe, you are going to love this one
Ingredients (for 2 servings):
300 g beef (cut [...]
This is what I define an Italian style hamburger, cause it looks like an hamburger but in practice is quite different from it for way of preparing and cooking. In Italian we call it a “schiacciatina” which means “pressed meat”. I think it is pretty tasty and softer than traditional American burgers. I am not [...]
This is one of the most famous dish of Salento. Its’ name come from the pignata, a pot made of cast iron where people use to cook the octopus and then serve it. It looks like this
Clearly I didn’t have one here in Shanghai, but I have replaced it (as many people do nowadays in [...]
Looking for an easy but tasty recipe for tonight dinner? Here it is! This pizzaiola chicken is a delicious dish that wont eat up much of your time.
I’ve learned this recipe from my aunt, who is from Napoli, and who make the best Pizzaiola Chicken I have ever had. You guys should definitely try this [...]
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