KITCHEN IN THE SAND

• Spicy creamy carrot soup with carasau bread 8 years ago If you follow my Instagram account @francesca_verrucci you'd probably noticed that I make soups, mainly of the creamy variety, very often.But I have almost no soup recipe published on the blog so far (with the exception of this pappa al pomodoro). And the reason is that in most cases my soups are...
• Roasted Cauliflower and Almond Salad 8 years ago It's an ongoing challenge between me and cauliflower!I've said before that cauliflower is not my favorite vegetable (details here and here). You will say: why do you keep buying it when there are many other vegetables available? I don't know exactly. But the good thing is that, when I buy it, I am...
• Beetroot and purslane salad with orange dressing 8 years ago Unfortunately at this time of the year it is quite difficult to find fresh beetroots to cook from scratch.In fact they are harvested between the end of summer and the beginning of autumn and then kept for the rest of the year (somehow like potatoes). Yesterday for example I found some fresh beets...
• Hummus (basic recipe) 8 years ago Having spent few years in the Middle East, I've had many occasions to eat hummus.Hummus is in fact a staple in the Middle East, where it is widely and easily available: you can taste it in most restaurants and cafes (and not only those serving middle eastern cuisine) or buy it fresh from...
• My recipe for Social Kitchen: lemon flavored spaghetti with clams, zucchini and bottarga 8 years ago It seems that it took me quite a long time to settle my kitchen out of the sand!The last time I wrote here on the blog (apparently four months ago, sigh) I was probably too optimistic about the fact that we would have found an apartment and, most important, settled in the new house in a decently...

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