Not long ago I managed to find wild ducks, and as soon as I saw it I immediately thought about making this very tasty recipe 🙂 There are various types of wild ducks, but almost all of them I think are fine to make this recipe: mallard, gadwall, Eurasian teal, Eurasian wigeon, northern pintail, garganey,…
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Peposo – Traditional Tuscan Stew
This is a very tasty and juicy recipe, typical of Tuscany and more precisely of Florence area. It’s a very old recipe, and its complete name is “Peposo alla fornacina” or “Peposo dell’Impruneta“, because it seems it was created in the XV century by some brick cookers at the kilns situated at Impruneta, a town on…
Birkapörkölt – Hungarian Sheep Stew
The Birkapörkölt is one of those recipes which fits perfectly on a Sunday lunch in a cold day or in those grey days. Pörkölt in Hungarian means stew, and this recipe can be used also for other kind of pörkölt (beef, veal, venison), with little variations. Personally I really like the particular taste of sheep…
Ököruszály leves – Hungarian Ox Tail Soup
This is my second post about traditional Hungarian recipes, following the previous Harcsapaprikás 🙂 This time it’s about a soup, the ox tail soup (Ököruszály leves in Hungarian). Well, that’s what was usually used in the past, when oxen were used as working animals and there were more of them, nowadays they are less and…
Cacciucco di Ceci -Tuscan Chickpeas Stew
This is another wonderful dish that I like to eat for dinner in winter time 🙂 Often this recipe is considered a side dish, but if you eat a good portion for me it’s enough to make a normal dinner 🙂 Like many recipes of the Tuscan cuisine, it’s a very tasty dish made with…
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…
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…
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…
Carbonade Flamande (Flemish Stew)
This typical recipe from Belgium comes together with my passion for Belgian beers. The original recipe is usually made with beef, but since I had a nice venison (roe deer), I decided to try with that, and it was really good! Believe me! 😀 The choice of the beer is very important, I suggest to use…
Polenta & Baccalá 