This is a recipe can be made successfully also as a risotto, but this time I wanted to try it with fregula, a typical type of pasta from Sardina island, made with durum semolina and water. Traditionally it is a homemade pasta, but you can find also very good artisanal products like what I found….
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Cacciucco alla Livornese – Livorno-Style Fish Stew
What I am going to show now it’s one of my favorite fish recipes, and it’s really a dish which is perfect for the feasts: the Cacciucco alla Livornese, the most typical dish of the Tuscan city of Livorno. It’s not properly a soup, because it is thicker and the liquids are being absorbed by…
Sarde a Beccafico – Palermitan Stuffed Sardines
First of all I want to specify that this is the recipe of Palermo, it’s important because the recipe of Catania is completely different. Very good too, but I will show it another time 🙂 This is a very simple recipe, but it requires some manual skills, and it’s absolutely important to have very fresh…
Mormore All’Acqua Pazza – Poached Sea Fish
Here it is another very simple and easy recipe, but that delivers always a great result 🙂 as always is important to choose a good fish and other ingredients, but it’s really simple to execute and I can tell you that you can really taste the sea! The name “acqua pazza” literally means “crazy water“,…
Sole à la Meunière – Sogliola alla Mugnaia
This is a classic and simple recipe of the French cuisine, but it is very popular also in Italy, and it’s really a good recipe. The butter fits very well with the sole (which is definitely a delicious fish, with a nice compact and firm flesh), and the lemon adds a perfect touch of freshness,…
Risotto with Red Scorpionfish
Here it is another risotto, with one of the best fish available on the market in my opinion: the Red Scorpionfish. It is a fish that traditionally is used for example in fish soups, but its fillet it’s really delicious, with a nice and nervous texture, and particularly tasty, more intense than many other fish….
Risotto with Tub Gurnard – Risotto alla Gallinella
Do you know the tub gurnard? In Italian we call it gallinella, and traditionally it’s one of those fish used to make many delicious fish soups, but its fillet it’s also very good and it can be used in many ways. In the past, like all the fish “for soups”, it was quite a poor…
Spaghetti with Fresh Mackerel
This time I’m going to show a very easy recipe that can be made at any day of the week 🙂 it’s very easy, and it’s very healthy because the mackerel is one of those oily fish which are rich in Omega 3 (and not only). Moreover it’s also not expensive at all. I have…
Pasta with Pilchards and Yellow Tomatoes – Spaghettoni con le Sarde e Pomodorini Gialli
I really love pilchards (Sarde in Italian), and every time I find them by my usual fishmonger I always buy them. Like all the fish of that kind (in Italy we call all these fish pesce azzurro), it is a very healthy fish, with high contents of Omega 3, which is good for the health…
Risotto with Bergamot and Perch
I’m sure many of you have already drunk the Earl Grey tea with bergamot flavor, and if you like that then probably you will love also this recipe 🙂 Bergamot is a very unique and very fragrant fruit of the citrus family, it is mostly used for its essential oil for flavoring, but also for…
Zander/Walleye Cheeks – Guance di Lucioperca
I don’t know how many of you know that the cheeks of the fish are some of the best parts, but for sure who is/has been an angler like me know 🙂 I used to go fishing regularly in Italy, cleaning my fish and learning to eat every part. Now I’m no longer fishing because…
Anguilla Laccata – Grilled Eel, Lacquered with Balsamic Vinegar and Port Wine
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…
Polenta & Baccalá 