pasta

Orzo with feta, tomatoes and dill

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 20, 2011 · 28 comments

in Food and Drink, Healthy, Recipes, Salads, weightloss

Orzo salad with feta and tomatoes

Now you probably thought I would continue posting recipes for utterly decadent and unhealthy chocolate cakes, right? But no… sorry to disappoint; it’s time to get healthy again! Talking of which I have a question for all of you… do you have any really good and really really fast recipes that you use for all [...]

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Pasta with shrimps and a little story

by Simone (junglefrog) on June 29, 2011 · 19 comments

in Food and Drink, Italian, Recipes

“The moisture on the walls slowly dripped down, leaving a glistening trail behind. Every now and then a drop hit the floor, making a soft noise in otherwise silent and dark hallways. Throughout the underground vaults there was a weird kind of mist. A mist that seemed to radiate a faint smell of decay. Despite [...]

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Goatcheese lemon pasta

by Simone (junglefrog) on June 19, 2011 · 22 comments

in Food and Drink, Italian, Recipes, Vegetarian

I see a flutter of wings when the magpie family lands on the windowsill right in front of my office window. It’s rainy and windy outside and they’ve taken the liberty to use our windowsill as a hide-out when it gets too wet in the trees. They are curious and I think the reflection in [...]

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Pasta I can eat just about any day of the week. I think I have said it before, but I will tell you again; it is the perfect meal for using leftovers. Tom and I have had a fabulous weekend with lots of sunshine and a really nice foodfestival called “the weekend of the rolling [...]

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It was time… It had been too long ago that Charlotte and myself (and Winfried) cooked up something fun together.. Well actually that is not even entirely true as Charlotte is also part of our cooking club so it’s not really that long, but cooking with more then two/three in this case does not count.. [...]

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Macaroni gratin with walnuts

by Simone (junglefrog) on February 19, 2011 · 17 comments

in Food and Drink, Italian, Recipes

Sometimes I start making a recipe and I have an idea in my head on how it is gonna taste… Sometimes that idea is correct and sometimes I just get blown away by the flavors in a taste that far exceeds my expectations. This is such a dish. It seems incredibly simple and well, it [...]

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Making pasta!!

by Simone (junglefrog) on August 25, 2010 · 29 comments

in Food and Drink

I am a little bit shocked to find out that it has been more then three weeks since I last wrote a post!! I must have been really busy to neglect my pour little blog so much. It’s not that I don’t want to write, it’s just that I hardly have time to cook, let [...]

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Fettucine a la Simone

by Simone (junglefrog) on July 12, 2010 · 26 comments

in Food and Drink, Italian, Recipes

It doesn’t really happen very often that I use a recipe to make pasta. To me it is just the perfect meal when we need something quick, tasty and want to use whatever we have in the fridge or closet. So that is also the way that this fettucini came to live…. It’s hot here [...]

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It’s been forever since I last cooked something for the Cooking Italy group which is all about the wonderful book “The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking” by Marcella Hazan. You know how things like that go; in between cooking for the Daring Cooks, the Daring Bakers and various other cooking groups and challenges… it almost [...]

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Creamy pasta; then and now…

by Simone (junglefrog) on March 2, 2010 · 28 comments

in Food and Drink, Italian, Recipes

It’s been almost one and a half year ago that I last made this dish… Where did time go?? I cannot believe it is that long but here we are in 2010 and I made this before in 2008… The recipe comes originally from the book “Rond de wereld in 80 recepten” (around the world [...]

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Tagliatelle with saffron, bacon and peas

by Simone (junglefrog) on February 24, 2010 · 22 comments

in Food and Drink, Italian, Recipes

What I sometimes like to do and I am sure I have told this before, but o well, I am getting old so then it is allowed to repeat onces self (within reason ofcourse..lol) When I need to work in the studio I sometimes decide I want to prepare a nice lunch; first to eat [...]

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