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…
Category: Vegan/Vegetarian
Macco di Fave – Fava Bean “Purée”
This is a recipe typical of Sicily, but similar recipes can be found also in other southern Italian regions. It’s a very simple recipe of the peasant tradition, so with ingredients that traditionally were considered poor, in particular the fava/broad beans. It’s a recipe that can be made either with fresh or dried fava beans,…
Panissa (or Paniccia)
This is one of those old recipes that were called “poor recipes”, but as all those recipes, poor or not, they are just as delicious as they are simple 🙂 And it couldn’t be more simple, basically 2 ingredients! It’s about like making a polenta, then to fry (but there is also who prefer to…
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…
Torta di Pane – Stale Bread Cake
I love bread, good bread I mean, but not always I can eat it all 🙂 not a problem, we always do breadcrumbs that we always need in the kitchen, but this is another good way to use old stale bread 🙂 actually it’s not a recipe, it’s one of those things that people in…
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…
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,…
Gateau di Zucca, Patate, Porcini e Provola – Pumpkin and Potato Cake, with Porcini and Provola
This recipe it’s like having the autumn in your dish, you can really taste the season 🙂 It’s simply a wonderful recipe, originally in the Neapolitan cuisine it is made just with potatoes (Gattò di patate) and filled with ham or salami, and cheese obviously, but it’s a recipe that can be modified in some…
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…
Focaccia Barese
New blog post about another of the countless traditional focaccia made in Italy 🙂 This time we are in Puglia, a beautiful southern Italian region. And focaccia barese it’s so good that it’s famous almost through the whole country. As the name say, it is typical of Bari, which is the capital city of the…
Cavatelli with Peperoni Cruschi and Pecorino
This is the kind of authentic Italian recipes I love: few good quality ingredients and simplicity 🙂 It’s a typical recipe of Lucania, an area mostly part of Basilicata region, and the fact I managed to find also the Pecorino of Moliterno made it really authentic 🙂 But the main ingredient is the peperone crusco,…
Polenta & Baccalá 