This a perfect recipe for the autumn season, when there are the pears. I chose the Fatulì, because I was recently at home in Italy and we went up to Valle Adamé for a nice walk between the mountains, and as always I love to pick the local artisanal products 🙂 It’s a traditional smoked…
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Fregula con Gallinella – Fregula Pasta with Tub Gurnard
This is a recipe can be made successfully also as a risotto, but this time I wanted to try it with fregula, a typical type of pasta from Sardina island, made with durum semolina and water. Traditionally it is a homemade pasta, but you can find also very good artisanal products like what I found….
Minestra di Tenerumi – Soup with Sicilian Courgette Leaves
This year we decided to try for the first time to grow in our garden the “Serpente di Sicilia”, a very nice and particular vegetable of the Gourd family that is typical of Sicily. Its scientific name is Lagenaria longissima. But the particularity of this specific vegetable it’s also that its leaves are edible, and…
Octopus Ragu – Ragù di Polpo
Octopus again 🙂 I have already shared several recipes with it, as I already said it’s one of my favorite ingredients and I really love it in every way. This recipe it’s not difficult, it just requires some time and constant attention. And for me this is one of the very best pasta recipes I…
Pasta with Sicilian Pesto
This recipe has nothing to do with the Pesto Genovese, but it’s not less good 🙂 With “pesto siciliano” often we refer to the recipe made with sun-dried tomatoes (delicious!), but also with good and ripe cherry tomatoes (it’s even more fresh). There are different options, someone for example also use pine nuts…all are very…
Meatballs – Polpette al Sugo
Who doesn’t love meatballs (except vegans/vegetarians obviously)? 😀 I am sure that everyone have a family recipe you love, something your grandmother or your mom used to do, and which is one of your favorite comfort food ever 🙂 Today I am going to show my recipe. A cut I love for it is the…
Lasagne al Pesto
Do you you have too much pesto at home? 😀 then here it is a good solution 😀 If you love pesto, then you are going to love this recipe. It requires some job, but it’s not too complicated, moreover if you prepare more you can also freeze it, and eat it whenever you want,…
Penne with Pistachio Pesto and Mortadella
After having posted a recipe with pistachio pesto and dried tomatoes, here it is another easy and fast recipe, where this time the pistachio pesto is paired with a very good mortadella, a classic and perfect match 🙂 INGREDIENTS (2 people): 180 g penne 100 g pistachio pesto (about 60% pistachio, 40% extra virgin…
Lagane e Ceci – Fresh Pasta and Chickpeas
Here it is one of those warming recipes that are simply perfect to prepare during those cold evenings 🙂 It’s very simple and it was a recipe of the rural society, through all southern Italy there are several variants, especially in Calabria, in Cilento and in Lucania, but fundamentally they are all very similar. The…
Spaghetti with Pistachio Pesto, Sun Dried Cherry Tomatoes and Ricotta Infornata
Here it is a delicious recipe of the Sicilian cuisine, with its typical flavors. It’s a recipe whose flavors will literally explode in your mouth 🙂 The pistachio is typical of the island (famous the one from the village of Bronte), the sun dried tomatoes too, and also the “ricotta infornata“, a particular ricotta which…
Pasta with Yellow Zucchini and Crunchy Cured Ham
Between the summer vegetables zucchini are for sure between the ones I used the most. This year we decide to try to grow in our garden a particular yellow type, not really a rarity but definitely it’s a type of zucchini that you don’t really see often in the shops and markets. The taste is…
Linguine con Polipetti – Pasta with Small Octopus
As I already said other times, I love octopus 🙂 but also the small octopus are nice too and they can be perfect in this simple recipe with pasta, it’s really a summer recipe. The recipe can be maybe either with small octopus or with musky octopus (you can recognize them because the musky octopus…
Polenta & Baccalá 