Recipes published in ‘Italy’

Cucumber Soup with Pistou

Recipe

13 May

Title: Cucumber Soup with Pistou
Categories: Vegetables, Soups
Yield: 6 servings

1 tb Olive oil
1 Leek (white part plus 1 inch
-of green) chopped
1 Stalk celery with leaves,
-chopped
1 lb Cucumbers, peeled, halved,
-seeded, and chopped
2 ts Lemon juice
4 c Chicken stock
Pistou:
2 Cloves garlic, finely minced
1/4 c Minced fresh basil
4 ts Finely chopped walnuts
2 ts Parmesan cheese
4 ts Olive oil
1/2 md Sized tomato, peeled,
-seeded, and chopped

To prepare the soup: In a medium-size saucepan, heat oil over low
heat. Add leeks and celery and cook until vegetables are soft, about
10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add cucumbers, lemon juice and
stock. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and
simmer for 20 minutes, or until cucumbers are tender. Cool slightly.
To prepare Pistou: With a mortar and pestle, mash together garlic,
basil and walnuts to a paste. (you can also use a bowl with a wooden
spoon). Work in a little cheese and oil and one-third of the tomato.
Keep adding cheese, oil and tomato. The mixture will not be a true
emulsion but a barely fluid paste.

Transfer cucumber mixture to a food processor or blender and puree, in
batches, until smooth. Ladle soup into serving bowl. Pass the
pistou. Allow 1 tablespoon of pistou per serving to be placed in the
center of the bowl, then swirl into soup.

Enjoy David….

**>>April<<** MMMMM

Filed under: Christmas, Italy

Rainbow Blossoms Vegetable Soup

Recipe

12 Jan

RAINBOW BLOSSOM’S VEGETABLE SOUP

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups Vegetables
Vegetarian

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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1 lg Onion, chopped
4 ea Celery ribs, chopped
2 tb Vegetable oil
1 sm Head broccoli
— cut into florets
1 sm Head cauliflower
— cut into florets
3 lg Potatoes, cubed
2 lg Carrots, finely chopped
1 md Zucchini, diced
1 md Yellow squash, diced
28 oz Can tomatoes juice, diced
1/2 c Frozen lima beans
1/2 c Frozen green beans
1/2 c Frozen corn
1/2 c Frozen peas
2 qt Water
1/4 c Spike seasoning*
1/2 ts Garlic flakes**
1 t Basil
1/4 ts Thyme
1 t Cumin
1 t Chili powder
1/4 ts Oregano
1 t Parsley flakes
1 tb Sweetener
3 tb Tamari sauce

*A blended seasoning mixture.
**My note: Blech! Use the real stuff!
In a large kettle, saute onion and celery in oil until onions are
translucent.
Add broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, carrots, zucchini, squash,
tomatoes and juice, lima beans, green beans, corn, peas and water.
(If you prefer a thinner soup, more water can be added.) Stir well.
Add Spike, garlic flakes, basil, thyme, cumin, chili powder, oregano,
parsley flakes, honey and tamari or soy sauce. Simmer 1 hour or until
vegetables are tender.
Yield: 8 to 10 servings.

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Filed under: Formatted, Italy, Seafood, Soups

Nasty Spider Cake

Recipe

20 Apr

Title: NASTY SPIDER CAKE
Categories: Cakes, Halloween
Yield: 1 Cake

1 Cake mix
1 pk Green jello prepared
Black frosting
8 Licorice sticks
8 Gumdrops

(once made as a tease for a woman who HATED spiders)

Take your average cake mix. Bake it up in 2 metal bowls–1 bigger
than the other. Once unmolded, cut the bigger one (the “body”) in
half, horizontally. CAREFULLY scoop out an adequate cavity in each
half. FILL with well-whipped set green Jello, and reattach the
halves. Frost black, arrange on serving platter. Use licorice stix as
legs. Use 2 BIG green gumdrops and 6 little ones as eyes. When the
cake is cut into, it spurts green goop, just like a real spider when
stepped on.

Why not add a red hourglass to the back and make it toxic? 😉

August 1994, Lars in Denmark

MMMMM

Filed under: Ethnic, Italy, Pasta, Sauce Gravy, Sauce Marinade, Sauces

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