Zero impact recipes and great value menus that prove you can eat well and spend next to nothing using inexpensive ingredients, reducing your food miles and turning your left overs into something special. Good for taste, good for your pockets!
This simple potato leeks soup is a really budget friendly recipe, that in its basic and traditional version is totally gluten free and vegetarian. Turn it vegan replacing the whipping cream with some extra vegetable stock or white wine.
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Tired of roasted pumpkins? Need to posh off your halloween leftovers? Try this pumpkin soufflé, it won’t disappoint even if pumpkin is your less-than-favorite veggie.
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Do you like gnocchi? Preparing pumpkin gnocchi is very easy: it’s so simple that my grandma used to plann gnocchi sessions with us grand children. The end result is a succulent, mouthwatering, slightly sweet dish with more than a bit of Italian taste.
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While trick or treaters will enjoy your carved pumping lanterns, throwing out halloween leftovers is a crime! Enrich your roasted seeds in many ways, simple adding your favorite spice before baking.
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While Halloween is all about the jack-o’-lanterns, you may be glad to use the pumpkin leftovers in many different ways… this simple salty fritters recipe is just one of the ways to use the pumpkin flash in a very uncommon but tasty way.
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This mozzarella gratin dish is perfect for summer days, like today. you can prepare it in advance, and grill just before lunch. Tomato, basil and melted mozzarella are the very essence of Mediterranenan summer flavors.
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This tomato soup, typical from Tuscany is one of my favorite soups indeed. Here in Italy it’s a sort of institution: we have nursery rhymes about it, and a song that the last 10 generations know. It’s slightly acidic taste, due to tomatoes, is tempered by burrata cheese and basil.
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Cut the zucchini long width into quarters, and make small pieces 2 inches long. Fry the zucchini into hot extra virgin olive oil for 2-3 minutes, until gently golden, than drain in paper towels until you get rid of any excess of oil, transfer in an hermetic jar. In a large non stick sauce […]
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You can use this flavored salt of any dish: just spread over meat, fish, vegetables, baked potatoes or french fries and, if you live in Transylvania, you can also use it to ward off vampires: it just depends on your needs!
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A fab find, which I did by chance, once I was looking for a simple and colored side dish to be associated with some recipes photographed for my site. It came out so good, as well as beautifully bright, that it has become a fixture of my kitchen.
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