All of you know risotto, right? This is “about” the same, just it’s made using pearled barley rather than rice 🙂 (but it can be made also with pearled farro). We all know the importance of cereals, and this is an easy and very good way to cook barley, and the possibilities are many, like for…
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Pesto alla Genovese
We are in September, soon the weather will get worse, and in the garden there is still a lot of basil….what to do with it? An original Pesto, of course 🙂 What is the Pesto? The word “pesto” comes from the word “pestare“, which is the movement with the traditional tool (called “pestello“) to make pesto. So…
Linguine con Finferli (Pasta with Chanterelles)
In this month of August it was raining quite a lot, so it was predictable that there would be mushrooms soon to come 🙂 the firsts I found at the local market were these very beautiful Chanterelles. These mushrooms are very good, personally I like them as much as the more valuable Porcini…but let me say…
Torta di Rose (Rose Cake)
Here it is another of my favorite cakes 🙂 and I tell you soon, there are no roses in the recipe, but the name is just because of the shape (I’ll tell you more, in my village of origin we call it also “Ricciolina”, which means small curls). This cake is typical of Lombardy region…
Gazpacho Andaluz
As I said in the previous post, I came back right now from Spain, and since I’m still in a kind of spanish mood, what’s better than a gazpacho in a hot summer evening to keep staying in this spanish mood? 🙂 Gazpacho, like many other popular and traditional recipes, has for sure different variations,…
Caprese (Buffalo Mozzarella salad)
This is one of the best things to eat when the weather it’s hot and you just want something refreshing and not heavy, no doubts about it 🙂 And look at it and its colors! That’s Italy! 🙂 Let me say that I cannot call this a “recipe”, because basically this is just assembling few…
Risotto with Asparagus
This is the season of the asparagus, so, let’s run to buy some of them and let’s do something good 🙂 Asparagus can be cooked in many ways, but the best ways are the simple ones, where we are not going to cover too much its delicate taste: this risotto I think it’s one of those…
Eggplant Cream (Italian version)
This is one of my favorite creams to spread on a good bread, as appetizer or also as a simple but delicious dinner, next to some other fresh vegetables for example 🙂 It’s very common in southern Italy, but not only, and from region to region is possible to find it with different aromatic herbs,…
Frittata di Spinaci (Frittata with Spinach)
Finally, frittata! 🙂 Frittata is a typical recipe for the dinner in Italy (famous is the “frittatona con cipolle” in Fantozzi, a very famous comic movie in Italy), but also for picnics….indeed it’s very good also when is cold, maybe inside a sandwich made with a good ciabatta 🙂 It is used to say that…
Polenta & Baccalá 