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Lasagne alla Valerie (Bolognese-style)

By On April 11, 2010 · 18 Comments

First off, Italian lesson. Lasagne, the spell checker keeps trying to correct it to lasagna. The spell-checker is wrong. Lasagna is 1 sheet of the pasta you use to make lasagne. Lasagne is a dish with multiple sheets of lasagna with sauce in between.

So I don’t want to call my lasagne ‘alla [...]

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Fried fennel

By On March 30, 2010 · 19 Comments

So after the crappy crappy basil butter picture I posted yesterday, L took today’s picture again! Yay! Today’s dinner was Tuscan sausages, pommes duchesse and fried fennel. Now usually I make fennel baked, in a casserole, but I figured I’d change it up a little today. (That and I didn’t have all the ingredients for [...]

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Everybody loves sandwiches…

By On March 28, 2010 · 23 Comments

At least in this house we do! Especially when made with awesome home-made bread and the last of the awesome tomatoes I got last Friday. Seriously, I LOVE these tomatoes. I’ve said it before, but they actually smell and taste like tomato, something that’s hard to come by these days.

The problem [...]

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Uovo in cocotte ai porri (leek with egg)

By On March 20, 2010 · 32 Comments

After all the work on arranging this site and it’s layout, I wanted something easy to make for dinner. Easy, yet tasty and with ingredients I actually had (yes, the store was closed by the time I was happy with the layout).

Fortunately I still had a leek and eggs!

When I left my [...]

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