Tomato velouté

Prepare and enjoy this tomato soup take us back with memories to our trip to Ireland a few year ago 🙂 . We were on the windy cliffs of Dun Aonghasa, the most famous of the prehistoric stone forts of the Aran Islands, County Galway. After a morning spent in the company of hospitable Irish weather, we could not ask for … Read More

Half wholemeal pizza dough

Today we’ll show you one the basic ingredient we use the most 🙂 . A half wholemeal pizza dough, the whole wheat flour enhances the savour of the dough making it tastier 🙂 Bread machine If you’ve got a bread machine you can super-easily prepare this dough. Put all the ingredients in the machine, then select the “dough” program. Wait 90 minutes and … Read More

Wild rice with chicken, raisins and mint

Easter is coming, and also this year we want to propose a menu to be enjoyed in family. We’ll start by a fresh and particular first course: wild rice, enriched with chicken and raisins and flavoured with fresh mint… With this mild climate, you may already be able to harvest some mints leafs from your garden! 🙂 The rice we’re … Read More

Rocchetti pasta with mushrooms and ham

December 8th is approaching and with it also Christmas decorations! What about you? Have you already decorated the Christmas tree and your house? As you can see from the pic, we have already recovered the decorations from the attic 🙂 . After this small digression, let’s go back to the reason we are here… Our proposal for Christmas lunch: rocchetti … Read More

Seitan roast

A few years ago Fratelli ai Fornelli has attended a very interesting course on how to prepare seitan at home and today, in honour of the worldwide week of vegetarians, we’re proposing one of the best known dishes of vegan-vegetarian cuisine: the seitan roast. Seitan was born in ancient times in China with the name of Mian jin and spread later … Read More

Ratatouille

After harvesting a large basket of vegetables from the garden,  we decided to prepare the ratatouille. A mixture of seasonal vegetables: eggplant, zucchini and tomatoes accompanied with piperade sauce made of sweet peppers and onions, and flavoured with thyme, oregano and parsley 🙂 . The veggies are cut into thin discs and arranged alternately in concentric circles over a thin layer … Read More

White Isabella grape jelly

Autumn is (sadly) coming, but the good thing about it are all the delicious fruits maturing in September. One of them is Isabella grape, a golden grape with strong scent of strawberries, native of North America! It is often used for the famous fragolino, an Italian wine, but today we want to present it in an unusual way; is there any … Read More

Shaken Iced Coffee with tapioca pearls and ginseng powder

A few months ago we visited a spice market and we ran into ginseng powder, directly obtained from the root once exsiccated. Since we love ginseng, we could not resist and we bought some, with the intention to try out new recipes. For today’s recipe, we have been inspired by these beautiful days of sunshine and warmth, perfect to enjoy a … Read More

Mahlabia – Moroccan orange blossom pudding

If you’re looking for an easy, light dessert, you’re in the right place! Today we’re going to show you the mahlabia a pudding of Moroccan and Egyptian tradition flavoured with orange blossom and sprinkled with roasted nuts! 😀 The savour of mahlabia will be so rich to transport you into the atmosphere of “One Thousand and One Nights”, but, as you will see in … Read More

Virgin Mojito

Many of you have requested us soft drinks, so we decided to start with one of the most famous and refreshing drinks: Virgin Mojito :D! This is the non-alcoholic variant of mojito, the popular Cuban cocktail flavoured with fresh mint and lime. In this version, the white rum is replaced by ginger ale, which adds a touch of spicy ginger to … Read More