Spinach and Ricotta Frittata - Gluten Free, Vegetarian, Low Fat

This great recipe is vegetarian, gluten-free, and low fat. It is a great main dish to just serve with a salad or some sweet potato fries! It is super easy to make, it's a tasty alternative if you're trying to cut down on meat.

It could also be your fancy appetizer for your next dinner party or romantic dinner (hint hint).

For the sweet potato fries recipe click here

For salad ideas visit the "Recipe" page of this blog, I have many suggestions!

Ingredients: 

4 eggs from free to roam hens
two big bundles of spinach (you may substitute for any other kind of leafy green)
some grated parmigiano cheese
freshly ground nutmeg
a little bit of salt
half of a small canister of MAGGIO ricotta, easily found at the grocery store. Let's face it, it's never going to be as good as in Napoli, but at least this one is not awful.
Some Extra Virgin Olive Oil to coat the pan

Utensils: 

non stick 9 inch/22cm pie pan
a whisk
a bowl

STEP BY STEP: 

1. If you haven't done so already, clean wash and cook the spinach in a large pot with some water at the bottom. Set the oven to 400F/200C
2. Meanwhile whisk the eggs, the ricotta, salt, nutmeg, parmigiano cheese.
3. Squeeze all the water out of the cooked spinach and whisk away with the rest
4. Coat the pie pan in olive oil (watch the video above for this step)
5. Pour the ricotta/spinach mixture in the pie pan.
6. Bake for 20/30 minutes.

I love it, it's one of my latest favorite fast lunch/dinner solutions, and I say fast because I usually prepare my cooked greens ahead of time. You can also put it in the oven while the oven is warming up and that will cut 10 minutes down from cooking time.

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Enjoy!!

Easy, fast, cheap Italian Appetizer Recipe

Finally a new video! It's so old I was still wearing winter clothes! ahhahahaha!
Well, this recipe is perfect for the warmer weather, no stove needed.

Bresaola, Rucola, Parmigiano... oh my! Try this exact thing on top of a pizza, it will change your world.

Hope you enjoy it!
Valentina
RealItalianKitchen

Home Made Dog Food

My dog is a 13 year old shitzu (how do you spell that?!?). We adopted him a couple of months ago.
He's been eating Pedigree his entire life, his previous owners gave me some cans that they had left.

One evening I gave my dog some of our chicken leftovers and since then he doesn't even get close to his can of Pedigree...

So I researched what they put in it and I found out that it is awful and harmful, especially for an old dog like mine.

My solution? Home made dog food. As long as it's balanced, anyone can cook it. It doesn't have to be anything special, as long as it has meat, vegetables and rice in it.

A small dog will eat one cup of food per day. This recipe is for a week/10 days supply:


Budget: $7

1pound ground pork or ground chicken or ground turkey (beef alone is a little heavy on the digestive system for an old pup)

1 box of frozen chopped up vegetables without sauce (may I suggest no broccoli... they stink after a few days...)

3 cups of rice

Put the meat with a table spoon of vegetable oil in a big pot and break it with a spoon while it cooks on medium heat.
Add the rice, 3 cups of water, the veggies. Let everything cook for about 15/20 minutes.

I store half of it in the fridge and the other half in the freezer.

Let's love our animals the best we can.

Valentina
http://www.youtube.com/realitaliankitchen