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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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Spaghetti with bottarga

spaghetti with bottarga

Hola people! While I’m writing this post finally there is a ray of sunshine!

Today I cooked spaghetti with bottarga I met for the first time thanks to a friend Sardinian who has kindly given me a long time ago, came directly from the original Sardinia!
The bottarga is a food made up of the gonads of the fish, whose eggs are salted and dried by conventional methods.
It’s obtained from the eggs of tuna or mullet.

I embellished with a spectacular Sicilian condiment made with chillies and spices that I was affectionately given to me by my friends, directly from Pantelleria!! So ‘here’s the great spaghetti with bottarga:

Spaghetti with bottarga
 
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Spaghetti with bottarga, a dish seasoned with a delicate Italian specialty based of tuna eggs dried and salted dried and salted
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Ricetta: Main
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 320 g of spaghetti
  • 40 g of bottarga
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • cooking water as much as necessary.
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 teaspoon of spices for spaghetti or some pepper
  • parsley as much as necessary.
Preparazione
  1. Bring salted water to a boil
  2. Cook spaghetti cooked until just firm
  3. In a wok brown a drizzle of olive oil a clove of garlic and a little pepper, (to me prepared for the Sicilian spaghetti).
  4. When pasta is ready, drain, place in the wok and sprinkle with grated bottarga. Sprinkle with parsley and sauteeing pasta for few seconds, adding a little cooking water. Serve with grated bottarga here and there '.

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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:

Paccheri stuffed salmon and philadelphia with bechamel sauce
 
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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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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:

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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Cold barley to the smell of the sea

Cold barley to the smell of the sea

In summer there’s  more place for salads.
Also leads you to make healthy recipes, because the cereal, as you know, are a great substitute of meat.

This recipe came from a tip, cold barley to the smell of the sea.

There was talk of cold salads, or summer in short and advised me this delicacies:

Cold barley to the smell of the sea
 
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Cold barley to the smell of the sea, refreshing, light and sapore di mare, cold barley
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 250 g Pearl barley
  • 10 cherry tomatoes
  • a dozen shrimp
  • enough black olives
  • 125 g jar of pesto genovese
  • 200 g squid
  • salt to taste
  • evo oil as required
Preparazione
  1. Soak the barley any hour (on some bottles there is written that does not require soaking, but an hour never hurts)
  2. Let it cook in salted water for 45 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile Cook in salty water also squids and prawns for about twenty minutes.
  4. Cut olives and cherry tomatoes, put them in a bowl, sprinkle with salt and drizzle with a little oil.
  5. Drain the barley and add to the tomatoes and season with pesto.
  6. Add the squid and shrimp. Mix well and refrigerate.
  7. Serve nice cool with a drizzle of raw oil.
  8. Stir from time to time because barley dry and tends to stick a little.
Note
I thought I'd combine these ingredients without adding more because with too you overdo it!

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