Pasta e Ceci – Pasta and Chickpeas, Neapolitan Style

This recipe it’s very similar to the recipe I showed in the post “Pasta e Fasule“, just this time we use chickpeas and not beans 🙂 Like that recipe, also this one is traditional of Naples area. It’s a creamy pasta, quite thick, but of course everyone can choose to have it more or less…

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina – Sorrento Style Gnocchi

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…

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…

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…

“Autumn Glass” :)

This is a simple and fast idea I had today, while thinking what to do with the last 2 persimmons remaining in the house 🙂 I used ingredients I had at home, and I have to say that though improvable, it was really good 🙂 And since the persimmon is one of the most typical fruits…

Pumpkin Gnocchi

Pumpkin gnocchi are apparently a simple recipe, but there are some details to take care to obtain a perfect soft gnocchi with a full pumpkin taste. Many recipes suggest to use also potatoes, but if in one hand it makes the work a bit easier, on the other hand it makes the pumpkin gnocchi heavier…

Polenta-Nachos :)

This is not really a recipe, but a nice use of leftovers, or at least what some people would think it’s not to eat 🙂 How did I make these “nachos”? I simply scraped the bottom of the pot after I made polenta at lunch 🙂 As often happens, there was a nice full layer of crunchy…

Frittata di Cipolle (Frittata with Onions)

Here it is again one of my favorite dish to prepare for a simple and fast dinner 🙂 I have already wrote a post about Frittata with Spinach, so now we will see the one made with onions 🙂 I used red onions in this case, but you can do it with the onions you…

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…

Creamy Pumpkin Soup

We are in October, the autumn has already begun, and with the first cool weather coming for me begins the season of the soups 🙂 I really like soups, especially in autumn/winter I use to prepare them quite often, usually for dinner, and the butternut squash/pumpkin soup I find it very good. Well, it’s not…