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Enrica Monzani - asmallkitchenigenoa

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I’m Enrica, the face and soul behind A Small Kitchen in Genoa.

My mother and my grandmother, two great cooks, put skillets and spoons in my hands since I was tall enough to get to the cookers and taught me to love through cooking.

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🇬🇧 Hello there! This is me, Enrica, the lady behind A Small Kitchen in Genoa. ⁣
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For those who don’t know me, I’m a home cook and a compulsive collector of traditional recipes from my region, Liguria. I tell the stories of our local dishes through words and images and I teach people how to cook them.⁣
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I believe local traditions are like roots that ground us. That’s why I am so passionate about sharing our regional food and getting people to discover all the little groceries and delis that have fed generations of Genoese. In doing so, I hope I can dust off them the debris of time and even more so, the aridity of globalisation. ⁣
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I believe in authentic, seasonal foods, grown with love and in respect of the environment. I actively research and study local produce and Slow Food Presidia and tell the stories of the brave people behind them.⁣
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Today, in my home kitchen, I organise private kitchen courses tailored for an international audience. I love to share my passion for our history and our food with people who are enthusiastic, curious and interested. The warmth of the people and the cultural exchange that takes place during my lessons is a priceless gift I receive every time.⁣
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I also run food tours of Genoa for small groups (link) where we discover the local food scene exploring and tasting the day away.
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Do you like my project? Then why don’t you sign up to my Newsletter! click the link in my bio 👉🏻 @asmallkitcheningenoa ! You will receive new recipes and tasty news from the sunny Italian Riviera pipping hot straight from my oven to your inbox! ⁣
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🇮🇹 Italiano nel primo commento! ( tutto non ci stava 😅) #asmallkitcheningenoa #myliguriantable #genoacookingclasses #genoacookingclass #italiancookingclass #italianriviera #browsingitaly #eattheworld #foodreporter #foodandtravel #foodtraveler #liguria #lamialiguria #italyturism #liguriafood #ricetteliguri #cucinaitaliana #italiantradition #italiantravel #ig_liguria #genovamorethanthis

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🇬🇧 What’s better than a hot fruit salad to warm your winter evenings?⁣
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This is my granny’s one made up with apples, pears, some dried fruits, almonds and a splash of rose syrup to season. 🌹⁣
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Recipe is now on the blog! Direct link in my bio here 👉🏻 @asmallkitcheningenoa .⁣
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🇮🇹 Cosa c’è di meglio di una macedonia di frutta cotta per riscaldarsi e coccolarsi davanti alla televisione in inverno? ⁣
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Questa è la ricetta della nonna con mele, pere, frutta disidratata, mandorle e qualche goccia di sciroppo di rose per condire! 🌹⁣
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🇬🇧 New entries in the small kitchen: a couple of copper pans to hang on the wall straight from our old family house in Cervo Ligure. They were dirty, dark, not tinned, hidden on the highest shelves of the cellar. A proper make over makes them now shining and ready for cooking! ⁣
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🇮🇹 New entry nella nostra Small kitchen: un paio di padelle di rame da appendere al muro che arrivano direttamente dalla nostra casa di Cervo. Sporche, annerite, no n più stagnate erano nascoste su uno scaffale della cantina. Con un restauro ad arte sono tornate splendenti e pronte a cucinare! ⁣
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🇬🇧 Here it is, my shortbread dough. Smooth, warm, a heavy ball in my hands. ⁣
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Every time I knead and mix ingredients with my hands I feel well, satisfied, somehow accomplished, useful. I’ve let my hands work, move and create. It is everything is falling into place for a moment.⁣
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And you, how do you feel after kneading?⁣
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🇮🇹 Ti presento la mia pasta frolla. Liscia, tiepida, una palla pesante dentro le mie mani.⁣
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Tutte le volte che impasto mi sento bene, soddisfatta, ripagata, utile. E’ come se per un attimo tutto andasse al posto giusto.⁣
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E tu, come ti senti dopo aver impastato?⁣
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My today Seville orange marmalade. It’s taste, the jelly velvety consistency, the translucent bright orange color! I’m so happy of it!! Yesterday I finished the book “Christmas chronicles “ and this winter marmalade is a tribute to the author, @nigelslater. THE food writer. I loved every single word of his book, I wish I were his best friend for watching him moving in the kitchen, choosing the ingredients, tasting his food before pouring it in the plates with love and care and chatting with him on farm markets, flowers, candles, furoshiki. For the time being I will just go on reading all his other cookbooks but I keep on dreaming 😁.
And this marmalade is also a contribute to @julskitchen #citrusfeast!
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One of my 2020 good intentions is to reduce the consumption of meat, once a week ideally, and substitute it with much more greens, whole-wheat carbs and healthier proteins such as pulses and fish. I’m not very good at cooking fish, though, notwithstanding I leave on the seaside. I’m quite good with anchovies, blue fish, stock fish, octopus, but cooking big whole fishes have always been intimidating. This until I discovered the cooking thermometer, a game changer! I don’t need to worry anymore about oven temperatures and cooking time, when meat close to the center gets around 70 degree Celsius( we like it slightly well done rather than pink) it’s done! And all the time it’s perfect, really, notwithstanding me 😅. So let’s cook more luxurious fishes this year! ...from time to time 😊. Yesterday I cooked these sea breams with lemons layered on a bed of thinly sliced potatoes dusted with breadcrumbs and chopped parsley. The original recipe, with pistachios and fennel though, is of @julskitchen , who is a mine of inspiring week nights dinners! [ita] Buoni propositi 2020: mangiare meno carne rossa, idealmente una volta alla settimana, e sostituirla con proteine vegetali e pesce (@prof_valterlongo docet) Il pesce non è la mia specialità. Me la cavo abbastanza con acciughe, sgombri, pesce sfilettato, polpo, stoccafisso, ma i pesci grandi mi hanno fatto sempre paura perché non sono capace a capire quanto tempo ci vuole per cuocerli. Poi nella mia vita è arriva il termometro da cucina con la sonda. Una svolta epocale! Adesso non mi preoccupo più di temperatura del forno o dei tempi di cottura, quando la carne arriva a 70 ‘C alla lisca ( ci piace più ben cotta che rosa) è pronto. Ed esce dal forno sempre perfetto nonostante me 😅. ieri ho cucinato queste orate al limone con la ricetta di Giulia @julskitchen , una miniera di ispirazioni!
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[Eng] My grandma used to prepare this apple cake when I was a child.
It looks more a pancake then a sponge cake, more a sponge cake then a clafoutis. It’s an old recipe, a plain, simple, flat, honest apple cake. Just some pine nuts spread on top to make it more rich. The cake tin is the traditional one, made in copper, very wide and flat traditional used for baking pies in the wood ovens.

