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Spinach, Salami & Mushroom Calzone
Published on 2012-03-23 18:02:56
I absolutely love calzone. If you pick ingredients that really compliment each other, the flavours all fuze together whilst bubbling away in their doughy casing and it can really have a delicious outcome. My favourite calzone filling is ham, mushroom and spinach with oodles of mozzarella and garlic. The flavours of mozzarella, garlic and mushroom marry so well together and the added salt of the ham with the tang of spinach just makes for the perfect flavour combination. My boyfriend insisted on [..] > read more
Pizza Pizza Pizza
Published on 2012-02-28 01:56:24
This weekend, my boyfriend and I set about making a load of pizzas for his brother’s birthday. My step Mother-in-law made all different homemade versions of takeaways and we contributed the pizzas. Harry always makes the dough (look at my Two Greedy Italians Pizza recipe) and I always take care of the lovely tomato sauce and toppings. We made prosciuto e funghi, salami, red onion & green pepper, roasted pepper & pastrami, and garlic & cherry tomato. YUM. > read more
penne gratinate
Published on 2012-02-25 05:19:33
This is my first blog post in my new abode - with a new kitchen and lovely new kitchenware. It’s very exciting and I hope to make lots of wonderful Jennie Eats Italy creations here. I’ve been meaning to do a penne gratinate recipe for quite a while now. It’s a dish me and my best friend have when we go to our local Italian and it’s also something I love when my Grandma does it. Everyone has their own method of doing a ‘pasta bake’ - with lots of different ingredients. I like to keep [..] > read more
Pork in breadcrumbs & saute potatoes
Published on 2012-02-17 14:16:33
Every Monday night I would go to my Grandma’s house as a child with my cousins and we would have dinner. It was a lovely tradition and the food was always beautiful. My Grandma often made pork or chicken in breadcrumbs and it was one of my favourites. I love the thin tender cut of meat enveloped in a tasty crunchy coating, doused in lemon juice, it’s absolutely beautiful. I’ve already blogged about Italian peas and their place in my heart. I am a massive pea fan and I’m not ashamed to sa [..] > read more
Spaghetti Pomodoro with Garlic & Basil
Published on 2012-02-14 03:18:55
It was my other half and my anniversary this weekend so I decided to cook a romantic meal for two. For starter I wanted to do a really simple pasta, so I decided to just do a spaghetti pomodoro with some really lovely sweet cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, garlic and oil. In Italy it’s very rare not to have a pasta course in a main meal. It often comes before a meat course (which will be my next blog post) so I just wanted something fresh and light, and most of all simple - because it can get qui [..] > read more
Beef Rolled With Mushrooms & Pine Nuts
Published on 2012-02-06 04:19:22
This beef dish is a really nice change from standard meat recipes. Rolling the meat with tasty ingredients just makes the flavours a bit more interesting, and cooking it in a gorgeous tomato sauce adds a real richness. It’s really easy to do but looks quite impressive - I think it’s really tasty! Beef Rolled With Mushrooms & Pine Nuts ~ Serves 2 Ingredients Six pieces of very thin beef One large onion One large handful of mushrooms 70g pine nuts One small handful of parsley One tin of chopp [..] > read more
Rocket, Red Onion, Pumpkin & Pea Pasta Salad
Published on 2012-02-03 19:43:52
Pasta salad is a gorgeous accompaniment to meat and great on it’s own as a light lunch. Most come cold but this pasta salad is great warm too. I would say that you can put pretty much whatever you fancy in a pasta salad, but it can quite easily turn out bland, so make sure you have ingredients with quite distinct flavours. For my pasta salad I started off with pumpkin as my main addition. I decided to cube it and roast it with garlic to give the pasta salad a gorgeous flavour, colour and nic [..] > read more
Cooking With Italian Grandmothers ~ Usha's Plum & Almond Tart
Published on 2012-02-01 02:50:23
Following my interview with Jessica Theroux, author of ‘Cooking with Italian Grandmothers’, I decided to cook a recipe from the book. The book is really gorgeous and it was hard to make a decision of what to cook. As I’ve not posted anything sweet in a while I decided to attempt Italian Grandmother Usha’s Plum & Almond Tart. It looked absolutely delicious in the pictures and I couldn’t resist giving it a go! Usha’s Plum & Almond Tart, taken from Cooking With Italian Grandmothers by J [..] > read more
Cooking With Italian Grandmothers, Interview: Jessica Theroux
Published on 2012-01-30 04:21:00
Jessica Theroux Author of “Cooking With Italian Grandmothers, Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily” Last week I was lucky enough to speak to teacher, chef and author, Jessica Theroux for Jennie Eats Italy. In 2003, Jessica was awarded an Arnold Fellowship by Brown to travel around Italy and document food traditions throughout the country. As a result of this experience she wrote a book called Cooking With Italian Grandmothers which contain her gastronomic memoirs of traveling down Ita [..] > read more
Curried Fettuccine
Published on 2012-01-28 03:17:00
On one trip back to Valvori, Italy to see my family, about 6 years ago, my Zia Agnese made a creamy fettuccine that was ever-so-slightly curried. At the time it was a very trendy dish in the world of Italian cuisine. I know what you’re thinking, curry and pasta - come on Jennie, don’t be ludicrous. But I am telling you, it is absolutely delicious, especially if you are a fan of creamier pasta dishes. The thing about women of a certain age in Italy is that they are invariably good cooks and t [..] > read more
Stuffed Peppers
Published on 2012-01-26 03:23:40
Stuffed peppers is a really popular dish in Italy. Family friends have often requested my Grandma’s recipe and I have to say that it’s one of my favourites too (but then again, what dish isn’t?!) The sweet pepper case holds a beautifully rich meat filling mixed with garlic, onion and mushrooms enveloped in tomato and mozzarella. It’s full to the brim with lovely flavours that really go well together and marry perfectly with a balsamic tossed salad. Feel free to put other ingredients in [..] > read more
Spaghetti Napolitana
Published on 2012-01-24 02:49:44
The picture above I took while I was in Rome. I absolutely love it and it is incredibly reminiscent of me and my journey from thin to rotund as I write this blog. Pasta is my favourite food by far. I could literally eat it for breakfast. My Grandad always says that he loves going back to Italy because he gets to eat spaghetti every day, and let’s face it, there’s no better reason to go there. Pasta is one of the first things that springs to mind when we think of Italy and Italian cuisine. Wh [..] > read more
Italian Chicken Casserole
Published on 2012-01-22 04:23:25
I am really trying to be well behaved with my eating. It’s not working. However, I do make attempts to eat healthy dinners, and this is an example of one I cooked last week - an Italian interpretation of a chicken casserole, served with cous cous. It’s so easy to do, tastes delicious and you can add what ever vegetables you like/ have in the pantry. This dish also works well with beef, pork or without meat. Italian Chicken Casserole & Cous Cous ~ Serves 4 Ingredients A large pack of skinless [..] > read more