Pasta finocchi e radicchio - Fennel and Radicchio Pasta

I like dressing my pasta with any seasonal vegetables available in the market; it's a light and satisfying dish everyone enjoys. Simple food made with good ingredients.

Insalata d’inverno con salmone – Winter Salad with Salmon

Fennel and fish is one of the happiest winter marriages. 

Here I combine the fresh and crunchy fennel with the delicate salmon in a festive salad. Spinach leaves give colour, whereas the pomegranate enhances both the crunchiness and the sweetness of the main ingredients.
Tip: the Dijon mustard is the essential binding for the vinaigrette. Do not miss it out. Details are so important in simple dishes.

Petti di pollo alla senape con verdure d’inverno - Chicken Breasts with Winter Vegetables

Seasonal dishes are my daily treat and since I can find fennels in London, my life has changed in better. Fennel has a strong personality which would give a twist to any dish. Here I prepare a winter salad adding fennel to carrot and onion and topping it with chicken breasts dressed with mustard. 

Zuppa di pesce a modo mio – My Fish Soup

On Saturdays, I buy my fish from a stall in the farmers' market, where I enjoy going early in the morning in order to get the best choice. Yesterday the fish looked wonderful so I decided to make a fish soup, a simple and quick one with a mixed of firm-flesh fishes plus few prawns. I picked up a wild sea bream and two mullets the fishmonger cleaned for me and I kept the bones and the heads for the stock. 

Vellutata finocchi e scalogni - Fennel and Shallot Veloute'

This morning, I spotted frost covered windscreens on the cars parked in the street. Winter has arrived, at last. I am recovering from a flu and I immediately decided not to go out for my shopping. I  work from home on Mondays and today I can be creative, inventing a soup with what's left in the pantry. Not much, but enough to make a comforting velouté.