Hello fellow readers and food lovers 🙂 Yes, I know, it’s been a while. Still cooking, don’t worry 🙂 And always collecting recipes and photos to show, that’s for sure… But unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to stop and talk to you and I apologize for that… Between holidays (been to Portugal to see…
Italian
Pasta with Italian sausage and zucchini
Guess who’s in the kitchen? The boyfriend! I love when he cooks for me… this time he’s making pasta with Italian sausage and zucchini. We are lucky to be able to find zucchini quite easily here so he makes this dish very often. We normally use fresh Italian sausage from our butcher but you can…
Homemade ham and mushroom pizza
You won’t imagine how many times we actually cook pizza in my house… A lot!! Every time I ask the boyfriend what he wants for dinner the first answer is always pizza… And because I’m such a good wifey I roll up my sleeves, knead some dough and make him his pizza 🙂 From…
Italian lasagna made in Portugal
We had 3 different nationalities sitting around our Xmas table this year. And I wanted all three countries represented also in the food. I have showed you Portuguese dishes, Maltese dishes and now I’m adding another dish from the other country: Italian lasagna… made by my boyfriend! Yes, you know he cooks, so he wanted…
Rigatoni Pie
Having an Italian boyfriend means a lot of pasta dishes are prepared in my kitchen. If I give him the choice, we would have pasta almost everyday. Don’t take me wrong, I love pasta, but I also love other foods and to try new recipes. During one of these moments when I really wanted to…
Panna cotta with figs and honey
Going back to the sweet side of cooking… desserts! As you all may know by now, not my most comfortable task in the kitchen. But every so often I like to try my luck… This time I was looking for a refreshing dessert but it had to be Italian! And I wanted to make something…
Rigatoni with meatballs and tomato sauce
I think by now I showed everyone how much I love to cook! But some days I put the cooking love aside and my other love steps in: my boyfriend. I’ve mentioned before that he also likes to cook and every so often I allow him to use the kitchen 🙂 Being half Italian, it’s…
Puff pastry breadsticks with sun dried tomatoes and oregano‏
Another Italian style recipe, this time from me 🙂 It’s not always the boyfriend that cooks Italian dishes. Ok, he’s the one dealing with all the pasta dishes but I wanted to surprise him with something else from his cuisine. So I came up with these Puff pastry breadsticks with sun dried tomatoes and oregano‏….