The sun has finally come to Reading; I have butterflies in my stomach, and only devil knows what in my head. And we have solution to the problem in the section “Not a Day without a New Recipe”. My hungry eyes often catch small and mouth-watering fish in the stores. They are neatly folded by caring and, more often than not, Italian hands in small glass jars. I look at them and I cannot for the life of me decide what to do with them. They are terribly salty, and nothing comes to mind but adding them to salad dressing or putting them on pizza for piquancy. In Sophia’s Loren “Recipes & Memories”, I found a recipe for pasta with anchovies. Now there are more options 🙂 Soon we will have the first tomatoes of the season: a good reason to cook pasta with a prominent flavour of the sea…
I will leave here the words of Sophia Loren from this book that are inspirational for culinary exploits for you and for myself: “Learn the rules of the kitchen well, by doing. For the true cook is born when having assimilated the rules, he or she begins to improvise, to move among the ingredients with a sense of freedom and imagination. Don’t be a slave to recipes, to weights and measures, but let your convictions, and above all, love, guide you. In other words, you must be convinced that cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets – piccolo segreti – that are simmering on the burners.”
Other recipes from Sophia Loren’s book:
