La Cucina Povera – a term from Italy for the peasant’s kitchen. The kitchen of the poor. The Poverty Kitchen.

The Poverty Kitchen

Recipes

A page for recipes found in the Blog posts.

Ratatouille (you’ve seen the movie, you know the name)
Attribution: Julia Child, Art of French Cooking Vol. 1 page 503-504

1/2 pound eggplant, sliced into 3/8ths inch sticks
1/2 pound of zucchini, similarly sliced
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups of sliced yellow onion
1 cup green bell pepper*
2 cloves of garlic smashed and chopped
1 pound of firm ripe red tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped.
Salt & Pepper to taste
3 Tablespoons of minced parsley
* see blog post

Welcome to The Poverty Kitchen,

La Cucina Povera – a term from Italy for the peasant’s kitchen.
The kitchen of the poor.
The Poverty Kitchen.
The concept of the poverty kitchen can be found globally and is really about making great food with simple high quality, and seasonally available ingredients.