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…
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Sbrisolona Cake
The Sbrisolona is a cake typical of Mantua area, it’s hard, friable and rich (of calories 😀 ), it’s a rustic recipe with a poor origin (from the old peasant culture, as often) and with a history that dates back several centuries (it seems the first recipes are from the XVI/XVII century), and some sources…
Kaiserschmarrn (Traditional Austrian Dessert)
Kaiserschmarrn is a quite simple dessert, that kind of dessert that makes you comfortable and that gives you a “home atmosphere”, especially if you serve it in the old way inside an iron pan, as they often do in Austria or Bavaria 🙂 Kaiserschmarrn is a sort of pancake which is then broken into smaller…
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…
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…
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…
Pumpkin Gnocchi
Pumpkin gnocchi are apparently a simple recipe, but there are some details to take care to obtain a perfect soft gnocchi with a full pumpkin taste. Many recipes suggest to use also potatoes, but if in one hand it makes the work a bit easier, on the other hand it makes the pumpkin gnocchi heavier…
Zuppa Valdostana (Mountain Soup)
Is it cold enough out there? Then it’s the perfect weather to prepare this super tasty soup! 🙂 The “Zuppa Valdostana” (whose name in the local dialect is “Seupa à la Vapelenentse”) is one of the most typical and famous recipes of Valle D’Aosta region, that small Italian region in the Alps next to France and…
Torta di Carote – Carrot Cake
Since long I wanted to do this cake, but for a reason or for another, I never had time. I used to eat it sometimes several years ago, but lately I didn’t. But this time the wish came to my mind suddenly, so I said to myself “yes, now I do it!” 🙂 The recipe…
Torta di Rose (Rose Cake)
Here it is another of my favorite cakes 🙂 and I tell you soon, there are no roses in the recipe, but the name is just because of the shape (I’ll tell you more, in my village of origin we call it also “Ricciolina”, which means small curls). This cake is typical of Lombardy region…
Crostata
It’s been a while without posting anything (in the last weeks we’ve been in Amalfi coast, Naples and Sicily, and we didn’t really want to use internet 🙂 ), so I think it’s time to do some new posts 🙂 This is one of the most typical cakes eaten for breakfast in the Italian families, and…
Filetti di Persico Reale dorati (“Golden” fillets of European Perch)
Here we are again with a fish recipe, very common in the area of Lombardy region lakes 🙂 and this is one of my favorites, I would eat a lot of this crunchy and boneless fillets! And I really like the European Perch. The most difficult part, if you are not used to do it,…
Polenta & Baccalá 