This is one the most famous street foods of the city of Palermo, Sicily. At a first sight it might look like a pizza, but it’s more like a focaccia. It has a very soft dough, thanks also to the little fat used, it’s spongy, it’s usually thick, and it’s topping it’s very tasty 🙂…
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Lécso (Hungarian Vegetable Stew)
The lécso is a typical Hungarian vegetable stew, usually with the addition of sausage. It’s a very simple but tasty recipe, and it can be found in several different recipes through the country. Moreover is a very common dish also in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia but also in some parts of Germany (obviously with local…
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:…
Quiche Lorraine
Today I’m writing a post about a famous recipe of the French cuisine, which I also really like 🙂 The Quiche Lorraine is probably the most famous of this kind of French salty cakes/tarts, or at least one of the most famous. I had the chance to eat it in France and also here in…
Casatiello / Tortano – Traditional Easter Bread
Easter has gone also this year, and as always I spent a lot of time in the kitchen 🙂 A tasty lamb for Sunday (as usual), and for the Easter Monday this year I decided to make for the first time this very famous recipe of the Neapolitan tradition. Casatiello and Tortano are very similar:…
Birkapörkölt – Hungarian Sheep Stew
The Birkapörkölt is one of those recipes which fits perfectly on a Sunday lunch in a cold day or in those grey days. Pörkölt in Hungarian means stew, and this recipe can be used also for other kind of pörkölt (beef, veal, venison), with little variations. Personally I really like the particular taste of sheep…
Sbrisolona Cake
The Sbrisolona is a cake typical of Mantua area, it’s hard, friable and rich (of calories 😀 ), it’s a rustic recipe with a poor origin (from the old peasant culture, as often) and with a history that dates back several centuries (it seems the first recipes are from the XVI/XVII century), and some sources…
Polenta & Baccalá 