I heard many people saying they don’t like eel because of its snake-like shape, but what can I say? If properly cooked it’s simply delicious 🙂 By us, in Italy, it’s a very valuable product, famous are the ones from the Valli di Comacchio, and famous is the so called capitone (the big females), mostly…
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Steak Tartare
Probably many people don’t like the idea to eat raw meat, and to be honest, even if I have no problem to eat it, I also prefer other ways to use the meat 🙂 but in my wife’s family it’s tradition to eat it at New Year’s Eve, so once in a year I can…
How to Recognize Them: Balsamic VinegarS
This is the second post of the series “How to recognize them” 🙂 following the previous about panettone and pandoro. On many Italian products I see that often there are not completely clear information about how they are made and what are the many differences between each of them, and sometimes some producers/sellers make profit of…
Pan-seared Flank Steak, with “kind of” Chimichurri Sauce :)
Today one of the most amazing but maybe underrated beef cuts: the flank steak. The flank steak is a cut from the belly, it’s a cut with a lot of muscular fibers and if you want to cook it as a steak you have to cook it fast and at high heat, otherwise it will…
Polenta & Baccalá 