Have you ever tried this traditional recipe from Sorrento (and extended to the Naples area)? If the answer is no, then you definitely should 🙂 I prepared them together with my wife, it might sound a bit long to prepare, but it’s not too complicated and what’s more important it’s very very good 🙂 The…
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Manzo all’Olio – Beef in Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The “Manzo all’olio” is a very special recipe, one of those recipes that will make your Sunday lunch absolutely special. It’s a very old and famous traditional recipe typical of my origin area in Italy, more precisely from the town of Rovato, in the Franciacorta wine region, near to lake Iseo, but you can find…
Legumes and Cereals Soup
Here I am again with another wonderful soup 🙂 This typically winter recipe will make you full easily 😀 and I don’t need to say that it’s very healthy. To make it really tasty I suggest to use a little bit of lardo, pancetta or bacon in the base, and also a Parmigiano Reggiano rind…
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…
Steak Tartare
Probably many people don’t like the idea to eat raw meat, and to be honest, even if I have no problem to eat it, I also prefer other ways to use the meat 🙂 but in my wife’s family it’s tradition to eat it at New Year’s Eve, so once in a year I can…
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…
Pan-seared Flank Steak, with “kind of” Chimichurri Sauce :)
Today one of the most amazing but maybe underrated beef cuts: the flank steak. The flank steak is a cut from the belly, it’s a cut with a lot of muscular fibers and if you want to cook it as a steak you have to cook it fast and at high heat, otherwise it will…
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…
Fennel Creamy Soup, with Pearled Farro
Here it comes one of my favorite recipe for this season’s dinners 🙂 I like the fennel bulb, also raw in salads (for example it matches very well with orange), but probably I like it better in soups, it gives a very particular taste, half way between sweet and not. And paired together with a…
“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…
Linguine with Pike
As I already wrote previously, the Northern Pike is a very good fish, but if usually most of the recipes prepare it as a second course/main course, I have to say that it’s possible to prepare some great pasta recipes too, as I’m going to show you now 🙂 And I have to say that…
Polenta & Baccalá 