I’ll tell you soon: this is a recipe that will take a looot of time, so be sure to be ready for it 🙂 but mostly it’s just about waiting. But before going to the recipe, I think an introduction is needed 🙂 Maybe some of you will think “why so much effort, when with…
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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…
Zabaione Cream
This is absolutely one of my favorite creams! And it’s fast and quite easy to make. It’s a cream to eat just as it is (and in the past grandmothers were preparing it for the nephews when they “needed energy”), or to be added on some cakes, for example a classic pairing is with panettone…
How to Recognize Them: Balsamic VinegarS
This is the second post of the series “How to recognize them” 🙂 following the previous about panettone and pandoro. On many Italian products I see that often there are not completely clear information about how they are made and what are the many differences between each of them, and sometimes some producers/sellers make profit of…
Pasta with Roe Deer Stew Sauce
This is not a real recipe, so there will not be a very detailed explanation, but it’s just a very good dish made with the “leftovers” of the very good Roe Deer Salmì/Stew that I previously prepared and explained 🙂 How to do it: First start boiling the pasta in salted boiling water (I used…
Capriolo in Salmì con Polenta Taragna – Venison Salmì/Stew (Roe Deer) with Polenta Taragna
Winter season to me means also juicy and tasty game recipes 🙂 And roe deer is one of my favorites. Let me tell you soon that to prepare a real salmì you have to leave the meat in a marinade for at least 24 hours, or even more, also 3-4 days. But this is needed…
How to Recognize Them: Panettone (and Pandoro/Colomba)
Panettone (and Pandoro) are probably the two most popular traditional Christmas cakes in Italy (and Colomba in Easter), and in the last years it’s possible to find more and more of them also abroad. But are they all the same? Of course not 🙂 I decided to write this post because some people I met…
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…
Pennoni with Jerusalem Artichokes Cream and Crunchy Pancetta
Do you like the Jerusalem artichoke, also known as topinambour? I do like it 🙂 Honestly, I have to say that until I lived in Italy I never ate this interesting root vegetable, but although I already heard about it and I also saw it in the italian vegetable stores, I discovered its taste only here in…
“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…
Spezzatino di Manzo (Beef Stew with Potatoes and Peas)
This is a recipe that at home my mom uses to make quite often, it’s not difficult and it’s also quite cheap since we are not using the “best” cuts of the beef 🙂 It’s a classic recipe through all Italy I think, and it can be a simple but tasty dish for your Sunday…
Polenta & Baccalá 