Baked eggs, asparagus salad

Braised lettuce, with shallots, mushrooms and peas

Gold cippolini onions, shoulder bacon, sherry vinaigrette

Broccoli rabe, with chickpeas and heirloom beans

One-egg omelette with ramps

Butter-braised celery and Japanese turnips

Carrot and cippolini onion confit

Pearl barley “biryani”

Asparagus, with pistachios, coconut and Indian spices

Insalata di funghi (mushroom salad)

“Potatoes and turnips”

One-egg Parisian omelette with asparagus and caviar

Spring greens, shoulder bacon

Spaghetti con spinaci e ricotta (Spaghetti with spinach and ricotta cheese)

Asparagus, poached egg, pecorino Crotonese cheese

Chinese cabbage and carrot, Indian-style

Pepper-cheese bread

Hard-cooked farm egg, shoulder bacon, Red Russian kale and morel mushrooms

Poached shrimp with olive oil and lemon juice, slow-cooked broccoli rabe with garlic and peperoncini, homemade bread

Strawberries, with orange juice and vanilla sugar

Recipes for most of the pictures above can be viewed here.

A note for my regular readers and followers: this post is tagged “vegan”, “vegetarian” and “gluten-free” because even though you see some pictures that contain animal protein, there are other dishes that fit those criteria such as for example, the asparagus with coconut, pistachio and Indian spices (vegan/gluten-free) and the spaghetti with spinach and ricotta (vegetarian). I myself am a “flexitarian”, that is, someone who is an omnivore but who consumes less meat than he used to.

Regular posting will re-commence tomorrow evening. Have a wonderful weekend.