Sunday lunch ideas – Polenta & Baccalá

Tortelli Mantovani

After many years since the last time, I have been few weeks ago to visit the beautiful city of Mantova.It’s a city full of art and history, and it has also a typical cuisine which I like (well, it’s not far from my home). And between all the dishes, I would like to show now…

Cacciucco alla Livornese – Livorno-Style Fish Stew

What I am going to show now it’s one of my favorite fish recipes, and it’s really a dish which is perfect for the feasts: the Cacciucco alla Livornese, the most typical dish of the Tuscan city of Livorno. It’s not properly a soup, because it is thicker and the liquids are being absorbed by…

Venison Neck

I love game meat, especially in winter time I like to eat it, and I am really happy to find different ways to prepare it and to use all the cuts. This is not a difficult recipe at all, it just requires some time, but the result is really nice. Moreover, if you don’t hunt…

Chicken Cacciatore – Pollo alla Cacciatora

Here it is another recipe of the Italian tradition, a dish you can find probably through all the country with some variations, but the concept is the same. It’s very easy and it requires few ingredients typical of our cuisine, and important is to have a good chicken too 🙂 INGREDIENTS (2 people): 1 chicken,…

Mormore All’Acqua Pazza – Poached Sea Fish

Here it is another very simple and easy recipe, but that delivers always a great result 🙂 as always is important to choose a good fish and other ingredients, but it’s really simple to execute and I can tell you that you can really taste the sea! The name “acqua pazza” literally means “crazy water“,…

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…

Risi e Bisi (with Goose Confit) – Risi e Bisi, con Oca in Onto

When it comes the season of fresh peas, one of the very first recipes that come to my mind is this traditional recipe of Veneto region 🙂 It might seem a risotto, but it’s not made with the usual process of the risotto. The rice is not usually first toasted, and all the soup is…

“Roastbeef Style” Fallow Deer

I am sure that many people heard about the classic English roast beef recipe, that nice piece of beef cooked medium or medium/rare, and then usually served cold and thin sliced. But I saw on some hunters groups that it was possible to do it also with game meat, so since I had at home…

Saddle of Deer, Purple Sweet Potatoes Purée, Asparagus

Here it is another nice recipe with game meat to do on Sunday: as I said other times, I really love game meat, it is very tasty, lean, the animals for sure had a good life and nutrition, it is just one of the healthiest meats for sure. This time I wanted to play with…

Roast Chicken, in Cocotte

Roasted chicken, “easy” someone might say 🙂 instead to cook well a whole chicken I think it’s not that easy, and for cooking it well I mean to have juicy meat (also the breast!), nice skin (possibly crunchy) and beautiful fresh flavor of fresh herbs. Most of the times I choose to cook the chicken…

Capretto al Forno – Oven Baked Goat Kid

It’s Easter again, and like always in my family, I also like to keep the tradition of eating lamb, or even better goat kid. As I wrote already in the previous post, I know many people nowadays are against that, but I grew up with a different background, we always had animals, and I have…

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,…