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In a previous post i described my experience in preparing some homemade pasta. That same evening i also challenged myself in preparing something somewhat more complicated so here are the chronicles of my experiment. Please note that in this article i will not speak about the traditional recipe, but of my own personal experience.

So… what are we talking about? Well… ravioli!

Continue reading Recipe: Homemade pasta - Part 2 -

This may be obvious to most people but it’s always good to point this out.

Unsharp knives are much more dangerous than sharp ones!

For two main reasons that combine:

• it’s easy to loose control of an unsharp knife
• using unsharp knives you need to apply more strength

So be careful and keep you knives sharp!

For some people cooking is just a necessity, but if you follow my rants on this blog it may be because cooking is for you a pleasing way to pass your time. We all know that most students have more time than money, but this time i will break the rule and talk about something that is actually cheaper to buy when it’s already made: pasta! This may not be totally true anyway because the result that you will taste will justify all the time and few extra money spent to do it. Not to mention that doing this with some friends is great fun.

Continue reading Recipe: Homemade pasta - Part 1 -

In short: the more you cook it the better it will taste!

In the beginning it will taste sour but with time it will taste sweeter and sweeter. Another good trick is to look at the color: when it will start getting orange it means it’s ready. Just taste it and decide if you want to cook it even longer. It’s up to your personal taste.

So you have a date uh?
And you want to invite him/her over for dinner right?
Do you have some minced meat in your refrigerator? Yes? Well, then maybe i can help you!

Continue reading Recipe: Spaghetti with tomato and meatballs

Always prefer fat meat. It will be cheaper, more tasty and not too dry! Yes, most of the taste lies in the fat part of the meat!

Yeah i know, this was predictable!

Well, what do you need to make some good lasagne?

Continue reading Recipe: Lasagne

Well, simply because in all these years spent on the net i did not find something dedicated to students or simply people who can’t or don’t want to spend a lot of money to have some decent freshly prepared food.

It’s a challenging task, but it’s can also come in a handy! We all have friends and it’s so nice to meet them for dinner but… Well, restaurants are simply too expensive, and cooking according to those nice coated pages recipe books can be almost as expensive.

What i will try to do here is to share what i have learnt in all these years. I’m Italian so most of the recipes i will present here have such a background, but i also like to experiment and try new things so i might surprise you sometimes.

I hope you will have fun, both reading this blog and in the kitchen! Here it comes the first recipe!