I love game meat, in winter I use to prepare it more times, and wild boar is between my favorites. I use to prepare it stewed, with usual Italian flavors, but this recipe it’s very unique for nowadays common taste, and the first time it can be very surprising 🙂 perfect for some special occasion….
Tag: olive oil
Spaghettoni al Pomodoro
Today 5th of December I prepared one of the best “spaghettoni al pomodoro” I ever did…how is this possible, almost in winter? The answer is simple: with amazing products, like these “pomodorini del piennolo del Vesuvio” (or other similar great artisanal products), simply picked up when perfectly ripe, squeezed with hands and carefully put in…
Caciocavallo all’Argentiera – Caciocavallo Cheese, Sicilian Recipe
This is a recipe that will make you smile 🙂 and it will turn a simple dinner into something very delicious. I still have a good amount of caciocavallo Ragusano DOP at home, from the last time I came back from Italy, and I love that cheese. This cheese is obviously perfect as it is,…
Zander/Walleye Cheeks – Guance di Lucioperca
I don’t know how many of you know that the cheeks of the fish are some of the best parts, but for sure who is/has been an angler like me know 🙂 I used to go fishing regularly in Italy, cleaning my fish and learning to eat every part. Now I’m no longer fishing because…
Scaccia Ragusana – Ragusa-Style Stuffed Flat Bread, Traditional Recipe
When you say “focacce”, Sicily is definitely one of the first regions that jump in my mind. They have a huge tradition about focacce, all amazingly good. Two years ago we have been in Ragusa and surroundings, a wonderful place, rich of history, Baroque buildings, landscapes and a mouthwatering gastronomy. And one of the most…
Dandelions Cake, with Potatoes and Provola Cheese – Tortino con Tarassaco, Patate e Provola
Today, since autumn is giving us still wonderful days, we decided to go for a trip between the fields in the countryside, looking for dandelions 🙂 At home my parents are often eating wild herbs, all year round, mostly from their field and surroundings. But here I never took the time to go looking for…
Crostino Toscano – Chicken Liver Pâté, Tuscan Recipe
If you have been in Tuscany I’m sure you know this wonderful recipe. I used to go in holiday in Tuscany every summer with my parents, probably about 10 years long, and every year I used to eat this 🙂 so if I’m thinking to Tuscany, this is one of the main dishes jumping in…
Polpo Ubriaco – Drunken Octopus
Today I made another recipe with one of my favorite ingredients, the octopus 🙂 It’s a typical recipe from Tuscany (polpo bria’o in the local dialect), but also from Sicily (purpu mpriacu in the local dialect), it’s very simple and you need very few ingredients. It is called ubriaco (drunken) simply because it is simmered…
Cavatelli e Cicerchie – Pasta and Grass Peas
Another very simple but tasty and healthy recipe with what is a simple and poor ingredient: the grass pea. I already wrote a couple of posts about it lately (HERE and HERE), this time is a recipe using a typical pasta type from southern Italy, more precisely from Molise region, but also Puglia and Basilicata:…
Zuppa di Cicerchie, Lenticchie e Grano Saraceno – Soup with Grass Peas, Lentils and Buckwheat
Here I am with another of my beloved legumes soups 🙂 As I said many times, I eat legumes regularly, and I like to have dinner with legumes soups. Even in summer, in that case I eat them just warm 🙂 You can mix them how you prefer (of course you have to take care…
Rana Pescatrice in Umido – Anglerfish with Seasonal Vegetables Sauce
Today a fish that is ugly but good 😀 the Anglerfish (in Italian coda di rospo or rana pescatrice). Actually I don’t find it ugly, just strange. But for sure I like it 🙂 It has a huge head and the edible part is basically the tail (and also the cheeks in larger fish), but…
Focaccia Genovese
Have you ever been in Liguria region, for example in Cinque Terre, or in Genoa? And did you try that Focaccia (in the local dialect Fügassa) you can find everywhere there, that one with the holes”? 🙂 If you didn’t I’m very sorry 😀 but it’s really a great thing and you should try it….
Polenta & Baccalá 