Abóbora gostosa means delicious pumpkin in Portuguese, so you can find some recipes with pumpkin on this blog. Also other recipes, and a few other snippets that I like to share with you.
05 June 2008
Biologists' dinner
Last month we had another biologists' dinner.
With delicious cavaillon melon and ham
and pizza in two versions
one for the kids
and one for the adults (I'm glad to be an adult)
and for dessert I baked a crostata di marmellata with fresh apricots.
After this we participated in a walk combined with theatre for kids, organised by Bronks,
in which I humiliated myself with a football in front of a bunch of very good football players.
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Really great posts. Your simple delight with endives is mouthwatering, I'm going to try your basic recipe.
Cooking is a way of relaxing for me.
Already as a kid I loved food. I had a sweet tooth and I started making desserts and baking all kinds of cakes, cookies, pies and pizza.
I taught myself as my mother wasn’t very much into desserts.
My grandfather was though, and we wrote to each other exchanging recipes. After his death my grandmother gave me his notebook with dessert recipes.
Most of my mother’s family are real foodies and very good cooks.
My cooking is not very sophisticated. I like to use good quality ingredients, preferably typical for the season and even better still, coming from someone’s garden.
A few favourites are: pumpkin, sweet potato, Jerusalem artichoke, chestnuts, quince and also really basic ones like potatoes and onion.
I like to make stews, broths and soups.
I still bake occasionally, once in a while something spectacular for which the dough needs to rise for hours.
My cooking bible is Claudia Roden’s ‘The book of Jewish food’, which is popular with my friends and family. It’s a neverending resource of recipes from all over the world, also with less common ingredients, and every dish just tastes delicious.
3 comments:
Really great posts. Your simple delight with endives is mouthwatering, I'm going to try your basic recipe.
Just finished the leftovers, shlurps
am so jealous- the tarte looks simply delicious.
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