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@Sunday cook - Thank You! WIll check it out this weekend :)

Homemade buckwheat fileld pasta! Make adough with 3/5 AP flour and 2/5 buckwheat flour, salt, eggs and water (for a total of 250 gr of flours I used 2 eggs and about 172 cup of water).
Let rest, roll out, fill with a mix of equal proportions of finely diced bresaola, mashed potato, ricotta, parmiggiano and whipped cream (unsweetened). Season with pepper and nutmeg, go easy on the salt as bresaola is quite salty. Serve with melted butter and some more parmiggiano. It's delicious!

Though I didn't make any of the recipes I was going to (Soft Pretzels were among them....), I had people over for lunch/dinner every weekend in February, so I tried several new dishes:

- The Big Sure Bakery Citrus Tart - the most amazing piece of cake I've ever had, taste- and look-wise (though not so good to take pictures of ... ), the leftover pastry is great for making thumb-print cookies filled with leftover citrus jam, too;
- Risotto with beer, fennel sausage and stracchino (italian creamy tangy soft cheese) - comfort winter food at it's best;
- homemade tagliatelle-pasta made with chestnut flour
- walnut sauce for wholewheat pasta from 101 Cookbooks - a sure keeper!
- Crespelle crepes filled with mushrooms and gorgonzola bechamel, topped with more bechamel and some pistacchios and broiled until golden - OMG!

This month, I want to make homemade cocoa pasta to eat with gorgonzola sauce...

After reading the manifesto in the tones of "We make manly cupcakes for manly man" I'd like to know whether the ones making thesse cupcakes are actually the men themselves as claimed by the ad. Nice ideas for homemade cupcakes though!

According to the topic of the post, I think men are less likely to eat grains, pulses, ecc, except it's in the chilli. I have doubts about milky desserts, too... Though my BF can devour several servings of freshly made warm vanilla pudding ... Go figure

Until 2 weeks ago, if there were like 2-3 forkfulls left on the plate and it still looked good enough to eat the next day, I just collected it for lunch (adding sth else for bulk), otherwise it went to the compost bin. Now we have a cute little piggie that eats virtually everything up to coffe grounds and tea bags (which I don't feed her, of course, or she'd get hyper-active), so food-waste problem is solved.