After having already wrote about Carbonara and Amatriciana, here it is another classic recipe of the Roman cuisine: the Pasta alla Gricia. This is the simplest of the 3, indeed only 4 ingredients are required: pasta, guanciale, pepper and Pecorino cheese. But if apparently it might seem an easy recipe, to obtain the best result…
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Zuppa di Ceci – Chickpeas Soup
Here it is another very good and healthy legume soup: I love legumes 🙂 You can find many recipes about chickpeas soups (for example in Tuscany there is a similar recipe but they add fresh tagliolini pasta too), but I really like this one, with the extra flavor given by the rosemary which fits very…
Pasta e Lenticchie – Pasta and Lentils, Neapolitan Style
Here it is another very good traditional pasta recipe coming from the area of Naples, following the similar previous ones made with beans, with chickpeas and with potatoes 🙂 Lentils are a very good and healthy legume, rich in proteins and in iron. There are various types of lentils, with different colors, shapes, size. And…
Bucatini all’Amatriciana
Here it is one of the most famous and iconic recipes of Italy 🙂 I could eat it 1000 times, and I could never get bored of it! So simple, and so perfect, few ingredients matching perfectly to each others, et voilà: a little masterpiece 🙂 The name “Pasta all’Amatriciana” comes from the place of origin, the…
A Bit of Clarity About Some Italian Traditional Pastas :)
Hello to everyone 🙂 As all of you probably know, in Italy there are thousands of pasta recipes, and many of them have not really strict “rules”, because many of those recipes can change from place to place or from family to family…but there are some recipes which are considered very traditional, they became famous (also…
Pasta alla Carbonara
Finally! 😀 Pasta alla Carbonara, one of the most famous traditional Italian recipes, one of the favorites by many italians, but also one of the most distorted Italian recipes outside Italy, if I can say it 😀 in these last years I saw all kind of possible ways about how to ruin such a simple and…
Polenta & Baccalá 