Here it is one of the most famous and iconic recipes of Italy 🙂 I could eat it 1000 times, and I could never get bored of it! So simple, and so perfect, few ingredients matching perfectly to each others, et voilà: a little masterpiece 🙂 The name “Pasta all’Amatriciana” comes from the place of origin, the…
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 :)
Creamy Pumpkin Soup
We are in October, the autumn has already begun, and with the first cool weather coming for me begins the season of the soups 🙂 I really like soups, especially in autumn/winter I use to prepare them quite often, usually for dinner, and the butternut squash/pumpkin soup I find it very good. Well, it’s not…
Orzotto alle Zucchine (Pearled Barley with Zucchini and Saffron)
All of you know risotto, right? This is “about” the same, just it’s made using pearled barley rather than rice 🙂 (but it can be made also with pearled farro). We all know the importance of cereals, and this is an easy and very good way to cook barley, and the possibilities are many, like for…
Easy Autumn Grill :) Grilled Zander/Walleye
Yesterday evening the fisherman brought us an amazing 3 kg Zander from the Balaton lake…I already shared some recipes with this fish (HERE), but since the weather is still sunny I soon thought “that’s a perfect fish to grill tomorrow” 🙂 and I was definitely right 😛 one of the most simple ways to prepare food,…
Polpette di Luccio (Pike Fishballs)
With our great happiness, the fisherman had a nice pike to give us…I already wrote not long ago the recipe “Luccio alla Mantovana/Pike at the Mantua way“, instead today I decided to do this tasty recipe 🙂 This recipe can be either a nice appetizer (for example it can be perfect next to an “aperitivo“, during the “happy…
Paccheri with Beef Tail Sauce
As I wrote in the previous recipe “Coda alla Vaccinara“, I prepared some extra sauce to be able to cook the day after this incredibly tasty dish. You cannot imagine how intense was the aroma and flavor of beef in this sauce, after about 24 hours resting in the fridge 🙂 simply delicious. So, technically,…
Coda alla Vaccinara (Roman Style Braised Oxtail)
This is a great dish, one of those dish that you love to prepare and eat in a cool and cloudy day, like today for example 😀 I like this dish because it’s one of those dish where you can have a great taste with an ingredient that, at least once, it was considered poor…
Torta di Carote – Carrot Cake
Since long I wanted to do this cake, but for a reason or for another, I never had time. I used to eat it sometimes several years ago, but lately I didn’t. But this time the wish came to my mind suddenly, so I said to myself “yes, now I do it!” 🙂 The recipe…
Pesto alla Genovese
We are in September, soon the weather will get worse, and in the garden there is still a lot of basil….what to do with it? An original Pesto, of course 🙂 What is the Pesto? The word “pesto” comes from the word “pestare“, which is the movement with the traditional tool (called “pestello“) to make pesto. So…
A Bit of Clarity About Some Italian Traditional Pastas :)
Hello to everyone 🙂 As all of you probably know, in Italy there are thousands of pasta recipes, and many of them have not really strict “rules”, because many of those recipes can change from place to place or from family to family…but there are some recipes which are considered very traditional, they became famous (also…
Linguine con Finferli (Pasta with Chanterelles)
In this month of August it was raining quite a lot, so it was predictable that there would be mushrooms soon to come 🙂 the firsts I found at the local market were these very beautiful Chanterelles. These mushrooms are very good, personally I like them as much as the more valuable Porcini…but let me say…
Torta di Rose (Rose Cake)
Here it is another of my favorite cakes 🙂 and I tell you soon, there are no roses in the recipe, but the name is just because of the shape (I’ll tell you more, in my village of origin we call it also “Ricciolina”, which means small curls). This cake is typical of Lombardy region…
Polenta & Baccalá 