The special local ingredient is the cheese, prescinseua, a fresh cheese produced only in the back country of Genoa. It gives some sourness to the dough, perfectly balanced though by the sugar inside and on top the cake.
I will make some test to see if I can get the same flavor substituting prescinseua with ricotta cheese and yogurt, so all the non Genoese can do it at home 😊 and then will share! 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 [ita] Mia nonna preparava spesso in inverno questa torta di mele, una vecchia ricetta genovese. Più simile a un clafoutis che ad una torta vera e propria, molto bassa perché cotta nel classico testo di rame utilizzato per torte salate, focaccia al formaggio, farinata e castagnaccio.
L’ingrediente locale: la #prescinsuea , il formaggio fresco che si produce solo nell’entroterra genovese, che dona una leggera nota acidula alla torta, molto ben bilanciata dalla dolcezza delle mele e dallo zucchero dentro d sopra l’impasto.

Grazie @chicckitchen per avermi fatto fare un tuffo nel passato , la ricetta sul Vostro nuovo bellissimo libro “A tavola con Gioia” ricorda moltissimo quella di casa nostra!
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The first morning of this 2020, after a memorable sleep in the most comfortable bed of my life, I woke up with this view, filling my eyes and soul of pristine beauty. With this blessed beginning who knows what this year will deserve to me! If I can choose I would ask for time: tons of happy moments with my kids, time to slow down, to meditate, time to read a good book and to write for me and for the blog, time to observe the world outside and inside. I would ask for some more wisdom to appreciate who I am and all what I already have. Happy new year to all of you, may you too get this year what you are longing for!
#newyearsresolution #2020goals #thehappynow #slowliving #the_sugar_jar #florencegram #firenzemia #theartofslowliving #pursuebeauty #frommywindow #windows_to_the_world

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In these days between Christmas feast and New Year feast I fell the urgency of eating greens and detoxing. So I prepare my granny’s witch soup 🧙🏻‍♀️, made of all greens vegetables including if you have some wild herbs such as nettles and dandelions (this is the witch side of the recipe 😊). I use to add some turmenic powder to even increase its anti-oxidant power!
Here the recipe:

Ingredients

200 g of chards
2 coasts of celery
2 potatoes
1 onion
1 leek
¼ of cabbage
¼ of Roman cabbage
1 fennel
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
1 handful of coarse salt
Instructions
Clean all the vegetables. Cut them into thin strips, wheels or cubes.
In a large pot pour a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, then add the vegetables. Add cold water to cover vegetables and a handful of rock salt.
Cook over a low heat for 30 minutes starting from the boil.
Serve hot, with a round of extra virgin olive oil, a sprinkling of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and a slice of toasted bread.
I use to add some turmenic powder to even increase its anti-oxidant power!
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A Christmas summary.
#mychristmas #littlemomentsofhappiness #familyfirst #livetheauthentic #slowlivingforlife #the_sugar_jar #happymommy #tartandress #verilymoments #thatlight #christmasmood

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