Salmon and Kale salad!

yum yum yum!!!!
This is an amazing way to get lots of nutrition and have it taste good!

Feel free to switch things out if you would like!

Ingredients:
Kale
Salmon
strawberry*
fresh fennel
lemon juice
honey
white wine vinegar
olive oil
salt
pepper
parsley
optional - onion

*sounds like it won't taste good, but it does! TRUST ME!!

Put fresh Salmon on a cookie sheet (skin down) - ( I like to put fish on tin foil for easier cleaning )
Pour a little olive oil over fish, sprinkle parsley, lemon, salt, pepper
Add small slices of onion
Slice fennel and place on pan with salmon - to the side, not on top of the fillet
Good on 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until Salmon is fully cooked, please do not over cook fresh fish, that ruins it! :)

While fish is cooking, prepare rest of salad.
Cut up some kale and fresh strawberries, place in bowl
add a tablespoon of honey
sprinkle salt, pepper, parsley
Wait until you serve salad - then pour a little white wine vinegar and olive oil over your amazing Salmon, Strawberry, Kale Salad!!!

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Take it one step further!!
lose the strawberries - they will not taste good in a pasta!
do everything else the same
throw over a pasta!!!
add tomato slices (and optional: sun dried tomatoes)
throw in a pan and heat everything together with some olive oil

yumyumyumyum!!!

My Homemade Pasta!

It is so easy to make pasta!!

I cheat with a pasta maker from Italy.
You can roll it out and try to use your hands - bad looking food still tastes good!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour (any kind you would prefer!)
• 1 egg
• splash of water
• <no salt!!!> salt ruins machines - just don't use it!
• Multiply ingredients for more dough!

Tools:
mixer
pasta maker (can roll out dough if you dare!)

Start:

1. In a large bowl mix in one egg for every cup of flour (one cup serves 1 person).
2. Add a small amount of water until dough is less firm and able to stretch.
3. Take a small handful of the dough, flatten the dough with machine or roller until pretty thin (thickness is different for each type of noodle - do not rip dough!)
4. Hang or lay on fresh surface for up to only 15 minutes or else dough will get hard.
5. fFatten rest of dough.
6. Immediately cut the dough and create noodles:
7. Run sheet of dough through machine at whatever setting (thickness of noodle) you prefer.
8. Hang up or lay noodles flat. Do not stack noodles, they will stick together!
9. No need to wait: place in boiling water until noodles float (30 seconds - 1 minute) - remove immediately.
10. Can place uncooked fresh pasta in fridge for a couple days in a sealed container to hold in freshness.

Add whatever sauce you like to make the pasta taste delish! Try my home made marinara sauce: http://mycookingisamazing.blogspot.com/2016/11/marinara-sauce.html

My Italian friend - Luca Petricca 

Just two small correction... 

1.For "Tagliatelle or Fettuccine" (noodles) you should not use water at all...just flour and eggs...
2. try to use "all-purpose flour" and avoid "pastry flour" (which is mainly used for cakes).

You can also p

repare a similar type of Pasta by using only FLOUR and warm WATER (same procedure that you described but no eggs)...it's very popular in south Italy and has many different names (Maltagliati, tagliolini, Stringozzi etc....)

So... Buon Appetito .. :)

Chicken and Artichoke Pasta

I just made this amazing pasta dish!

 ingredients: for 2 persons

• 1/2 pound of chicken breast
• 2 1/2 artichoke hearts
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 steak tomato
• olive oil for cooking and sauce
• 4 oz of chicken broth
• 4 oz of cooking white wine
• 3 pinches of flour to condense sauce
• 1 table spoon of capers
• lemon for squeezing
• 4-5 gloves on garlic
• a couple pieces of onion
• salt
• pepper
• parsley
• parmesan cheese (optional)
• pasta (or make it: http://mycookingisamazing.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-homemade-pasta.html)

Now you are going to cook:
Boil water for the artichoke. Cut artichoke in quarters, chop off top of leaves and most of the stem and scoop out the hairs. Boil artichoke (covered) for 10-12 minutes. Then place quartered artichokes on BBQ for 5 minutes each side.

While artichoke is cooking, boil water for pasta ( I used bow tie pasta for this dish! :) ). Place pasta in boiling water until cooked. (OR MAKE YOU OWN: http://mycookingisamazing.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-homemade-pasta.html)

Saute red bell peppers, while they are cooking, add chicken and the rest below:
Cut up chicken breast into 1 inch pieces, place in frying pan with a generous amount of olive oil on medium head. Add the small amount of onion for taste. Add garlic, a pinch of salt, pepper, lemon juice, and parsley to taste. Saute for a couple minutes.

Add chicken broth, a little drizzle of olive oil, and cooking white wine to chicken, simmer for a couple minutes. Add in chopped fresh tomatoes, capers, and a pinch of flour - simmer for another 3-4 minutes.

Cut off the artichoke hearts from the leaves (you can eat these too), chop up hearts and add to a bowl. Throw in the rest of the chicken, sauce, etc into a large bowl and mix - serve immediately and enjoy!