The Tortolani&Squinzio's Kitchen

Pesto a modo mio

2011-05-09T11:02:00.000-07:00

Pesto in my own way

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

0.070 oz garlic

1.760 oz pine nuts

1.060 oz spicy provolone

2.115 oz grana padano

1.060 oz basil leaves

1.060 oz parsley leaves

2.115 oz water

0.530 oz extra virgin olive oil

14.110 oz pasta

salt to taste

black pepper to taste

Procedure

Boil water for pasta.

Mix 0.070 oz of garlic and 1.760 oz of pine nuts to obtain a powder.

Leave the garlic and pine nuts in the mix and add them 2.225 oz of grana padano and 1.060 oz of spicy provolone and mix them. They make a powder.

Always leaving all the ingredients in the mix, add 1.060 oz of parsley and 1.060 oz of basil leaves. Also add 2.115 oz of water and mix them.

Finished mixing, put it all into a bowl and mix well with a spoon and adding in it 0.530 oz of extra virgin olive oil, salt and black pepper to taste.

When the water boiling, add 14.110 oz pasta twists or you want.

Dress pasta with pesto serve it immediately.

Tagliatelle Paglia e Fieno con ragù e piselli

2011-04-11T09:18:00.000-07:00

Hay and Straw Noodles with meat sauce and peas

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

14.110 oz hay and straw noodles

7.055 oz minced veal meal

3.530 oz peas

35 'ciliegini' tomatoes at cubes

1 onion

1 cup of 'prosecco' white wine

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

1 sprig of basil

parsley

salt and black pepper to taste

Procedure

Boil water in a pot for pasta.

In a pan put a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil,1/2 chopped onion and let it gilt.

Add 7.055 oz minced veal, add salt to taste and ½ cup of prosecco white wine.

Cook it over medium heat for 5 minutes.

In another pan, put a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, ½ chopped onion and let it gild.

Then add in it 3.530 oz of peas ½ cup of prosecco white wine salt and a bit of finely chopped persley.

Let it cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.

Add the meat to 35 ciliegini tomatoes at cubes and cook 15 minutes over medium heat.

Cook the pasta according to package directions.

Drain the pasta and dress it with meat sauce and peas.

Sprinkle it with chopped basil and black pepper.

Serve it immediately.

Linguine fesa di pollo e pomodori pachino

2011-04-01T02:44:00.000-07:00

(Linguine chicken breast and pachino tomatoes)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

14.110 oz linguine

14.110 oz chicken breast

1/2 glass of 'prosecco' white wine

1 carrot

1 piece of celery

1/2 onion

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

30 'pachino' tomatoes

1 bunch of parsley

1 bunch of basil

1 teaspoon curry powder

salt and black pepper to taste

Procedure

Grab a pot and boil water for pasta.

Put the chicken breast strips in a large pat with a carrot, a piece of celery and ½ onion all cut into cubes, a teaspoon of curry powder, cover it with 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil salt to taste.

When it is browned, put in it 1/2 glass or prosecco white wine and let evaporate.

In the pan add the 'pachino' tomatoes cut into cubes and salt to taste and let cook it for 8 minutes.

Add the pasta to the pot and cook 9 minutes about, drain it and mix it with the sauce.

Add a chopped of parsley and basil.

Add a dash of black pepper.

Serve it immediately.

Tagliatelle al salmone affumicato

2011-03-16T10:53:00.000-07:00

(Tagliatelle with smoked salmon)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

14.110 oz egg noodles

8.818 oz smoked salmon

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

1.760 oz white wine

½ onion

1 clove garlic

4 sprigs rosemary

4 sprigs sage

1 tuft of parsley

1 teaspoon curry powder

28.220 oz sauce bottle

salt and black pepper to taste

Procedure

Put in a pot 141.010 oz of water, add a tablespoon of salt and bring it to a boil.

Pour into a pan 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, add ½ onion and a clove of garlic, chopped.

Chop the rosemary, sage, parsley and pour them into the pan, when they are brown add the salmon, cut into strips and cook 3 minutes.

Add 1.760 oz white wine and let it evaporate for 3 minutes.

Add the sauce, curry powder, 1 teaspoon of salt and black pepper to taste, let it cook for 30 minutes.

Pour the pasta and cook it . Drain the pasta, pour it in a plate, mix it well with the sauce and serve it immediately.

Homemade fresh egg pasta

14.100 oz flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

4 eggs

Get a ball, spread it very thin and flour.

Folding the sheet obtained and cut into strips.

Pour into a pot and boil for 1 minutes.

Drain them and dress them.

Fantasia di zucchine

2011-03-09T04:23:00.000-08:00

(Fantasy of Zucchini)

Ingredients

21.17 oz zucchini
3.5 oz chopped black olives
3.5 oz chopped anchovies in oil
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oi1
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 grated lemon
salt to taste

Procedure

In a large pot of boiling, salad water (about 70.550 oz of water).

Cut the zucchini, long 3.9 inches and high 0.120 inches (it's most important to cut fine it).

Pour it in boiling water and cook it for 4 minutes than drain and pass it under cold water. Dry it with paper towels.

Pour the zucchini in a salad bowl and dress it with the others ingredients into the recipe.

Mix gently and cover it with a lid for 1 hour (let it stand for 1 hour).

You can serve it as a starter, side dish of white meat,

roast or fish.

(This is for 4 people)

the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day

2011-03-08T07:54:00.000-08:00

Good Women's Day

Alici speziate

2011-02-20T12:25:00.000-08:00

(Spicy anchovies)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

28.220 oz fresh anchovies

7.055 oz flour

1 lemon

½ tablespoon curry powder

½ tablespoon paprika

1 pinch of cinnamon powder

1 pinch of aniseed

10.580 oz soybean oil

salt to taste

Procedure

Clean the anchovies, remove the heads, viscera and bones. Wash them with cold water.

Put them in a pot with cold water and lemon juice for 2 minutes. Drain the anchovies with colander.

Mix in the flour half a tablespoon of curry powder, half a tablespoon of paprika, a pinch of cinnamon and anise seeds.

Dip the anchovies in the flour one by one and put them on a sheet of baking paper.

In a large skillet pour 10.580 oz of soybean oil in it the zest of half lemon cut in strips, heat the oil over medium heat and allow to brown the lemon peel.

Add the anchovies well distributed in the pan and cook them 4 minutes on one side and 4 minutes on the other.

Drain them on paper towels and add salt to taste.

Anchovies can be served with mixed salad, bean salad, tomato salad dressed with extra virgin olive oil, salt, oregano and half a clove of garlic.

Important:

I noticed that frying using soybean oil makes the food healthier, light and crisp. Try it then tell me what you think!!!

FORMAGGIO PRIMO SALE DORATO

2011-02-16T14:43:00.000-08:00

(Primo Sale Golden Cheese)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

14.100 oz primo sale cheese

5.290 oz corn flour for precooked polenta

1.760 oz soybean oil

0.350 oz aniseed

salt to taste

PROCEDURE

Cut cheese into long 3.9 inches and thick 0.390 inches square slices.

Moisten it with a little water. Pass it in 5.290 oz corn flour and mixed with 0.350 oz of aniseed.

Grease well with 1.760 oz of soybean oil the pan and put it over high heat to make it heat well.

Put slices of cheese in the pan far apart and let it gild 4 minutes on one side and the other 4 minutes.

Serve it hot at the table with vegetables such as broccoli or tomatoes.

Extra virgin olive oil can be replaced with soybean oil to make food lighter and easier to digest.

Correcting, if salt.

SPEZZATINO DI POLPA E VITELLO

2011-02-16T14:35:00.000-08:00

(VEAL STEW MEAT)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

14.100 oz veal meat

1 carrot

1 peace of celery

½ onion

½ garlic clove

1.8 oz prosecco white wine

1.8 oz extra virgin olive oil

8 basil leaves

1dusting black pepper (pepe nero)

1 pinch of salt

17.7 oz tomatoes

1 red capsicum

10.6 oz potatoes (no sweet potatoes)

Procedure

Put in a large pot 1.8 oz of extra virgin olive oil, grind a peace of celery, onion, garlic clove and let them gild.

Add diced veal, at medium heat, let it gild and when it's dried, add wine and let it evaporate.

Add a pinch of salt.

Red capsicum and the potatoes dicing, pour it into the meat, mix it and let vegetables flavors for 3 minutes.

Add tomatoes diced into the veal.

Add hot water to cover all ingredients.

Cook the ingredients at medium heat for 40 minutes.

Add a black pepper dusting and 8 basil leaves.

Serve it at table.

SPAGHETTI AGLIO, OLIO, PEPERONCINO E ACCIUGHE SOTT'OLIO

2011-02-16T14:27:00.000-08:00

(spaghetti with garlic, olive oil, chili and anchovies in oil)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

14.100 oz durum wheat spaghetti

1.8oz extra virgin olive oil

1 garlic clove

1 crushed chili

1 parsley

3.6 oz anchovies in oil

1.8 oz prosecco white wine

1 pinch of salt

Procedure

In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook spaghetti about 8 minutes until it is ' al dente''.

Meanwhile in a large pan put 1.8 oz extra virgin olive oil, garlic clove sliced and crushed chili.

Put the pan at low heat until garlic gild.

Add anchovies chopped, let it brown .

Add 1.8 oz prosecco white wine and let it evaporate.

Freshly cooked it's 'al dente', drain the spaghetti and pour it in the pan with the other ingredients.

If it is too dry, add to 3 tablespoons pasta water.

Wait at table immediately!

Important:

Don't add any kind of cheese because the original recipe does not have it!!!!!!!

SPAGHETTI AL TONNO E OLIVE NERE

2011-02-16T14:14:00.000-08:00

(Spaghetti tuna and black olives)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

14.110 oz spaghetti

7.055 oz tuna in oil

3.530 oz pitted black olives

7.055 oz tomato sauce

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon curry

1 tablespoon oregano

salt to taste

Procedure

Pour into a pan 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 3.530 oz of black olives cut into rings.

Cook them 3 minutes and add well drained tuna oil, cook it another 3 minutes and add 7.055 oz tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon curry, 1 tablespoon oregano and salt.

105.820 oz of water to boiling in a pot, pour into it the spaghetti and cook them 6 minutes, drain the spaghetti and transfer them to a serving dish, add the sauce and serve it.

BROCCOLI SICILIANI

2011-02-15T07:34:00.000-08:00

(Sicilian Broccoli)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

4 Sicilian broccoli

1 red onion

1 lemon

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or soybean oil

5.290 oz pitted black lives

½ cup vinegar

1 pinch of curry

salt to taste

Procedure

In a large pot, boiling water (about 105.820 oz) with half cup vinegar and 1 tablespoon salt.

Cut the tops of the broccoli and wash it very well.

When the water boils, pour in it the broccoli for half an hour of cooking.( Broccoli should be tender).

Drain and place it in a dish.

Cut black olives and red onion into rings. The lemon in slices.

Dress the broccoli with black olives, red onion, oil, curry powder and salt to taste.

Garnish it with lemon slices and serve it.

FESA DI TACCHINO GRIGLIATA CON SPEZIE

2011-02-15T07:11:00.000-08:00

(GRILED TURKEY BREAST WITH SPICES)

(This is for 4 people)

Ingredients

28.220 oz turkey breast

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

2 tablespoons powder ginger

1 tablespoon powder cinnamon

10 crushed juniper berries

1 lemon squeezed

salt to taste

POCEDURE

Pour in a pan lemon squeezed, 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons powder ginger, 1 tablespoon powder cinnamon, 10 crushed juniper berries and mix them.

Cut into slices 0.40 inches high of turkey breast.

Put in a bowl the slices overlapping of turkey breast and dress each layers with spices.

Marinate meat 1 hour.

Heat the grill well, cook meat 5 minutes on one side and the other 5 minutes.

Put it in serving dish, add salt and a little extra virgin olive oil.