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Posted by Ren on luglio 12th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Cold Chicken Soffritto
Seem to be cooking a lot of chicken lately. It’s so easy to cook when it is cool in this boiling city, so that you can fridge it and eat it when it’s hot outside! This is a lovely recipe from Claudia Roden’s book of Middle Eastern Food that I have taken all over the [...]
Posted by Ren on luglio 12th, 2008 under Recipes | Comment now »Chicken sauté with cucumber & sprouts
Two chicken breasts cut in strips
1 cucumber cut in strips
2 med zucchini cut in strips
mixed sprouts
ginger, garlic, lemon grass, s & p
olive oil for sauté
Cut into tiny pieces the garlic, ginger and lemon grass ( can’t find it in Rome so I get people to bring it from London or Paris for me) and sauté [...]
Stuffed tomatoes alla Romana
1 med. sized mature tomatoe per person
mixture of garlic, parsley, origano, basil, s & p
Cooked rice
Cut 1/5th of the tomatoe to have a little cover for the top. Empty the pulp and seeds inside and crush together with the herb mixture. Mix with the cooked rice and fill the tomatoes. Cover with the little [...]
The Big Bang contemporary art-the cosmos
Museum of Carlo Bilotti, Villa Borghese
The Big Bang
Type: Contemporary Art
The cosmos as seen through artistic eyes
The exhibition route takes us past the works of four American artists showing in Rome for the first time ever- as well as those by Italians Alberto di Fabio, Domenico Bianchi and Mario Dellavedova and Shazia Sikander from Pakistan, all [...]
Posted by Ren on luglio 12th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Food project for The Children of Africa
The Children of Africa Project has been running for two years now, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Posted by Ren on luglio 12th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »The Threshing Festival in Frosinone
Pontecorvo, Frosinone, Thursday 10th July to 13th July the threshing Festival begins to commemorate the wheat harvest. When the wheat grain represented the sole source of sustenance for the family and the basis of life, its threshing time represented an almost sacred moment; for this reason the atmosphere in the centre of Lazio in these [...]
Posted by Ren on luglio 10th, 2008 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »International Sacred Music Choir Festival
IV International Sacred Music Choir Festival
Rome and the Vatican City July 18th – 21th, 2008
Free entrance to all
Friday 18th July 2008 – 8.30 pm Place: Basilica S. Ignazio, Piazza S. Ignazio – Rome Choir: All the Choir Program: Sacred music from all over the world
Saturday 19th July 2008 – 10.00 am Parade Route: Largo Argentina, [...]
Flan of zucchini
This is another dish that you can make in the coolest hours of the day, to eat cold when it is too hot to have the oven on. 6 small zucchini, or 4 medium sized
nutmeg, s & red pepper
3 eggs
1 large spoon low fat yogurt
handful parsley
120gr grated gruyère cheese
Throw the zucchini in boiling water for 3 [...]
Clafouti of apricots
Clafouti
Clafouti, is a custard-like dessert with either cherries, prunes or apricots – or a mixture of all three.
1 cup flour
pinch of salt
half pot of low fat yogurt and milk
3 eggs
vanilla essence
1/2 cup brown sugar
1tspn grated ginger
ripe apricots
Half packet slithered almonds
Cut the apricots in half and place flat side up on the bottom of a glass oven [...]
Breast of chicken with ginger & soya, grilled veg & red lentil hummus
2 whole chicken breasts boned
4 tbspn tamari or good soya sauce
1 small sliced onion
2cm square piece of ginger sliced
1tbspn olive oil
Put all the ingredients in a casserole and lay the chicken on top. Spoon some sauce over the chicken. Cook in a hot oven 185° for 25′ on one side, then turn over and cook another [...]
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Posted by Ren on luglio 7th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Italian ceramists in Puglia
Posted by Ren on luglio 7th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Seafood salad – squid, fennel,grated ginger & marinated anchovies
I went in the raging heat this morning to the market at the Trionfale. My favourite market in Rome. There are so many farmers with their stalls that makes the competition very high and the prices very good! The fish market is wonderful and wanted to do a cold octopus salad, but my fishmonger only [...]
Posted by Ren on luglio 1st, 2008 under Recipes | Comment now »Melanzana involtini-little rolls of stuffed eggplant.
2 medium length eggplant stuffing
3 small tomatoes
cup breadcrumbs
s & p/ parsley/pinenuts
water
1/2 small zucchina
Cut the eggplant into thin slices, sprinkle with salt and drain in a colander for 1hr, wash & dry. Grill on a hotplate. Pile on a dish & prepare the stuffing in a mixer, adding enough water to make a sort of thick paste. Put the [...]
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