This is one of those “very winter” recipes 🙂 I managed to accidentally find here the Appenzeller cheese (a cheese with a 700 years history), which is a very good mountain cheese from Switzerland, more precisely of the Appenzell canton, so I thought that this recipe would be perfect. There are 3 types of this…
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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…
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…
Zuppa di Maltagliati, Calamari e Ceci Neri – Soup with Calamari (Squids), Black Chickpeas and “Maltagliati” Pasta
I’ll be short: I tried this recipe recently and I think it’s already between my favorites! I bought not long ago a package of black chickpeas, I new they were different than the regular ones but I wouldn’t expect such a different taste, and with calamari they fit really well. Black chickpeas? Yes, I know…
Oxtail with Dark Beer Sauce
Here I am with a new recipe of a cut I really like: the beef tail 🙂 Yes, I use to like what maybe most of people don’t buy 😀 but this cut is really great, and it has such a great and intense flavor that few other cuts of the animal can match with…
Pasta e Cicerchie – Pasta and Grass Peas/Chickling Vetch
Today a recipe with one of the most unknown and not much used legumes: the grass pea, known also as chickling vetch and several other names (in Italian cicerchia) 🙂 It’s a good legume first of all, and as all the legumes I like it. In the past it was very common and it was an…
Pheasant Soup, with Ravioli filled with its Meat and Porcini Mushrooms / Brodo di Fagiano con Ravioli
I think all of you know what is a pheasant, but maybe not everyone know that you can make a very good and delicate broth with it 🙂 and with a beautiful golden color. It’s more a “cold weather” recipe maybe, but since I realized that I still had a pheasant in the freezer and…
Risotto With Chanterelles and Asiago DOP Cheese
The chanterelles season is back, finally 🙂 I love them, and I love to cook them very simply, indeed my favorite recipe is with pasta (click HERE to say the previous recipe) and almost nothing else added. But also in the risotto they are great, and in this case I decided to add also a…
Brasato di Manzo – Beef Braised in Red Wine
Here comes one of the most famous recipes in Italy 🙂 when some feasts come, this is one of those recipes people might consider. It’s a recipe where the quality of the ingredients will help a lot on the final result: the most famous version indeed is the “Brasato al Barolo”, as the name says…
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…
Polenta & Baccalá 