I like cooking and I like Jamie Oliver

Yesterday I was zapping from a tv channel to another when I found and watched a very interesting show with the talented English chef Jamie Oliver, who was travelling through Italy on his own. He stopped in a monastery in Farfa, Lazio and stayed a few days with the monks, cooking for them and tutoring them on how to cook fresh ingredients and prepare delicious healthy meals.


He cooked many things: a risotto with zucchini flowers, a soup with lentils, some grilled meat, but what I like the most about Jamie Oliver is not the dish he makes, but the fact that he is so passionate about what he does, you can feel that cooking is such a fondamental part of his life and he is also contagious in this passion, 'cause he is always smiley and happy to cook for others and to explain what he is preparing.
I really love that!


I think everyone can learn from him not only the simple recipes but his great attitude to work, so... thanks very much Maestro.

Spaghetti with dried tuna roe, the famous "Bottarga di tonno"

Do you know what the famous "Bottarga" is? And how do you cook it with pasta? "Bottarga di tonno" is basically the roe of the tuna, first dried and then grated. Here in Sicily having pasta with the tuna roe is a real deliciousness and is a very quick dish to prepare as well!

You will need: spaghetti - oil of olive - garlic - fresh parsley - bottarga di tonno (tuna roe) - red hot pepper.

Cook the spaghetti in plenty of boiling water, lightly salted, following the packet instructions, until "al dente". In the meantime in a sauce pan do the "soffritto" which means: put some extra virgin oil of olive and a clove of garlic until it becomes kind of golden brown colour. Chop the parsley and mix it in the oil. Add some boiling water from the spagnetti pan and finally a small piece of hot pepper.

When the spaghetti are ready drain them and mix them with the sauce made of oil and parsley. Then serve them sprinkled with abundant bottarga on top, just like in the picture.

It is a lovely pasta and very easy to cook. Enjoy!