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FXcuisine FXcuisine Spectacular recipes and food experiences by a Swiss home chef. High quality articles with beautiful step-by-step pictures of each recipe or visit. Not your usual food blog. Warmly recommended! Articles
Cholera Beats Cornish Pasty Any Day!
2007-10-29 09:34:00 These Swiss Alpine pie "cholera" tastes infinitely better than Cornish Pasties but neither made it to the exclusive club of export-grade food specialties of Europe. More About: Beats , Pasty , Nish
Sicilian Almond Sorbet
2007-10-26 04:14:00 The most delicate sorbet of them all, and you don"t even need an ice-cream machine! More About: Almond , Sicilia
Moldavian Pig Slaughter
2007-10-23 09:14:00 A friend brought me back pictures of a Mold avian family slaugthering a pig at home much like it was done all over Europe 100 year ago. Not for the faint-hearted. More About: Laugh , Moldavia , Slaughter
Malakoff - Swiss Deep-Fried Cheese Sticks
2007-10-23 08:09:00 These deep-fried cheese sticks named after the taking of Mala koff during the Crimean war are the most delicious deep-fried calorie bomb I ever tried. More About: Cheese , Deep , Swiss , Fried
I love meatballs!
2007-10-17 06:22:00 Spaghetti with meatballs is the consumate Italian-American dish, but it doesn't exist as such in Italy. Here is how an Italian would cook it. More About: Love , Meatballs
Spaghetti in Squid Ink Sauce
2007-10-16 13:29:00 Legendary dish in black squid ink sauce. Highly addictive and not easily forgotten. More About: Sauce , Squid , Spaghetti
Fry Eggplants Like a Sicilian Mama
2007-10-15 13:36:00 Few people can fry eggplants and not end up with an oily sponge. See how Sicilan cookbook author and TV chef Eleonora Consoli does it in her own kitchen on Mount Etna in Sicily! More About: Mama , Eggplant , Sicilia
Spelt Pappardelle with Grouse Sauce
2007-10-04 12:46:00 Homemade freshly-milled spelt flour noodles in a century-old sauce from a grouse that came with the feathers. Quite an experience! More About: Sauce
Homemade Garganelli Pasta
2007-09-28 07:55:00 Thanks to a tiny a garganelli comb ordered from Italy I was able to make these legendary hand-rolled penne. A treat! More About: Pasta
Deep-Fried Pizza 2 - Scotland
2007-09-19 08:22:00 A northern cousin of the Neapolitan deep-fried pizza, this proud member of the Scottish Diet makes one nutritious snack. More About: Scotland , Pizza , Deep , Fried
Ember-Roasted Peppers in Olive Oil
2007-09-18 10:12:00 Extraordinary dish prepared directly over hot embers to make a memorable starter in the purest tradition of Mediterranean simplicity. More About: Olive Oil , Peppers , Olive , Live O
A Sicilian Cookery Class on Mount Etna
2007-09-18 08:17:00 Sicily's top food authority let me into her kitchen on Mount Etna while she was preparing sweet-and-sour peppers. More About: Class , Sicilia , Cookery
Michelin-Starred Strawberry Sorbet
2007-09-05 06:48:00 Learn how to make the very best strawberry sorbet you will ever taste exactly like they do at one of the world's top restaurants, Philippe Rochat in Switzerland. Read my interview of chef Rochat where he tells which strawberry to use for this sorbet. More About: Strawberry , Michelin
Tony Soprano's Own Neapolitan Ragù
2007-09-04 05:49:00 How my friend Pascuale came to eat my Maccheroni al ragù 'like in Napoli' and fix my media room so that I could watch the Soprano s. More About: Tony , Tony Soprano , Poli
Pasta for the Sopranos
2007-09-03 08:53:00 How I convinced Switzerland's top custom installer to come and fix my home cinema the next day with a promise of homemade maccheroni with real Neapolitan ragù. More About: Pasta , The Sopranos , Sopranos
Pigeon Pasta Pie
2007-08-28 12:36:00 Extraordinary 19th century Italian pie filled with maccheroni in a pigeon sauce. The height of Italian haute cuisine a century ago. More About: Pasta , Pigeon
Strawberry Risotto
2007-08-21 12:00:00 Serious risotto from the king of modern Italian cookbooks - Il Cucchiaio d'argento. It contains strawberries for a surprising but successful and now well established match. More About: Strawberry , Risotto
Baba Ganouj on Hot Embers
2007-08-17 05:07:00 Amazing Lebanese eggplant caviar roasted directly over hot embers and served with crispy lavash bread with toppings.
Deep-Fried Mars Bar
2007-08-15 10:10:00 At last a solution to social security deficits. More About: Mars , Deep , Fried
Sicilian Money Machine
2007-08-10 13:21:00 This baked eggplant pasta dish has been keeping client queuing at the door of Geneva's most successful popular Italian restaurant 15 years. Find out how you can cook this Sicilia n cash cow for yourself. More About: Money , Machine , Mach
One for the road at The Last Drop in Edinburgh
2007-08-09 11:29:00 Drinking whisky in the pub where men condemned to death had their last meal made me think about life, death and gluttony. More About: Edinburgh , Road , Drop , The Road , The Last
Cult Italian Pesto Soup
2007-07-26 12:50:00 This legendary Italian and French traditional vegetable soup is turned into an elixir of long life by mixing in fresh pesto. A cult summer delicacy ready in under an hour. More About: Cult , Soup , Pesto
Swiss Alpine Pasture Cheese Croûte
2007-07-25 08:48:00 How I bought cheese in a small cheese making chalet in the Swiss Alps 2 hours walk from the last road and how I turned it into a delicious Croûte au fromage. More About: Cheese , Alpine
Neapolitan Macaroni Eaters
2007-07-09 05:16:00 Mangiamaccheroni - Neapolitan macaroni-eating lads were once the symbol of Napoli's joie de vivre. Here are 20 examples of these icons from my personal collection. More About: Poli , Eater , Maca
Real Uzbek Plov
2007-06-25 05:02:00 Uzbekistan's national dish, plov, is a hearty cousin of Pakistani pulaos and Persian rices dishes. Watch me make it like Uzbek mamas do! More About: Real , Uzbek
Linguine con le vongole - Clams Pasta
2007-06-18 10:52:00 These gorgeous Neapolitan noodles in a clams-tomato sauce make a serious gourmet meal in less than 30 minutes. More About: Pasta , Guin , Linguine , Clam
Provence Croutons Like Alain Ducasse
2007-06-15 06:12:00 Extraordinary pre-starter offered in top French chef Alain Ducasse 's restaurant in Provence - delicious crispy toasted bread with eggplant caviar and anchovy sauce. A resounding success! See how Ducasse makes it and you can do it at home too. More About: Like , Rove , Oven
Pistachio Ice Cream From Scratch
2007-06-14 11:28:00 Starting with raw pistachios from Istanbul, I made delicious pistachio ice cream from scratch using directions from French pastry chef honcho Pierre Hermé. Nothing like industrial ice cream! More About: Ice Cream , Cream , Scratch
Persian Jeweled Rice
2007-06-11 08:50:00 Spectacular recipe fit for a king, this Persian rice is adorned with beautiful dried fruits and nuts that turn it into a jewel. Really memorable! More About: Rice
Quails in Wine Leaves Like the Romans
More articles from this author:2007-06-10 09:24:00 This recipes comes straight from Ancient Rome and has been cooked like this for 2000-odd years. Quails are stuffed with fresh figs, wrapped in wine leaves and grilled. Amazing. More About: Wine , Romans , Like , Leaves , Mans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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