Here is a recipe on making anchovy pasta sauce. Recently I have been making my own pasta. Chicken noodle soupI have added some tuna to make it more substantial but feel to free to omit it out. Anchovy pasta is a Venetian speciality sauce. It is very easy to make. Bigoli is pasta that is […]
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After much debating and justifying to myself I bought a DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera recently. With new technologies available on DSLR camera it just makes life so much easier for me. Compared to the old days where I am mostly depending on my smartphone (it’s an iphone SE). Comparing with an old digital
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It’s December which means it’s harvesting time for oca tubers. Oca tubers are also known as New Zealand yam and oca tuberosa. At the moment it is still not available to buy in supermarkets in the UK. However, the tubers are sold on eBay for planting between September and December. It is priced according to
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Here is a recipe of how to make wonton soup. Wonton soup (i馄饨汤 Húntún tāng) is basically Chinese style ravioli with Chinese based ingredients. The pastry is thinner than ravioli so that is why it is much better to buy shop bought ones rather than making at home using the pasta making machine. There are
With the cold winter weather I love drinking nice warm drinks. I have been making mulled wine recently Homemade mulled wine and here is a twist to that recipe Mulled cider. While researching for mulled cider recipe I found out that cider is known as apple juice in the US and hard cider is cider.
Who would have thought that this weed Tagetes minuta easily grown in the UK makes a good dye. It has grown so high and so much that I don’t know what do with it initially. It has got a strong mint smell as one walks past. I have to yet to decide on what recipes
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Recently I have harvested some olives from trees in the village at Italy. It’s not a lot of olives I manage to harvest. As there are only a handful of olive trees that I could harvest easily by hand. Olive harvest We got an olive tree at home back in London. Although we had a