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…
Category: Main Courses / Secondi piatti
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…
Zuppa Valdostana (Mountain Soup)
Is it cold enough out there? Then it’s the perfect weather to prepare this super tasty soup! 🙂 The “Zuppa Valdostana” (whose name in the local dialect is “Seupa à la Vapelenentse”) is one of the most typical and famous recipes of Valle D’Aosta region, that small Italian region in the Alps next to France and…
Mediterranean Seabass Fillet with Olives and Pine Nuts
The Seabass is one of the most appreciated fish, and there are reasons why 😀 It’s very tasty, its flesh is firm and the fillet is boneless, it’s perfect for everyone 🙂 This is a very easy and fast recipe, so we can do it whenever we want! All we need are few ingredients: the…
Frittata di Cipolle (Frittata with Onions)
Here it is again one of my favorite dish to prepare for a simple and fast dinner 🙂 I have already wrote a post about Frittata with Spinach, so now we will see the one made with onions 🙂 I used red onions in this case, but you can do it with the onions you…
Baked Zander/Walleye with Walnuts Crust
I use to cook the fillet of the Zander in the pan, but this is a recipe that sometimes I like to do and in this case the fillet is going to be baked. It’s more common to see recipes of fish with toasted almonds, but also walnuts sometimes can be an interesting choice. It’s…
Tasty Sandwich, with Porchetta, Fontina cheese and Grilled Vegetables
Tasty dinner this evening! 🙂 today we went to one of our favorite shops in Budapest, and we found a nice Porchetta and, joy to my eyes, a real Fontina DOP! 🙂 I bought Fontina to make a traditional recipe which I’ll cook in the following days, but I thought that it was a good idea to…
Candele spezzate alla Genovese (or simply “La Genovese”)
This is one of those recipes that makes your Sunday special 🙂 It’s probably the most typical pasta sauce of Naples area (and incredibly quite unknown in the rest of Italy), we can say it’s a recipe that has a “ritual” in it, and traditionally it’s a recipe that gathers the whole family (several people…
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…
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…
Filetti di Persico Reale dorati (“Golden” fillets of European Perch)
Here we are again with a fish recipe, very common in the area of Lombardy region lakes 🙂 and this is one of my favorites, I would eat a lot of this crunchy and boneless fillets! And I really like the European Perch. The most difficult part, if you are not used to do it,…
Polenta & Baccalá 