Gourmet Weekend in Florence
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Practical cookery courses at our home in the heart of the Florence hills for people who are passionate about culinary art, who want to rediscover age-old flavours and the typical products of Tuscany and Liguria
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| Italian and tuscan recipes from the Web... |
| Orange tart |
| Orange tart: a fantastic tart made with short pastry and filled with fresh orange slices and pastry cream. Winter cake recipe. Read more ...
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| Ricotta pie |
| Ricotta cake with no short pastry. It is made with ricotta, flour, sugar, eggs, chocolate, sultanas. All the ingredients are stirred together.Read more ...
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| Pasta with broccoli |
| Traditional light recipe according to the Medieterranean diet. Pasta tossed with broccoli sauce. Nutrition facts per serving.Read more ...
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| Pasta with broccoli and canned crab meat |
| Sicilian pastasciutta. Pasta tossed with broccoli and crab meat sauce. Surprise your guests with a tasty but an easy made Italian dish. Nutrition facts per serving.Read more ...
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| Cauliflower pasta, Sicily-style |
| Sicilian pasta recipe made with rigatoni or bucatini tossed with cauliflower, pine nuts, sultanas, saffron and anchovies. No tomato pasta recipe.Read more ...
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| Pasta with cauliflower |
| Pasta with cauliflower. Step-by-step instructions to make this pasta dish whose ingredients are cauliflower, anchovy fillets and capers. No tomato sauce.Read more ...
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| Mackerel in tomato sauce |
Scombri in salsa di pomodoro. The “tomato sauce” in this recipe is really a tomato flavoured poaching liquid. The recipe appears to contain an awful lot of oil, but you wont actually be eating much of the sauce, so it’s not as bad as it seems.Serve warm or cold. Serves 4.
1 kg Mackerel – cleaned.
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| Baked anchovies |
Alici arracanate. From Puglia. There is probably not much chance of finding fresh anchovies in the UK, but if you do, this is a good recipe to try. It takes a fair bit of preparation, but it’s worth it in the end. You need to clean them as soon as you get them home as [...] [News from: ] |
| Simple beef roulades |
| Simple beef rolls made with an omelette and aromatic olive oil. Step by step instructions to make Italian-style rolls.Read more ...
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| Bavette with clams and courgettes |
Bavette alle vongole e zucchine. This is a nice alternative to the standard spaghetti alle vongole recipe. Serves 4.
320g bavette
800g clams
1 shallot – finely chopped
1 clove garlic – peeled, whole
1 chilli (fresh or dried) or to taste
300g courgettes – cut into match sticks
1 tbsp chopped parsley
100ml dry white wine
200g tomatoes – peeled and diced
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