Tag: pasta
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Vegetable Ragu: A Frugal Italian Delight
This vegetable ragu is known as fake sauce (sugo finto) and is a great example of cuisina povera or the frugal food of Italy. In this vegetarian ragu sauce, meat is replaced with vegetables. The flavor is layered into the sauce with a slow cooked soffritto of onions, carrots and celery, which is deglazed with…
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Easy Biber Salçası Recipe: Homemade Turkish Pepper Paste
Biber Salçası (Turkish red pepper paste) is widely used in Turkish cooking in much the same way you would use tomato paste. Traditionally the peppers are sun dried before being ground into a paste. This simplified, homemade version of biber salçası comes from Ozlem Warren’s brilliant new cookbook Sebze. Red bell peppers are slowly simmered…
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Marcella Hazan’s Essential Tomato Sauce Recipe
This tomato sauce with onion and butter is from Marcella Hazan is astonishingly simple and delicious. It’s been posted a million times on various food blogs and raved about countless times, but that’s no reason not to do so again. I’ve made this sauce many times over the years, it reminds me of the spaghetti…
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Delicious Vegetarian Minestrone Soup Recipe
I haven’t posted for a while, for couple of reasons – firstly, I’ve been madly busy but, secondly and most importantly, it’s been so unseasonably, ridiculously hot over the past month, with a record-breaking run of temperatures over 26°C for weeks on end. Global warming sucks and makes a mockery of all the change of…
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Macaroni Peas: Fast, Easy, and Delicious Recipe from River Cottage Veg
I really didn’t know much about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall until I started reading his book River Cottage Veg, Everyday! From his introduction, I gathered he was some kind of British TV foodie and something of a notorious carnivore of the hunt-shoot-and-fish-your-own variety. In recent years, he’s become evangelical on the need to eat more veggies for…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 