After many years since the last time, I have been few weeks ago to visit the beautiful city of Mantova.It’s a city full of art and history, and it has also a typical cuisine which I like (well, it’s not far from my home). And between all the dishes, I would like to show now…
Tag: pasta
Penne with Pistachio Pesto and Mortadella
After having posted a recipe with pistachio pesto and dried tomatoes, here it is another easy and fast recipe, where this time the pistachio pesto is paired with a very good mortadella, a classic and perfect match 🙂 INGREDIENTS (2 people): 180 g penne 100 g pistachio pesto (about 60% pistachio, 40% extra virgin…
Lagane e Ceci – Fresh Pasta and Chickpeas
Here it is one of those warming recipes that are simply perfect to prepare during those cold evenings 🙂 It’s very simple and it was a recipe of the rural society, through all southern Italy there are several variants, especially in Calabria, in Cilento and in Lucania, but fundamentally they are all very similar. The…
Spaghetti with Pistachio Pesto, Sun Dried Cherry Tomatoes and Ricotta Infornata
Here it is a delicious recipe of the Sicilian cuisine, with its typical flavors. It’s a recipe whose flavors will literally explode in your mouth 🙂 The pistachio is typical of the island (famous the one from the village of Bronte), the sun dried tomatoes too, and also the “ricotta infornata“, a particular ricotta which…
Pasta with Yellow Zucchini and Crunchy Cured Ham
Between the summer vegetables zucchini are for sure between the ones I used the most. This year we decide to try to grow in our garden a particular yellow type, not really a rarity but definitely it’s a type of zucchini that you don’t really see often in the shops and markets. The taste is…
Linguine con Polipetti – Pasta with Small Octopus
As I already said other times, I love octopus 🙂 but also the small octopus are nice too and they can be perfect in this simple recipe with pasta, it’s really a summer recipe. The recipe can be maybe either with small octopus or with musky octopus (you can recognize them because the musky octopus…
Pasta alla Gricia
After having already wrote about Carbonara and Amatriciana, here it is another classic recipe of the Roman cuisine: the Pasta alla Gricia. This is the simplest of the 3, indeed only 4 ingredients are required: pasta, guanciale, pepper and Pecorino cheese. But if apparently it might seem an easy recipe, to obtain the best result…
Cavatelli with Peperoni Cruschi and Pecorino
This is the kind of authentic Italian recipes I love: few good quality ingredients and simplicity 🙂 It’s a typical recipe of Lucania, an area mostly part of Basilicata region, and the fact I managed to find also the Pecorino of Moliterno made it really authentic 🙂 But the main ingredient is the peperone crusco,…
Pasta with Potatoes, Provola Cheese and ‘Nduja
After the previous recipe “Pasta with ‘Nduja“, here it is another recipe with this unique ingredient typical of Calabria region. And this is really a scrumptious recipe, with some stingy cheese too 🙂 The basic recipe is about the same of the famous Neapolitan “Pasta e patate“, and I simply added the nduja, that of…
Pasta with ‘Nduja
I realized that I didn’t write any post yet about that amazing ingredient which is the ‘Nduja! 🙂 I’m not using it often because I don’t always find it, but when I see it I usually never miss it. The ‘nduja it’s a spreadable meat product typical of Calabria region, especially the area of Spilinga….
Spaghetti with Fresh Mackerel
This time I’m going to show a very easy recipe that can be made at any day of the week 🙂 it’s very easy, and it’s very healthy because the mackerel is one of those oily fish which are rich in Omega 3 (and not only). Moreover it’s also not expensive at all. I have…
Pasta with Pilchards and Yellow Tomatoes – Spaghettoni con le Sarde e Pomodorini Gialli
I really love pilchards (Sarde in Italian), and every time I find them by my usual fishmonger I always buy them. Like all the fish of that kind (in Italy we call all these fish pesce azzurro), it is a very healthy fish, with high contents of Omega 3, which is good for the health…
Polenta & Baccalá 