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Pasta with spinach and philadelphia

Short pasta with spinach and philadelphia

I know philadelphia again, I have not taken the craze, do not worry.

Since the pairing in sofficini was a success, I’m here to make a small pasta for dinner short pasta with spinach and philadelphia. Yes, because these are made in the first second, they are light and therefore  suitable for dinner:

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Short pasta with spinach and philadelphia, save dinner fast and complete
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 100 g of spinach in cream
  • 1 shallot
  • 100 g of Philadelphia
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
  • salt to taste
  • 320 g short pasta (such as the Italian penne)
Preparazione
  1. Blanch the spinach in salted water, drain and sauté them with a little shallot, oil and blend.
  2. Philadelphia mix with the spinach mixture to make a smooth paste.
  3. Cook pasta al dente in salted water and toss in the cream cheese and spinach.
  4. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and parmesan.

I know that this is an obvious and simple pasta, but  if you do not have an idea on what to do, now yes! … Hello everyody and Happy weekend!

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Paccheri stuffed salmon and philadelphia with bechamel sauce

Paccheri stuffed salmon and philadelphia with bechamel sauce

This is a recipe wonderful according to my taste. It’s perfect for Sunday lunch or for a delicious dinner. In fact, that’s what we prepared on Sunday.

Finally came the sun, they could not be more:

Here paccheri stuffed salmon and philadelphia with bechamel sauce flavored with ginger:

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Paccheri stuffed salmon and philadelphia with bechamel sauce flavored with ginger, delicacy at the table with a twist.
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 320 g of paccheri
  • 150 g of salmon affumincato
  • 200 g of Philadelphia
  • 400 g of white sauce
  • chives to taste
  • salt to taste
  • bread crumbs as required
  • ginger to taste
For beschamel sauce
  • 40 g of butter
  • 40 g of flour type 00
  • 400 ml of milk
Preparazione
  1. In a bowl, mix well philadelphia previously cut into small pieces.
  2. Combine the finely chopped chives and a pinch of salt
  3. Leave the cream
  4. Prepare the sauce. (see here)
  5. Cook paccheri in boiling salted water for just 5 minutes, drain and fill with the cream of salmon obtained
  6. Grease a baking dish and arrange the paccheri standing up with the sauce over
  7. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and ginger, bake for about twenty minutes until the crust is formed.

For this you need to make compliments to my husband because during the preparation I did not feel well, so he cautiously help me and me lying, he followed all the instructions and prepared them in the end … he was good at it?

 

Bye bye

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Cream of peas

Cream of peas

Today’s recipe is a great cream of peas, velvety and light, suitable for young and old people, here it is:

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Cream of peas, green creaminess of legumes that also likes to children
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 500 g of frozen peas purposes (if you have them too fresh)
  • 100 ml of milk
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
  • 1 shallot
  • parsley to taste
  • enough water
  • grated cheese to taste
Preparazione
  1. Slice the shallots into thin slices
  2. Combine the frozen peas and fry a couple of minutes with scallions.
  3. At this point, add the milk and cover flush with the peas with water.
  4. Sprinkle with parsley, bring to a boil and add salt.
  5. Cook about a half hour, if too dry add a little water
  6. After cooking, blend well with the immersion blender and add a little milk if you feel the mixture is too dry.
  7. Go all the passes or vegetables in a colander to remove the skins.
  8. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and a good sprinkling of cheese.

 

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Small pasta gorgonzola and chard

Small pasta gorgonzola and chard

This receipe reminds me when I was a child! It ‘s a favorite pasta shape to me, my mom made ​​myself often with tomato sauce (Childhood memories).

Since we gave kindly gorgonzola and we do not like very much, I decided to make us receipe of pasta, for dinner insured, pasta with gorgonzola and beets:

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Small pasta gorgonzola and chard, a first for big tasty reminiscent of the small
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 320 g of small pasta
  • 5-6 large leaves of chard
  • 100 g of gorgonzola (blue cheese)
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 shallot
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • salt to taste
  • grated cheese to taste
  • pepper to taste
Preparazione
  1. Boil for ten minutes in salted water the beets
  2. Drain and Cook them with the garlic, shallot and a clove of garlic for Twenty Minutes.
  3. Cook the pasta in salted water, drain and toss with the beets and gorgonzola cheese
  4. Serve with grated cheese and Lovely, a little olive oil and a sprinkling of pepper.

