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April 2016

My grandma’s lemon chicken.

My grandma's lemon chicken.

Here if you speak about lemon chicken mind goes to some cheap Chinese restaurants dishes made of pale meat and slimy sauce.

My lemon chicken is different, this is my grandma’s chicken, she gave me the recipe step by step when she still was ok and it’s the best second course you can make.

Ok, maybe my opinion is affected by all the memories I have but please try it and let me know, I really think it’s great.

I love lemon so much but strangerly I prefer it in salty preparations and not in sweets and desserts.

I’m sorry I’m really concise in this post but I’m working on a long review of a resort where we spent this long week end: I have a lot of things to write (good things as I never post comments on places I disliked, I think it’s not fair).

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My grandma's lemon chicken.
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My grandma's lemon chicken.

Sparkling water carrots.

Sparkling water carrots.

Sparkling water carrots.

I devoted the last two days to cooking something new for the blog, I need some good things to post in the next days as I will be very busy preparing 6 new recipes for a partnership I’ve accepted.

I’m always very happy when someone trusts me enough to offer me a work on a product: this time it’s something special as I can say I grew up with it and it’s part of my DNA.

I can’t say anything more that this but within few months you’ll learn what I’m working on.

I can only say hubby will have to taste something outside his dieting plan.

I cooked only easy and healthy things for the blog posts, food that is part of our weekly meals, nothing here is non tested or “fake”!

The first time I’ve tried those carrots I was at my mum’s; on the web you can find a lot of recipes about sparkling water carrots so I don’t know if there an “original recipe” that worth a mention, I added some spices and herbs to enhance the flavour.

The peculiarity of those carrots is a creamy texture, it could be highlighted adding a spoon of sugar few minutes before the end of cooking.

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Sparkling water carrots.
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  1. Cut the carrots in not too thick rounds.
  2. Heat oil (or butter) in a pan and sautee carrots with ginger for few minutes.
  3. Add sparkling water, cover the pan and cook on low fire untill the water is fully evaporated.
  4. If, when water is totally dissolved, the carrots are still hard, just add some water and continue cooking.
  5. Few minutes before the end of cooking add salt, pepper and thyme leaves.

Sparkling water carrots.

 

Wholewheat noodles with dry tomato’s pesto, smoked paprika and chives.

Wholewheat noodles with dry tomato's pesto, smoked paprika and chives.

Few weeks ago the marketing staff from Luciana Mosconi ( Italian brand leader of dry egg pasta) asked me for some recipes with their products: even if I’m a fresh pasta lover, I have the chance to use wooden rollpin and cutting board from my grand-grand mother and I still have a mother-in-law who still makes fresh egg noodles every sunday by hand I find the possibility to store some egg pasta ready to use is often more than useful, it’s redeeming.

I’m not the kind of person who refuses large scale products, they just have to come from a factory/ brand I trust.

In this recipe I used wholewheat noodles as the wholewheat pasta is hard to spread, it’s soft and prone to holes and to stick to the rollpin.

We can say Luciana saved me a lot of work! 🙂

I have just a couple of photos of the dish because I was too focused doing what the staff asked me to take some pictures just for the blog, I hope you can understand. 😉

This little set back is going to include also the other recipe I made.

If I may say so myself they both turned out very well: created, tried, adjusted and now ready for you.

Let’s start with the first one.

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Wholewheat noodles with dry tomato's pesto, smoked paprika and chives.
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Instructions
  1. Blend sundried tomatoes with their oil or some olive oil until you have a smooth pesto.
  2. Add smoked paprika and mix well.
  3. Boil pasta into salted water, drain noodles and keep some of the water aside.
  4. Season pasta with pesto, if it's too thick add few spoons of cooking water.
  5. Sprinkle with chives and serve immediately.

 

Wholewheat noodles with dry tomato's pesto, smoked paprika and chives.

 

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