member blog: allora andiamo
allora andiamo
From
Sauerkraut Country
Member since
6th Oct 2008
About
I'm 42 years young and LOVE cooking. My family is originally from Italy and my Mum was a fantastic cook. She cooked us the most wonderful dishes and I have fond memories of sitting round the dinner table with my family, eating great food that had been prepared with one very special ingredient...LOVE. This is still important to me today and I could never just throw a ready meal in the microwave and serve it up to my family. I think good food isn't about expensive ingredients or making plates look like works of art but about making food that's tasty and will make your friends and family come back for seconds :)
Oh and we tend to eat mostly Italian in our house but I will try anything and everything that looks and tastes good :) If the food i've made looks good i'll take a piccy of it too,much to the annoyance of my hubby,who will have to wait patiently whilst i take the umpteenth photo,lol.
allora andiamo's blog posts
Spinach Risotto
Mon 09 Nov 2009GENERAL BLOG
a creamy risotto (red onion,butter,wine,stock,parmesan) finished off with some fresh spinach 
simple and good 
Cranberry & Vanilla Muffins
Mon 09 Nov 2009GENERAL BLOG
made with dried cranberries, bourbon vanilla and a sprinkling of raw cane sugar flavoured with cinnamon ..i'll try and get the recipe uploaded ASAP
pussycat,pussycat, where have you been ?
Sun 08 Nov 2009GENERAL BLOG
cos i've been in the kitchen
making you a terrine 
whilst roaming round a book shop in town yesterday, i came across a little book of cat food recipes...i made a mental note of a couple of the recipes and decided to try one out as soon as i got home..the one i chose is a Chicken Terrine made using chicken wing meat,chopped carrots,tiny pasta shapes and finely chopped parsley, which i filled into old cat food foil containers then covered with aspic (stock + gelatine)...the cat thinks it's the bees knees ...i just hope he doesn't think that he's going to get this kind of treatment every day of the week 
turkish bread with meatballs and salad
Sun 08 Nov 2009GENERAL BLOG
i made up some meatballs with beef and pork mince, flavoured with onion,garlic,chillis,cummin, coriander and garam masala, then served them some turkish bread stuffed with rocket salad,sliced pepper, red onions, toms,cucumber, harissa and a simple yoghurt sauce..easy peasy and soooooo yummy 
Alex's favourite food
Sat 07 Nov 2009GENERAL BLOG
a kind of stracciatella soup, made extra thick and creamy cos that's how he likes it 
i usually use chicken stock but today i used the lovely veal stock that i had leftover from making yesterdays veal dish
this used to be Alex's favourite food when he was a baby/toddler and he'd still eat it three times a day if i let him !
allora andiamo's foodwise posts