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Small ridged pasta with peas and smoked cheese

Small ridged pasta with peas and smoked cheese

Hola guys! how are you? Here is pulled forward, sometimes I seem to lose the light of reason and I pissed, but then I take the reins … uffff ….

Today’s recipe is great, also liked to Romina … anyway, Let’s go to the recipe, Small ridged pasta with peas and smoked cheese:

Small ridged pasta with peas and smoked cheese
 
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Small ridged pasta with peas and smoked cheese, quick and easy recipe that appeals to children
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 320 g of Small ridged pasta (In Italy it is called "ditalioni rigati")
  • 30 g of peas (also frozen)
  • 120 g of smoked
  • A knob of butter
  • pepper to taste
Preparazione
  1. Boil peas in salted water for 15 minutes.
  2. Add pasta and cook for the time indicated on the package (usually 10 minutes)
  3. Meanwhile, cut cheese into cubes and melt it in a pan with a knob of butter.
  4. Drain the pasta and dress with the cheese melted.
  5. Mix well and sprinkle with a little 'pepper.
  6. Serve hot

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Water Potato dumplings with vegetable sauce

Water Potato dumplings with vegetable sauce

Yes!! and let’s say it again … hahaha … I succumbed again! I followed the “food fashion” and I’m also with the water Potato dumplings that I revel in the web! Well, I was intrigued and I must say that the family were very happy with the result, they are soft and keep the mixture well and  they are also lighter.

Here I opted for a very simple sauce with vegetables for replacing the classic tomato sauce (which I do not dislike it ..?)

They are also fast, because I am determined to get them just before lunch, here’s how:

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Water Potato dumplings with vegetable sauce, fast and liked
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
For the Potato dumplings
  • 350 g of flour type 00
  • 350 ml of water
  • a pinch of salt
for the sauce:
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 zucchini
  • 200 g of tomato pulp
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 shallot
  • basil
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. Boil the water, when it boils add salt and toss the flour.
  2. When the dough comes off the pot overthrow on a work surface and quickly form a homogeneous ball that then we cool.
  3. Meanwhile, in a frying pan lightly fry the garlic and shallots, add the vegetables cut into pieces and add tomato pulp.
  4. Season with salt and add the basil.
  5. Cook the sauce for about half an hour until it shrinks.
  6. At this point, take the dough, form strands of a cm wide and form drumplings
  7. Cook them in salted water, when they come to the surface, drain and toss with a wooden spoon with the sauce of vegetables or to your liking.

I think you will see them with other sauces, because there just liked us.

Today it is still a rainy day here and I’m giving it to the kitchen!

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Classic Lasagna with homemade pasta

Classic Italian lasagna in the dish

The traditional family plate we cannot say no, these are the lasagne was like my mom, grandmather was like, my aunt also, in short, the classic lasagna with homemade pasta :

