Recent content by Meryl

My life - Billy Joel

Fresh pasta (trofie) - store bought - with a sauce using canned cherry tomatoes,followed by grilled sausages and green salad.

That's just what's happened here. Like I just said to @blissful , most of these boars are not our native ones, that's why we are facing this invasion. We wouldn't mind if they remained in their own habitats, but there are just so many of them, not enough food for them there, so they have to dig...

We don't want to destroy them all, we want to control the overwhelming production rate and would like them to stay in their natural wildlife habitats. There are too many of them because they are not only our native ones, many years ago they were imported from Eastern countries for hunting, but...

Yes, in all regions the hunting season for wild boars starts around October until January. A law has been approved that farmers who are forced to watch their cultivated lands being destroyed (losing their yearly profits) have the right to shoot them too, to protect their territories and...

How about this memorable facial expression of Robert de Niro in the "Meet the parents" saga?

In only one region, up in the North, a new law last year proclaimed that hunters would be paid to shoot them but that's just a little corner of the country. Also, there are many demonstrators and political parties against this and will do all they can to quickly abolish that law. However, that...

Care for a wild boar? 😁 Just a few yards from my yard, they shouldn't have been there at that time of the morning, in the sun. They usually only come out at sunset! I agree, I'm ok with wildlife but if only they'd stop invading us! They have become real pests all over the country, gigantic...

Looks and sounds like a top quality dish @pepperhead212. Thanks for the recipe, you've given me a new interesting idea on how to make tasty recipes using grains and legumes, which in my opinion is not as easy as cooking pasta dishes. Talking about pasta, I cooked fusilli with freshly shelled...

Stand by me - Ben E. King

"Joker" was a particularly "etching" film. Great interpretation by Joaquin Phoenix. After seeing the film I thought WOW, what a brilliant actor, and I can still hear that weird, scary laughter!!

Since it's Mother's day today, my parents came round for lunch. I cooked tagliatelle "al ragù" (bolonaise), then steak and salad as a second course, Barbera Red wine, and finished with delicious pastries from the best bakery in town.

Happy Mother's day.

Happy belated birthday @taxlady.

Pan-fried cod fillets (in EVOO) , with steamed potatoes and string beans. I added a few pieces of garlic and EVOO to the veggies, let them rest for a while and then removed the garlic. We're not keen on munching garlic, just the flavour will do. I always use garlic this way to flavour food...