Happee Monkee

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Posts Tagged ‘Italian’

Ricotta & Rocket Gnocchi in Tomato Sauce & Bacon

By • Oct 27th, 2011 • Category: What's Cooking

So, Miss B. is on a three-week gluten-free diet. But before I go on, I digress by saying, the blender blew up. There was a really loud POP! and the only way I knew it wasn’t the bacon fat sizzling was the gradual smoke snaking from the blender. I hope my FIL isn’t too attached [...]



Spaghetti with Bacon & Cherry Tomatoes

By • Oct 18th, 2011 • Category: What's Cooking

One of the things I’d discovered in Italy was that great food is often made with very few ingredients. The fresher, obviously, the better and less was, in fact, enough. In this recipe there are four main ingredients – cherry tomatoes, bacon, mushroom and garlic. Cherry tomatoes to sweeten the sauce, bacon to add saltiness, [...]



Eggplant & Mushroom Cannelloni

By • Oct 11th, 2011 • Category: What's Cooking

Hooray! I get to use my new swanky Svenskt Tenn place mat. I have been in love with Svenskt Tenn since I interviewed them for an article back in 2008. Everything is so marvelously stylish at Svenskt Tenn and, of course, as all brilliant things do, they come with a generous price tag. I have [...]