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Classic Lasagna with homemade pasta, traditional Italian recipe
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Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
For the ragu'
  • 800 g of minced meat mixed choice
  • 1 onion
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • 1 carrot
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • aromas
  • salt as much as necessary
  • vegetable broth
  • red wine as much as necessary
  • nutmeg
  • 800 g of tomato puree
  • 2 hg Ham steak
For the white sauce
  • 90 g of butter
  • 90 g of flour
  • 90 g of grated cheese
  • 0.9 / 1 liter of milk
  • a pinch of salt
  • nutmeg
For the homemade pasta
  • 250 g of flour type oo
  • 250 g of re-milled durum flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 50-60 ml of milk
  • 30 ml of oil
  • 1 teaspoon salt
Preparazione
Prepare the sauce.
  1. Cut in small slices carrot, onion and celery and brown off them with a clove of garlic and a little oil in a pot.
  2. Put the meat and flavor it with some herbs ( rosemary, sage, bay leaves ) and salt
  3. Cooking for twenty minutes and deglaze with red wine.
  4. Put the tomato souce, season with salt , adjust with a little oil and cook over low heat for 2 hours, adding more vegetable broth if necessary .
  5. After that add the ham steak chop finely and add to the sauce and cook for another half and hour.
  6. The ragu is ready. Let it cool .
Prepare the white sauce:
  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over very low heat, then add the flour while stirring.
  2. Then add the milk and begin to spin vigorously with a whisk.
  3. After 10 minutes, (when the milk will begin to boil ) , the cream will begin' to thicken, stir more vigorously to avoid lumps .
  4. At this point, turn off and add a pinch of nutmeg, a little salt and grated cheese.
  5. The secret is to do it all over very low heat, you will avoid to form clots.
Prepare the homemade pasta .
  1. Combine the two flours and mix with a spoon of salt, add the 3 eggs in the center begin to knead.
  2. Add a little oil, and milk slowly to form a smooth and homogeneous dough.
  3. Knead for at least 10-15 minutes.
  4. Allow to rest the dough wrapped in plastic wrap for at least half hour and to pull the dough with the machine.
Prepare lasagna:
  1. Butter a baking dish, place a layer of pasta, one of sauce, one of white sauce and one of grated cheese, repeat until the end!
  2. Bake at 180 ° C for 45 minutes, until the surface will give you ' a nice crust !

The recipe that I’ve posted is a family one, my mother and her sister, my aunt, young people have learned from my grandmother ( my dad ‘s mom ‘ ) and from there, the recipe has become sacred, no one crippled!
🙂 kisses!

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Penne with chard and ricotta cheese

Penne with chard and ricotta cheese

The Chard!!!Here is a receipe  for a light dinner and different from the usual light: Penne with chard and ricotta cheese

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Penne with chard and ricotta cheese, main dish with vegetable seasoning alternative to the usual spinach and ricotta cheese
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 1 small bunch of chard
  • 80 g of ricotta cheese (soft white Italian cheese)
  • 220 g of pasta type penne
  • extra virgin olive oil q.b.
  • 1 onion
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • grated cheese
Preparazione
  1. Wash and chop the bunch of chard.
  2. Soak them for 20 minutes in salted water
  3. Drain.
  4. Sauté in a pan with a little oil, garlic and onion and put vegetables to taste.
  5. Finish cooking for about 15 minutes and season with salt
  6. When cooked, blend everything
  7. Cook the pasta in salted water
  8. Meanwhile, combine the ricotta cheese pureed vegetables and mix well with a little oil.
  9. Drain the pasta and serve with the sauce obtained.
  10. Sprinkle with grated cheese

This receipe  is born because I need to invent something to tuck the fateful vegetables to my little girl and  because I had already advanced from lunch.

So it works even a little recipe recycling … it’s different from the usual cream cheese and spinach.

It does not matter if then she saw my white pasta and wanted that in the end I swapped the plate of penne with vegetables ,What can you do .. the children are like so!

Now I go to bed, hints of influence on me!  …. byebye

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Small potato dumplings with kamut flour

Small potato dumplings with kamut flour

An idea or an alternative to regular potato dumplings? kamut flour dumplings! You have to try

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Small potato dumplings with kamut flour, They are delicious and lighter gnocchi made with traditional flour kamut flour because it is very digestible.
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 800 g of potatoes in white paste
  • 400 g kamut flour approx
  • one teaspoon fine salt
  • 3-4 bay leaves
  • 2-3 Sage leaves
  • Marjoram to taste
  • butter as needed
Preparazione
  1. Cook the potatoes for about 20-30 minutes over medium heat. Attention to ensure that you do not split or you make with water and it will be difficult to get drumplings.
  2. Drain and peel potatoes, put them in the potato masher while still warm, season with 1 teaspoon salt and add the flour.
  3. The amount of flour is relative because it depends on how potatoes take
  4. Knead until you have a smooth and homogeneous dough.
  5. Form cylinders and cut into chunks that form the dumplings
  6. Boil water with little oil, season with salt and toss drumplings
  7. When they afloat are ready
  8. In a saucepan melt butter with herbs and put on drumplings
  9. Sprinkle with grated cheese and serve.
Note
They are delicious and lighter gnocchi made with traditional flour kamut flour because it is very digestible.

