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The other day I started a thread on my forum called “The best pizza ideas”. We all know the dilemma! What to put on that pizza? Therefore I thought it would be nice with a loooong list of great pizza ideas…
Well, I think I will start by posting the 3 first ideas from the thread:
1. Pizza with onions, chorizo sausage, fresh mozzarella and egg.
2. Pizza “Fruit de Mer” with mussels, shrimps and lemon.
3. Calzone with mozzarella, beef, red pepper and gorgonzola cheese.
You can see further descriptions in the forum thread. …
Baking, Countries, Dinner, Featured, Italian, Lunch, Pizza »
The last pizza recipe I posted here on the blog, “An easy way to make pizzas“, wasn’t quite the best. Don’t misunderstand me, it is good! It’s just not the best. I was very busy and had to find out the easiest way to make a pizza. Today’s pizza recipe is far better. It consists of a very nice pizza dough, red pepper, onions, mushrooms and a nice pepperoni/salami. The dough itself is a little more complicated this time, not much, just a little bit. The nice thing about this …
Baking, Countries, Dinner, Featured, Italian, Lunch, Pizza »
This is an easy way to make good tasting, crispy pizzas, without spending a whole day doing it. The dough is very easy to make and the tomato sauce is the $1 version from the supermarket (the one in my supermarket is quite good actually). The fill is just everything you like, or already have in your fridge. Today I have choose to make 3 regular pizzas with a tasty pepperoni and a good fresh mozzarella cheese, and also a calzone, with cheese, ham and tomatoes (unfortunately I didn’t manage …
Countries, Dinner, Italian, Rice »
Risotto is the most common rice dish in Italy. The original risotto comes from northern Italy, and is one of the most popular dishes in Milano. There are thousands of different ways to cook a risotto. This recipe contains one of them, one with chicken. Actually you can put almost everything you like in your risotto, sort of like a pizza. In old times, the Italians put just what they have in the risotto, fish, meat, vegetables etc. The factor which decides if something is a risotto or not, is …
Countries, Dinner, Italian »
Today’s dish is inspired by Italy, which is one of my favorite countries. The dish is very easy to cook and it doesn’t contain that much fat, although it tastes very good.
Here is what you need (4 persons):
400 g pasta (farfalle – the one, which looks like butterflies)
3 leeks
About 6 slices of dried ham
1.5 dl cheap white wine
1 teaspoon of sweet French mustard
2 dl crème fraiche
Grated mozzarella cheese
Some chives
Salt and pepper
Boil the farfalles in salted water, with some olive oil added. Slice the leeks and fry them in a pot, …

