How the blog has been neglected! 🙁

Busy times though, as we are preparing to move to Casa Banks in Torcigliano, there is barely time to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea, read a book or cook something really nice and write about it. Last weekend was another one when we dragged two Ikea bags to the car in the morning, filled with stuff so that there was less for the traslochi, then a few hours of work, painting, tidying up the garden, then, as a reward to ourselves, a nice meal at Grumpy’s , as zero energy was left to cook. Grumpy always gives us a discount now and makes sure we have noticed, how he gave us a discount! 🙂

This morning I was awake at 5 am flicking through internet and found this nice little recipe from GialloZafferano. A few hours later in Esselunga I was buying some fresh green peas and made it for us this evening, while thunderstorm was raging outside. Nice little dish, all the Bankses enjoyed it.

First I crisped up some guanciale, which even Dustin likes, but raw, then drained the meat and used the fat to fry up a shallot, half a courgette and a small bowl of peas. Then a bit of chicken stock and after a few minutes the whole thing was ready to puree. Made a risotto usual way, with chicken stock and Santa Cristina, kept on adding the green puree and then a good handful of fresh peas towards the end. Right before serving crispy guanciale went on top and it was ready to be enjoyed. With the remaining Santa Cristina, ovviamente! 🙂