Between the summer vegetables zucchini are for sure between the ones I used the most. This year we decide to try to grow in our garden a particular yellow type, not really a rarity but definitely it’s a type of zucchini that you don’t really see often in the shops and markets. The taste is…
Tag: ham
“How To Recognize Them” – Italian Dry Cured Hams
Often outside Italy I hear people referring to “Italian prosciutto”, but that definition doesn’t mean much, and it doesn’t guarantee automatically if it’s a good product or not 🙂 there are so many varieties of cured ham in Italy, with different characteristics, that to be appropriate we should talk at the plural, and we have to…
Wild Garlic Fresh Pasta, with Parma Ham and Parmigiano Reggiano – Pasta all’Aglio Orsino
This is the season of the wild garlic (known also as ramsons or bear’s garlic), do you know it? Personally I knew it, I heard about it, but until I was living in Italy I never used it and only here in Hungary (where is called “medvehagyma”) I started to use it and I really like…
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 🙂…
Duck Ham (Magret de Canard Séché)
This is a simple preparation to do at home, and it will give you a very good product to taste as appetizer, and if you have guests at home they will be surprised to see it 🙂 All you need is a duck breast, salt and spices 🙂 The duck you need is that kind…
Polenta & Baccalá 