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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Hello everybody! The Carnival is over! Now for a little bit just fried .. Today I propose the octopus salad, a simple but favolous recipe that I love to eat on every occasions. For changing a little bit instead of putting boiled potatoes I preferes to make them crispy, a detail that even if a small part it makes the  difference …

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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes, an alternative to the classic recipe
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 1 medium-size octopus
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 potatoes
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • a glass of white wine
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • olives
  • some cherry tomatoes
Preparazione
  1. Take the octopus, rinse under cold water, clean it (in the head, on the back where the little hole and the two eyes)
  2. Take a large pot, fill it with cold water, add the carrot celery potato, a drop of wine and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
  3. Bring to a boil and cook for an hour and a half.
  4. Allow to cool octopus in its cooking water. Drain, peel it and make it into cubes.
  5. Put it in a bowl along with the tomatoes and olives. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and sprinkle with parsley.
  6. Meanwhile, cut a potato into small cubes and roast it with a little 'oil.
  7. Serve the octopus salad with small dice of potato crisp


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Cod with potato crust tasty

cod with potato crust tasty

Hello hello we are here again! Today, step right to talk about food. For the recipe I took inspiration from the beautiful ideas of “Il mio saper fare di Marisa“, a blog full of ideas, and I love it.

She had the salmon in a crust of potatoes and onions great, and since I love the fish in the oven with the crust, I opted for the cod with a potato crust a little different:

Cod with potato crust tasty
 
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Cod with potato crust tasty, according of fish, fast, crisp and light
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 4 slices of cod
  • 1 large potato
  • 30 g of breadcrumbs
  • ⅔ anchovies
  • parsley
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. In an oiled baking sheet lay the slices of cod previously washed and a little salt on the surface.
  2. Grate the potato flakes and place in a bowl with bread crumbs, anchovies and chop the parsley
  3. Bread with this mixture the surface of the fish and soak it again with a little oil.
  4. Add in baking dish two clove of garlic and bake at 180 ° C for 30 minutes, until golden.

 

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Rolled turkey stuffed with artichoke cream

Rolled turkey stuffed with artichoke cream

Hello guys! I feel the spring in the blood! I started to go a bit to the park in the afternoon to bring my little who is learning to ride a bike! I understand from March to September with his back bent … In September I book the massage therapist .. ahahahaha

But let’s talk about food! Today I propose one more recipe from my friend Paola, a cousin of my husband. Whoever follows me already knows, I cooked some of his fantastic recipes including this one that is accessible to all and easy. We went to dinner with her a few weeks ago and here is this fantastic roll. The only thing I changed is the type of meat, I used the turkey meat doing a roll, and she had the chicken rolls. However, with this recipe are fine with the two kind of white meat.

Here’s the roll of turkey stuffed with artichoke cream:

Rolled turkey stuffed with artichoke cream
 
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Rolled turkey stuffed with artichoke cream, refined and delicate
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 5 slices of turkey breast
  • 200 g of artichokes in oil
  • salt to taste
  • grass, sage and rosemary to taste
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 shallot
  • white wine to taste
Preparazione
  1. Arrange the turkey slices close together on baking paper, add salt a little at the surface.
  2. Meanwhile take the artichokes, finely shred and blend with some of their preserve oil so as to obtain a cream.
  3. Apply this cream with slices of turkey, form a roll and tie with kitchen twine.
  4. In a sauté pan with a little oil previously finely sliced ​​shallots, add the roll salt to taste, add the herb sage and rosemary and cook for an hour, turning it over, until golden, basting with white wine.
  5. Allow to cool, cut the twine and slice the slices which are then heated nell'intigolo and that 'format.
Note
Excellent with the well
The recipe calls for the artichokes, homemade much better if you have them! Otherwise you can cook the artichokes with vinaigrette and blend with the cooking water.

Now I greet you! Good week to all!

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Vegetable pies baked with rice

Vegetable pies baked with rice

Today’s recipe is a bomb: it’s healthy, light, fast, tasty, great for recycling and the kids eat it willingly at least mine! She always makes the TRIS!!

I did this receipe because I had rice and vegetables advanced, if you don’t have rice, just make it boil a handful. The vegetables are good for any type.

