A Spring Menu nr 2 / Un menù di primavera nr 2

Here we are with the second appointment with my spring menus. Aren’t you curious to read what’s up for this week? Here are the four courses of the second menu:
Savoury Short Pastry Nests with Cheese Cream, Chicory and Black Olives
Rosemary and Candied Lemon Peel Risotto
Rabbit with Beer, Honey and Herbs Glaze with Roasted Potatoes
Almonds and Orange

Is your mouth watering yet?

Maroggia’s Mill Cookbook: Potato Focaccia / Il Ricettario del Mulino di Maroggia: Focaccia di patate

Yet another Friday, and yet another blog post high on carb levels. Who does not love focaccia? For sourdough lovers I have already posted my recipe for wild yeast focaccia but what I lack is a little recipe a little less complex, with a lower hydration but as soft and well risen as the former. To achieve such a result I have put some potatoes in the dough, used a good flour and a little elbow grease. Are you ready for my easy peasy recipe?

MTC Challenge: Italian Stew, how I Iove you! / MTC Challenge: Spezzatino o anche di un amore nato a fuoco lento

To every recipe an introduction. A story, a few anecdotes. When I first read this month’s MTC Challenge recipe I got shivers in my spine. No, not those sweet old memories shivers. Cold and scary ones. My mother being British we grew up eating sheperd’s pies, Lancashire hot pots, pork and I remember few occasional stews. But not spezzatino, the italian version of stew. No nonna recipes, no Sunday lunch tradition, nothing.