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,…
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Sfincione di Bagheria
Here we are in Sicily again, with another special and particular type of pizza/focaccia 🙂 I have already wrote a post about the most famous Sfincione (symbol of the city of Palermo), this instead is a traditional recipe of the town of Bagheria. This is also not a light recipe, and it’s something traditionally eaten…
Rianata Trapanese
Here it is another type of focaccia/pizza that is possible to find travelling through Italy 🙂 This is a recipe typical of the city of Trapani, in western Sicily, and its name derives from an ingredients which is used in high amount, the oregano (which in local dialect is called “riano”). And all the other…
Piscialandrea/Sardenaira – Traditional Ligurian Focaccia
Here it is a new post with a recipe from the endless world of the Italian focaccia/pizza 🙂 This time we are in Liguria region, more precisely in the western part bordering with France. The Piscialandrea it’s just one of the many names that this recipe has between the villages and towns of that area,…
Pasta with Puntarelle
Puntarelle are one of the interesting vegetables available in this season. Where I come from, northern Italy, they are not very common, but in central and southern Italy they are widely used, especially in Lazio region where the stems and shoots are eaten raw in a salad, simply seasoned with olive oil, anchovies and garlic….
Sfincione Palermitano
This is one the most famous street foods of the city of Palermo, Sicily. At a first sight it might look like a pizza, but it’s more like a focaccia. It has a very soft dough, thanks also to the little fat used, it’s spongy, it’s usually thick, and it’s topping it’s very tasty 🙂…
Mustazzeddu – Focaccia from Sardinia
Here it is another of the many types of Italian focaccia. This time I prepared a typical recipe of Sardinia region, the Mustazzeddu. But it is known also as Pratzida, Prazzira, Sa pani cun tamatiga (literally bread with tomato), and for sure some other names too, depending on the area/villages 🙂 It seems this recipe…
Caciocavallo all’Argentiera – Caciocavallo Cheese, Sicilian Recipe
This is a recipe that will make you smile 🙂 and it will turn a simple dinner into something very delicious. I still have a good amount of caciocavallo Ragusano DOP at home, from the last time I came back from Italy, and I love that cheese. This cheese is obviously perfect as it is,…
Crostino Toscano – Chicken Liver Pâté, Tuscan Recipe
If you have been in Tuscany I’m sure you know this wonderful recipe. I used to go in holiday in Tuscany every summer with my parents, probably about 10 years long, and every year I used to eat this 🙂 so if I’m thinking to Tuscany, this is one of the main dishes jumping in…
Pasta e Cicerchie – Pasta and Grass Peas/Chickling Vetch
Today a recipe with one of the most unknown and not much used legumes: the grass pea, known also as chickling vetch and several other names (in Italian cicerchia) 🙂 It’s a good legume first of all, and as all the legumes I like it. In the past it was very common and it was an…
Arrotolato di Coniglio – Stuffed Rabbit
I know that in some countries eating rabbit is not well seen, but in some other countries like mine it is a traditional food, so it’s normal. And I think it’s very good 🙂 In my family, in Italy, we always had rabbits, so I grew up eating it quite often. And I’m happy that…
Paccheri with Cauliflower Cream, Romanesco Broccoli and Parmigiano
Cauliflowers, broccoli, Romanesco broccoli they are very good and healthy vegetables, so I like to use them 🙂 also because I like them 😀 Usually I simply steam/boil them and eat as a side dish, not long ago I made also a very good Quiche. But this time I want to show a very good…
Polenta & Baccalá 