I love porcini mushrooms, just the smell it’s so inviting and the taste is simply amazing, it’s like having the forest in your dish 🙂 Obviously the best is when you can have fresh porcini, but dried porcini are a very good way to preserve them and to have them all year long. And they…
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Crescia, or Piadina Sfogliata Marchigiana – Italian Flatbread
In Italy we have several traditional flatbreads, they are really perfect for those summer days where you want something good but simple, and not too complicated to prepare. I already showed the most famous of them, the Piadina Romagnola. This is instead typical of Marche region, neighboring Emilia-Romagna. And like for the piadina romagnola also…
Piadina Romagnola – Italian Flatbread
In Italy, especially some areas of northern Italy, summer means also Piadina Romagnola 🙂 It’s probably the most famous Italian flatbread (after pizza, but that’s a category itself), and a very good and comfortable street food. It’s typical of Emilia-Romagna region (but only the Romagna part), and through all its territory its style gradually changes:…
Lasagne alla Bolognese
Wonderful, juicy, perfumed, fulfilling, eye-catching, opulent…there are so many adjectives to describe this worldwide famous recipe 🙂 For me it’s simply a masterpiece of the Italian tradition, definitely one of its milestones, and if we consider that at its base there is the likewise great Ragù alla Bolognese, then it couldn’t be otherwise 🙂 Already…
Pasta al Pomodoro Estiva – Pasta with Tomatoes, Hot Days Edition :)
Recipe is a big word here: it’s simply just pasta with a cold tomato sauce 🙂 but this doesn’t mean it’s not a great dish, not at all, it’s a great dish for those days when it’s very hot, imagine over 30 or 35 °C, when there is no air, when usually you don’t feel…
Linguine with Canned Tuna, Colatura and Lemon Zest
I don’t know in other countries, but in Italy when you say “pasta with canned tuna” many people think immediately to one of the typical and easiest recipes that students living away from home often do, or single men living alone, or people with few cooking skills, it’s kind of a stereotype 🙂 But in…
Farro Salad, with Cherry Tomatoes, Taggiasche Olives and Anchovy Fillets
As I wrote other times I really like legumes and cereals and I use them often, and this is a nice cold recipe which is simply perfect in summer, especially now that we have a lot of cherry tomatoes continuously growing in our garden 🙂 It’s really easy and you don’t need many things. If…
Salvia Fritta – Fried Sage Leaves
This is one of the most lovely snacks you can make to have something to munch on a good beer 🙂 moreover sage is probably my favorite herb, I really use it a lot during the whole year, either with meat or with fish, and almost always with potatoes too. It’s a very simple recipe,…
Spaghetti alla Nerano – Spaghetti with Zucchini in the Style of Nerano
What I’m going to show today is one of the most iconic recipes of Sorrento Coast/Capri island. If I say “pasta with zucchini” it might sound easy and simple (and for sure there are older “recipes” than this one, considering the simplicity of the ingredients), but in this case it’s not really like that 🙂…
Insalata di Baccalà – Dried and Salted Cod Salad
I already talked about the Baccalà in THIS post, and I also wrote something about the history of this great product and how it became so popular in Italy, so if you are interested about that background you can have a look there 🙂 This is one of the many ways you can use it,…
Capù – Cabbage Rolls, Brescia Style
Hi, today I’m showing one traditional recipe typical of my area of origin (Brescia province, but Bergamo too): the “Capù” 🙂 It’s a word in the local dialect (which literally means “capon”, no idea why, I suppose that maybe originally it was a dish reminding a meat dish that people couldn’t afford), I don’t think…
Insalata di Limoni – Lemon Salad
Here it is another amazing recipe that shows how great is a simple but fresh food. In this case a southern Italian lemon, beautiful, extremely perfumed, tasty, and not sour or bitter at all (and rich of vitamins)! Plus a good extra virgin olive oil, a good chili and a good fresh mint from the…
Polenta & Baccalá 