Here are the vegetable patties:

Vegetable pies baked with rice
 
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Vegetable pies baked with rice, delicate and croccoso. Really like the children
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Ricetta: second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • a tuft of chicory
  • some little line of cauliflower
  • 1 potato
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • 1 carrot
  • parsley
  • 40 g of grated cheese
  • 20 g breadcrumbs
  • 1 egg
  • parsley to taste
  • a handful of rice
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. Blanch the vegetables and the rice in salted water
  2. Put all the vegetables in a blender, combine the egg, cheese, breadcrumbs, parsley, salt and whisk well.
  3. Put the mixture in the appropriate cups.
  4. On the surface, cover with the previously cooked and drained rice.
  5. Dust the surface of each cups with breadcrumbs and a drizzle of oil.
  6. Bake 15 minutes in the oven, until the surface is good colors, so that the rice appears nice crispy.

The dose is more or less for 8-10 ramekins, then it depends on the size of your chessels.

Now I greet you …. good evening!

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Meat with tomato sauce

Meat with tomato sauce

Hello boys and girls! They start nice days! I hope are also beautiful in itself and should be full of good things!
Today’s recipe is one of many that was my mom.
Here, too, a great comfort food! Meat with tomato sauce, a souce with the taste of pizzaI remember when I came back home from school I was hungry and I was very happy to find it!
Here is the recipe,  :

Meat with tomato sauce
 
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Meat with tomato sauce, meat with original Italian flavor
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 4 slices of beef or veal to taste
  • 340 g of tomato puree
  • oregano as much as necessary
  • some olive oil
  • sage q.b.
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 onion
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt and pepper as much as necessary
Preparazione
  1. In a sauté pan with a little oil brown off the finely chopped onion and garlic , add the tomato puree , salt and sprinkle with oregano.
  2. Cooking the tomato sauce for about 45 minutes, if necessary by adding a bit of water.
  3. At this point, add the olives and meat previously salted and a few leaves of sage.
  4. Cook the slices of meat for 5 minutes turning them. Serve with plenty of bread.

Good sunny day to everybody!

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Omelette with turnip tops

Omelet with turnip tops

Ciaooo! How are you getting? Here it’s always raining … uff!

Talking about food, today I cooked a receipe of my mom’s family: The omelette with turnip greens.

My grandmother, in Abruzzo, often made ​​this and It was often cooked by my aunts  now. My grandmother had lots of peaks that grew in the garden. I remember my aunt told me that she always put it in the middle of the sandwich and eat at lunch in the factory, when she still lived in Torino di Sangro, the birthplace of my mother.

A simple omelette, full of flavor and memories:

Omelet with turnip tops
 
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Omelet with turnip tops recipe from family tradition. Handed down from mother Abruzzo
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 bunch of turnip tops
  • 60 g of grated cheese
  • parsley as much as necessary
  • salt as much as necessary
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 clove of garlic
Preparazione
  1. Wash the tops and remove the outer leaves.
  2. Cut them into pieces.
  3. In a pan fry with a little oil a clove of garlic
  4. Combine the tops, a little salt and cook for a half hour, adding water if necessary.
  5. Beat the eggs with the cheese, parsley and a pinch of salt, pour the mixture over the vegetables and cook for 5 minutes, then flip it over and cook another 5
  6. minutes on the other side.

Well … how my aunt did, I put it  a slice a sandwich in the sandwitch.

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Cauliflower quiche or pie dough brisè stuffed with cauliflower

Cauliflower quiche

Hello everybody!.

Today’s recipe starring cauliflower, quiche or pie with cauliflower pasta brisa stuffed with cauliflower. Me and my husband love it, but we do not text, because we are herbivores!

I must say that my daughter instead surprised us, She ate it boiled! 🙂 Or mom!! However, I am convinced that it was a fluke, certainly she did’nt know what she was doing .. hahah

I thought to cook a quiche with pasta brisa

Pasta brisa is easy to make at home, but for those are in a hurry  It’is useful that is located on the bank of the supermarket! here’s how I did it:

Cauliflower quiche with pasta brisa :

Cauliflower quiche or pie dough brisè stuffed with cauliflower
 
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Cauliflower quiche or pie dough brisè stuffed with cauliflower
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 1 roll of pasta brisa
  • 200 g of boiled cauliflower
  • 2 mozzarella
  • 1 egg
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • parsley
  • 30 g of grated cheese
Preparazione
  1. Boil for about 30 minutes in salted water cauliflower previously washed and cut into pieces.
  2. Weigh 200 g and crush with a fork.
  3. In a bowl mix the egg with a pinch of salt and grit.
  4. Combine the cauliflower
  5. Sprinkle with parsley and add the diced mozzarella.
  6. Spread roll dough into a baking pan, pour the mixture inside and close the ends of the pasta brisa.
  7. Bake at 200 ° C for 15 minutes!

A pie is excellent and in my opinion also appreciated by children as the strong flavor of the vegetable is somewhat camouflaged by cheese…

Good week to everybody!

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