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…

Spaghetti con le Vongole – Spaghetti with Clams

This is one of those traditional recipes that I love: so simple, few ingredients, so fast and so perfect 🙂 you cannot make it better with some modern fancy tricks, it’s already perfect as it is 🙂 Of course, there are details to take care to have the best result, as always 🙂 if you…

Spaghetti alla Nerano – Spaghetti with Zucchini in the Style of Nerano

What I’m going to show today is one of the most iconic recipes of Sorrento Coast/Capri island. If I say “pasta with zucchini” it might sound easy and simple (and for sure there are older “recipes” than this one, considering the simplicity of the ingredients), but in this case it’s not really like that 🙂…

Spaghetti in Acqua di Limone – Spaghetti in Lemon Water

This is a lovely recipe perfect for these hot days 🙂 the beautiful lemon note and the mint add a wonderful freshness to the dish! And a great perfume 🙂 I came back right now after some weeks in Italy, and as always I brought back with me a lot of good food 🙂 between…

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

This is a very easy recipe, really for everyday use 🙂 The ingredients are simple, easy to find, and the procedure it’s not difficult at all. It’s a typical recipe from Campania region, and it’s very common also in Lazio region, but through all Italy this recipe is famous. There are some differences between the…

Spaghetti with Yellow Tomatoes…a travel back to the Summer :)

It’s November, but in these days the sun is still shining, the warm colors of the autumn are coming and I felt the wish to cook something matching with this nice atmosphere 🙂 I looked in my pantry and I remembered I had a jar of yellow tomatoes bought this summer in southern Italy…I was…

Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino (Alternative Recipe)

Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino…just the name makes me think to that nice and inviting smell 🙂 Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino is another of the most famous and simple recipes of the Italian cuisine, it’s that recipe you can do when you don’t know what to do, and since the ingredients are few and very simple there…

Pasta alla Carbonara

Finally! 😀 Pasta alla Carbonara, one of the most famous traditional Italian recipes, one of the favorites by many italians, but also one of the most distorted Italian recipes outside Italy, if I can say it 😀 in these last years I saw all kind of possible ways about how to ruin such a simple and…

Spaghetti with Colatura di Alici

This is a recipe typical of southern Italy, it’s very simple, healthy and fast to do, and it’s one of my favorite recipes. Since the sauce is a cold sauce, you just need a pot to boil the pasta (and a pan for the bread, ok). As many other Italian recipes, it’s based on few…