Have you ever tried this traditional recipe from Sorrento (and extended to the Naples area)? If the answer is no, then you definitely should 🙂 I prepared them together with my wife, it might sound a bit long to prepare, but it’s not too complicated and what’s more important it’s very very good 🙂 The…
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Manzo all’Olio – Beef in Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The “Manzo all’olio” is a very special recipe, one of those recipes that will make your Sunday lunch absolutely special. It’s a very old and famous traditional recipe typical of my origin area in Italy, more precisely from the town of Rovato, in the Franciacorta wine region, near to lake Iseo, but you can find…
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…
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…
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…
“Pasta e Fasule” (Pasta and Beans, Neapolitan style)
In Italy there are a lot of “pasta e fagioli” variations (“fasule” means fagioli, beans, in neapolitan dialect), most of them are real soups, but the one made in Naples area is different, it’s much more thicker and differently than for all the others the pasta is boiled inside the beans soup and not in…
Linguine with Pike
As I already wrote previously, the Northern Pike is a very good fish, but if usually most of the recipes prepare it as a second course/main course, I have to say that it’s possible to prepare some great pasta recipes too, as I’m going to show you now 🙂 And I have to say that…
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
This is a very easy recipe, really for everyday use 🙂 The ingredients are simple, easy to find, and the procedure it’s not difficult at all. It’s a typical recipe from Campania region, and it’s very common also in Lazio region, but through all Italy this recipe is famous. There are some differences between the…
Mediterranean Seabass Fillet with Olives and Pine Nuts
The Seabass is one of the most appreciated fish, and there are reasons why 😀 It’s very tasty, its flesh is firm and the fillet is boneless, it’s perfect for everyone 🙂 This is a very easy and fast recipe, so we can do it whenever we want! All we need are few ingredients: the…
Spaghetti with Yellow Tomatoes…a travel back to the Summer :)
It’s November, but in these days the sun is still shining, the warm colors of the autumn are coming and I felt the wish to cook something matching with this nice atmosphere 🙂 I looked in my pantry and I remembered I had a jar of yellow tomatoes bought this summer in southern Italy…I was…
Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino (Alternative Recipe)
Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino…just the name makes me think to that nice and inviting smell 🙂 Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino is another of the most famous and simple recipes of the Italian cuisine, it’s that recipe you can do when you don’t know what to do, and since the ingredients are few and very simple there…
Pesto alla Genovese
We are in September, soon the weather will get worse, and in the garden there is still a lot of basil….what to do with it? An original Pesto, of course 🙂 What is the Pesto? The word “pesto” comes from the word “pestare“, which is the movement with the traditional tool (called “pestello“) to make pesto. So…
Polenta & Baccalá 