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  • Recipe Saganaki with Pickled Figs
    Saganaki with Pickled Figs (1 vote)
    One hot hot hot day I found myself dining alfresco at a Greek restaurant in a busy neighborhood outside of Perth . M and I were sipping on some daytime cocktails and ordering from the Mezze menu, which are little dishes similar to tapas,[...]
  • Recipe Canederli
    Canederli
    To Love Bread is to Love Life I never throw away bread, I use it to make a variety of dishes, and in particular canederli, big bread dumplings typical of the North East of Italy. My mum used to make them often in winter for us, and[...]
  • Recipe Red Walnut Pesto
    Red Walnut Pesto
    In case you don't know I have another blog, where I talk about travel, books and food; in the last travel post I talked about my trip to Austria, and Imogen and Günther's walnuts. Not only they gave me some red[...]
  • Recipe Seeded Lavash Chips
    Seeded Lavash Chips
    Lately I've been taking a stand on purchasing hummus. Week after week I buy it at the store and vow to quit it because it's overpriced and never as good as I know it can be and when I look at the few ingredients it just seems logical to[...]
  • Recipe Pasta with eggplants
    Pasta with eggplants
    Photo by Alessandra Zecchini© Ingredients: 2 medium eggplants rock salt 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 garlic cloves 1 chili pepper (optional) 2 cups Italian Tomato Passata salt to taste 500 g pasta serves 4-5 Cut two[...]
  • Recipe Fusilli with Piselli
    Fusilli with Piselli
    Photo by Alessandra Zecchini© Piselli means peas in Italian, and fusilli is a type of pasta. I just like the sound Fusilli with Piselli , it rolls well!!! To make the sauce just chop a small onion and fry with a little[...]
  • Recipe New Tastes at Old Spago
    New Tastes at Old Spago
    For this entry into my Panamanian Cooking Series I want to feature Wolfgang Puck and Spago . You can?t really talk about iconic Hollywood restaurants without including Spago . But[...]
  • Recipe Truffled White Bean Dip
    Truffled White Bean Dip
    One Friday night after a long week of work, I got home and wanted only to sit in the sun on my balcony with M, a glass of wine, and some good, leisurely snacks. I surveyed what we had on hand and pulled out a wedge of Gruyere, olives, pickles,[...]
  • Recipe Rosemary and Tomato Risotto
    Rosemary and Tomato Risotto
    Usually I like to pair tomato with fresh basil, or with dried oregano. These are the flavours my palate appreciate. With rosemary? Up to now only when other vegetables where also present...just tomato and rosemary...well, back from London,[...]
  • Recipe Cool Spinach & Artichoke Dip
    Cool Spinach & Artichoke Dip
    There was this dip I used to buy at Whole Foods that was a guilty pleasure for a couple reasons: One, I knew it was loaded with man's greatest invention (mayonnaise) and two, it was strangely pricey. After the dip made it safely home, I would[...]