Today one of the most amazing but maybe underrated beef cuts: the flank steak. The flank steak is a cut from the belly, it’s a cut with a lot of muscular fibers and if you want to cook it as a steak you have to cook it fast and at high heat, otherwise it will…
Author: polentaebaccala
I'm Italian, together with my wife we are photographers, and as for many other Italians food is also a main passion :)
In my blog you will find what I usually eat, recipes of the italian tradition, but not only :)
Cappellacci Ferraresi with Duck Ragù
There are still many pumpkins in the markets, so since I like them I’ll keep cooking them 🙂 I wanted to do something different than the usual cream soups or gnocchi, and a good idea is to make some filled pasta, of course 🙂 In Italy the most famous pasta filled with pumpkin are probably…
Harcsapaprikás – Hungarian Wels Catfish Stew – Stufato di Pesce Siluro
Here it is my first post about Hungarian recipes 🙂 and for sure others will follow. Of course, to make this recipe I needed the help of my wife, of her grandmother and her grandmother’s old cookbooks 🙂 As you know I like to make the things as better as possible, so for this traditional…
Pennoni with Jerusalem Artichokes Cream and Crunchy Pancetta
Do you like the Jerusalem artichoke, also known as topinambour? I do like it 🙂 Honestly, I have to say that until I lived in Italy I never ate this interesting root vegetable, but although I already heard about it and I also saw it in the italian vegetable stores, I discovered its taste only here in…
Fennel Creamy Soup, with Pearled Farro
Here it comes one of my favorite recipe for this season’s dinners 🙂 I like the fennel bulb, also raw in salads (for example it matches very well with orange), but probably I like it better in soups, it gives a very particular taste, half way between sweet and not. And paired together with a…
“Pasta e Fasule” (Pasta and Beans, Neapolitan style)
In Italy there are a lot of “pasta e fagioli” variations (“fasule” means fagioli, beans, in neapolitan dialect), most of them are real soups, but the one made in Naples area is different, it’s much more thicker and differently than for all the others the pasta is boiled inside the beans soup and not in…
French Onion Soup – Soupe à l’Oignon Lyonnaise (or Gratinée Lyonnaise)
I love soups, and onion soups are between my favorites. But between all the onion soups, probably the most famous is the french onion soup. I had the chance to try it a couple of times in France, and now that I casually found in a local supermarket a Gruyere AOP and even the Comté…
“Autumn Glass” :)
This is a simple and fast idea I had today, while thinking what to do with the last 2 persimmons remaining in the house 🙂 I used ingredients I had at home, and I have to say that though improvable, it was really good 🙂 And since the persimmon is one of the most typical fruits…
Spezzatino di Manzo (Beef Stew with Potatoes and Peas)
This is a recipe that at home my mom uses to make quite often, it’s not difficult and it’s also quite cheap since we are not using the “best” cuts of the beef 🙂 It’s a classic recipe through all Italy I think, and it can be a simple but tasty dish for your Sunday…
Linguine with Pike
As I already wrote previously, the Northern Pike is a very good fish, but if usually most of the recipes prepare it as a second course/main course, I have to say that it’s possible to prepare some great pasta recipes too, as I’m going to show you now 🙂 And I have to say that…
Pumpkin Gnocchi
Pumpkin gnocchi are apparently a simple recipe, but there are some details to take care to obtain a perfect soft gnocchi with a full pumpkin taste. Many recipes suggest to use also potatoes, but if in one hand it makes the work a bit easier, on the other hand it makes the pumpkin gnocchi heavier…
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
This is a very easy recipe, really for everyday use 🙂 The ingredients are simple, easy to find, and the procedure it’s not difficult at all. It’s a typical recipe from Campania region, and it’s very common also in Lazio region, but through all Italy this recipe is famous. There are some differences between the…
Polenta & Baccalá 