The “Manzo all’olio” is a very special recipe, one of those recipes that will make your Sunday lunch absolutely special. It’s a very old and famous traditional recipe typical of my origin area in Italy, more precisely from the town of Rovato, in the Franciacorta wine region, near to lake Iseo, but you can find…
Category: Sunday lunch ideas
Ragù alla Bolognese / Bolognese Sauce, Italian Recipe
And also the day for the post on the “Bolognese Sauce” finally arrived 😀 What to write about this iconic and one of the most famous Italian recipes in the world? Thousands of posts have been written on the web, many of those not really respectful of the origins and the tradition of this amazing…
Casoncelli Bresciani (Very Good Italian Filled Pasta)
As you know, in Italy we have countless types of filled pasta, each of them with different names, and often the same type can have different names from province to province or even from village to village sometimes 🙂 Casoncelli are one of those, they are the ones typical of my area of origin, and…
Capriolo in Salmì con Polenta Taragna – Venison Salmì/Stew (Roe Deer) with Polenta Taragna
Winter season to me means also juicy and tasty game recipes 🙂 And roe deer is one of my favorites. Let me tell you soon that to prepare a real salmì you have to leave the meat in a marinade for at least 24 hours, or even more, also 3-4 days. But this is needed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Polenta & Baccalá 