Recipes

These are the recipes in some kind of order.

Many of them could rest happily in various catagories, the Green bean, roasted onion and parmesan salad for example is hardly surprisingly comfortable in Salads, but tells me he would be just as happy in antipasti or vegetables.

Sorry about the muddle of English and Italian recipe names, thats what happens when you live with an Italian and mix everything up and end up speaking neither language properly

Antipasti, starters and nice little platefuls

• Goats cheese, lentil and pea salad
• Leeks vinaigrette
• Piedmontese peppers
• Sauteed spinach with mushrooms and fried egg on toast
• Grilled zucchini with lemon and basil
• Roasted red peppers with anchovies and olives

Soups and Minestre

• Spinach soup
• Borlotti bean and farro soup
• Hearty squash and cabbage soup stew
• Pancotto or bread soup
• Pasta e fagioli
• Roasted pumpkin soup
• Winter minestrone with farro
• Pasta e ceci
• Roasted carrot soup with cumin and crispy pancetta
• Minestrone
• Zuppa di patate with parmesan toasts

Pasta

• Spaghetti with barely cooked tomato, red onion and basil sauce.
• Spaghetti alla carbonara con le zucchine
• Spaghetti with tomato sauce and ricotta
• Tagliolini cacio e pepe
• Spaghetti alle vongole
• Pasta with broccoli
• Spaghetti burro e parmigiano
• Spaghetti alla Felice
• Mezze maniche with tomatoes, capers, olives, garlic, chilli and rocket
• Fusilli with zucchini and butter
• Spaghetti with braised cavolo nero and ricotta

Rices and other grains

• Farro with beans, caramelized onions and pecorino romano

Fish

• Salt cod, roasted tomatoes and potatoes
• Fishcakes
• Moules mariniere

Veal

• Braised ossobuco

Chicken

• Pollo alla cacciatora
• Roast chicken

Beef

• Braised beef with celeriac mashed potatoes
• meatballs with tomato sauce

Rabbit

• Rabbit braised in cider
• Coniglio alla cacciatora or Rabbit hunters style

Pork

• Sausages with mash and onion gravy
• Boiled ham with carrots and parsley sauce
• slow roasted pork

Vegetables

• Braised artichokes with broad beans and peas
• Aubergine Parmesan
• Ratatouille
• Caponata
• Gratin of artichokes
• Braised red cabbage cooked in a viennese fashion
• Creamed aubergine
• Pan fried potatoes with sage
• Slow roasted tomatoes

Pulses and lentils

• Warm borlotti with rocket
• Braised lentils
• lentils with creamed aubergine, roasted tomatoes and ricotta
• Cannellini bean, grilled courgette and tomato salad with basil dressing

Pies and Savory tarts

• Vegetarian sherpards pie
• Tian of tomatoes and aubergine

Eggs

• Asparagus frittata
• Potato and onion frittata
• Eggs baked in creamy mashed potato

Salads

• Red onion, green bean and Parmesan salad
• Pomegranate, fennel and toasted pinenut salad
• Puntarelle alla Romana
• Greek salad
• Rocket, carrot and toasted pinenut salad

Sauces, dips and the likes

• Pesto
• Hummus
• Sugo di pomodoro or simple tomato sauce
• apple sauce
• bread sauce

Puddings, desserts, dolce and sweet things

• Cherry compote
• Plum compote
• Prosecco and orange jelly
• Sliced oranges with medjool dates
• Hot gooey chocolate puddings
• Poached quince with black pepper and cinnamon
• Blackcurrant meringue
• Saint Emilion au chocolat
• Fanned Apple tart
• Muskily spiced prunes
• Pears poached in red wine
• little pots of lemon cream

Gelato, sorbetto and granita

• lemon granita
• orange granita
• almond  granita
• Watermelon granita
• Coffee granita

Cakes and biscuits

• Orange and olive oil cake
• Clementine cake
• Gateau au chocolat fondant de Nathalie
• Parmesan biscuits
• Double chocolate brownie cake
• Nigel slaters sticky ginger cake
• A nice plain cake
• Italian plum and almond cake