It also (kind of) rhymes! Honestly, these are so so easy to make (max 30 min prep time) but delicious.
The ingredients are:
- couscous
- zucchini
- cherry tomatoes
- olive oil
- pinch of salt
- parmisan cheese (not in the pic, I forgot :/)
For the couscous:
for how many grams of couscous you want to make, you need the same mls of water plus a tablespoon or two more. Usually I cook couscous in a pan with water (like rice) but I was feeling especially lazy today so I just poured it in a bowl, poured a tablespoon of oil and sprinkled some salt and mixed it up. Then I set some water up to boil in a tea boiler, poured it in the bowl until it covered the couscous and covered the bowl with a plate to keep it warm, letting the couscous absorb the water, for 2-3 mins.
Use this time to cut up your zucchinis and remove the pulp inside with a spoon (you can use it for soups, sauces, whatever).
The couscous will be ready in the meantime: cheating brought to the same result = cooked couscous. Now that I know this, I will never get a pan out again! (washing up pans is the worst.)
Then cut up some cherry tomatoes and mix them up, if the couscous is a little dry feel free to add some oil or salt if you need it.
Messy part: stuffing.
Then sprinkle some parmisan over it to form that crunchy layer on top.
Close up is needed:
Then pop into the oven at 190 degrees for 30 mins (until the zucchinis are cooked, because the couscous already is).
Voilà !
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I get in this weird mood sometimes where I "just have to do" something. This morning, I just had to bake. Before I opened the fridge I mentally prayed I had all of the ingredients to bake chocolate chip cookies. Answer: no eggs, no butter, no dates (I kinda use them to substitute butter/sugar, squishing them so they form a sticky paste). Also, my brown sugar packet was practically empty. I decided to bake cookies anyways, mentally preparing for a disastrous outcome but amazingly (and I still can't believe it) they turned out all right first time! (tbh they are really really gooood). Here's what I used:
Ingredients (15-20 cookies):
- 1 1/2 cup of flour (I used chickpea flour, but all flours work fine)
- 1/4 cup of white sugar
- 1/4 cup of brown sugar
- 1 banana
- 100 g of chocolate
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp honey
First of all mix up the dry ingredients (white sugar, brown sugar, flour):
Then get your banana and your chocolate:
And cut/mash them up!
Add to the bowl and mix (with a fork, then a spoon, then with your fingers to get it as dough-like as possible):
Roll the dough in balls:
And squash them into a cookie shape:
Pop in the oven at 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes:
Until they're light brown and crispy:
(my measuring cup is so appropriate):
DONE :)
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After months and months of absence from the blog (exams and laziness being the major causes)... here's Croatia. Me and my friends rented a house for a week near Porec, which is 40 km from Trieste. It was a looong car trip from Milan, but I got to experience the best dawn ever on the way to Croatia (I have a thing for skies):
Finally crossed the border:
And first glimpse of Porec in the background:
Our house was in the countryside outside the city:
I didn't take lots of pictures, not day by day at least, but I have quite a few from the day we went to Rovigno (or Rovinj in Croatian), which is one of the prettiest little cities in Istria (the region we were visiting).
We decided to go for aperitivo in a really fancy place called Valentino (imagine a group of 20 year-olds with flip flops and plastic mirror-lenses sunglasses), but thankfully in the end they let us in and oh. my. god. the view!
And the sunset (self-explanatory really):
The food we had for dinner was amazing as well, I got a simple salad with Istrian prosciutto and oranges and lemons...yum.
Croatia: 10/10!
Bonus sunset picture:
And bonus seafood spaghetti picture: (too good not to be posted!) ;)
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