Who knows how many times you have leafed through “La Cucina Italiana” postponing the preparation of some recipe for a question of tight deadlines. During the week it is often difficult to have the time necessary to prepare recipes that require more than an hour and you tend to rely on quick recipes, so as to make sure you serve lunches and dinners on time.

But when the weekend comes, we can abandon habits and taboos and give ourselves the pleasure of cooking something appetizing and different from the usual, whose preparation takes some time between procedures, rest and cooking. And this time, which we will spend between the kitchen, the terrace, a book and television, will also be an opportunity to relax a little. The pots and pans as well, although they need a little care when they are on the stove and in the oven, can be a source of true relaxation.

If you want to lengthen the time spent in the kitchen between perfumes, memories and culinary satisfactions, all you have to do is select the recipes for your "thoughtful" weekend menu. It starts with appetizers like the rabbit terrine, the anchovy cake, the prawn tartare and bisque jelly, the eclairs with green tomato jam and the thin stuffed focaccia to continue with first courses like i scampi and zucchini ravioli with bisque and pine nuts and the paccheri cake standing with ricotta. Among the main courses, fillets of grapefruit sole, baked turbot with cherries and daikon, bread millefeuille with cuttlefish and ginger potatoes, egg white omelette with Cantonese asparagus and pork loin with ginger rhubarb and chamomile.

To top it off, cherry strudel, donuts with raspberry sauce, crunchy puffs with almond cream and ricotta puddings. For those who want to cook a single dish then, recipes like this are perfect sandwich with frayed pork shoulder, tortilla with scamorza cheese and asparagus, pita with artichokes and goat ricotta and small tacos with avocado and buffalo mozzarella.

Have a nice weekend!

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