A trick is to freeze them: they are posted on a floured tray and store in freezer covered with plastic wrap and leave it for 4-5 hours.

If you want to use right away it will be easier to immerse in boiling water because it will retain their shape, or else you can put in a bag and store them in the freezer for a next use!

Today is a beautiful rainy day than like me! We have just returned from a dinner together to celebrate the wedding anniversary of the in-laws.

byebye

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Spelt salad

Spelt salad

We still have time to do the last cold receipe, but the salads are not only cool, what I propose today can serve as hot: a nice pot of spelt salad:

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A warm spelt salad at sea flavor
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 125 g spelt
  • 10-15 cherry tomatoes
  • 2 anchovies
  • 150 g prawns
  • 100 g squid
  • 1 bay leaf
  • parsley to taste
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 stick of celery
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • oil ages
Preparazione
  1. Keep soaking spelt for 30 minutes (though in some packs not needed)
  2. Leave it to drain and rinse
  3. Coat it with water, add carrot and celery, bay leaf and a little oil.
  4. Bring to a boil and cook for 30 or 40 minutes.
  5. Cool in the cooking water.
  6. Meanwhile, in a skillet pasta wok type jumps saute with a little oil and garlic chopped tomatoes in half
  7. Add the anchovies cut into very fine pieces
  8. Add the squid and shrimp, season with salt and sprinkle with parsley.
  9. Deglaze with white and cook for 30 minutes.
  10. Drain spelt and blow it up in fish sauce.
Note
Like you can put even a sprinkling of chilli because there is!

I have an abundance of shrimp in the freezer and I had not understood squid eh …. anyway you have saved, are almost finished ahahhah.

I greet you and good weekend! Kisses kisses!

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Pasta with cooking cream and zucchini

Pasta with cooking cream and zucchini

Hello guys! Talking about food, the receipe of today is made with a kind of pasta called penne, with a zucchini cream. It’s nothing original but very yummy for those who like cream. If you do not have much time so here is a quick meal and , in my opinion, not so caloric.

Here you are, Pasta with cooking cream and zucchini:

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Pasta with cooking cream and zucchini, a first course greedy lightened by the presence of zucchini
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 1 large zucchini
  • 250 g.di cooking cream
  • 250 g. shirt pasta (like italian "penne")
  • salt to taste
  • garlic to taste
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
Preparazione
  1. Sautè the garlic in a pan with a little oil .
  2. Dice the zucchini and cook for 20 minutes without too wet with water as it has to remain a bit crunchy.
  3. Put the cooking cream and cook for a minute.
  4. Cook penne in boiling salted water and toss them in the zucchini sauce.
  5. Pepper (to those who like it)

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Oven-baked paccheri a type of italian pasta

Oven-baked paccheri a type of italian pasta

Hola!!! Oven-baked paccheri a type of italian pasta tonight. Quick Post for a simple recipe. Since time is saied, hot but with the right air (at least here), you can turn on the oven.

The classic recipe oven-baked pasta isn’t really so, usually I put sauce or mozzarella and mortadella in cubes but this time…

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Oven-baked paccheri a type of italian pasta
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 3
Ingredienti
  • 250 g paccheri
  • meat sauce as needed
  • 250 g of fresh cream
  • grana padano
  • bread crumbs as needed
Preparazione
  1. Cook 4-5 minutes pasta
  2. Butter a baking sheet storing paccheri and sauce with meat sauce and cream.
  3. Sprinkle of grana padano cheese, breadcrumbs and bake in the oven until it makes a nice crust.
  4. Simple but good

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