This is a quick, easy peasy recipe that is also super healthy and 100% comforting. It’s thick and creamy, but without the cream. I added a little bit of love, serving it with a little Pecorino Romano and guanciale, but obviously it is just as …
Cecina is a very popular street food found predominately in Liguria, Livorno and Toscana, cooked in a wood fire oven and has a characteristic crunchy, golden crust. It’s basically made from chickpea flour, water and olive oil so for street food I’d call it …
There isn’t limit to the imagination when making risotto as far as ingredients go. We all know that the key to replicating beautiful Italian recipes is to respect and follow the seasons. This said, the abundance of pumpkins and Porcini mushrooms at the local markets …
I love that Autumn fills the markets with delicious pumpkins and every year I love to make Pumpkin Soup . Whenever I make soup though I always make too much, but this is a good thing because it means I can freeze some. What also …
Baccalà is simply salted cod. In Italian, when fresh or frozen, cod is known as merluzzo, if cured by air-drying it becomes stoccafisso (stockfish) and when salted it becomes baccalà. The words stoccafisso and baccalà are often interchanged but it’s interesting to understand the difference. …
Fish’n Chips When I think about eating Fish and Chips, I think about eating them on an Australian beach, wrapped in newspaper, as once was tradition. Well if I’m totally honest when I was younger, newspaper was replaced with white butcher paper. The paper …
Summer in Italy isn’t complete without eating a good plate of ‘fritto’, either as an antipasto or as a main ‘secondo’ after a primo of pasta. Often you will find ‘fritto misto’ on the menu which includes calamari, prawns, and a selection of small fish, …
My last post discussed Arancini Siciliani and I felt it is only fair that I also publish a recipe for Supplì – especially considering that Rome adopted me when I moved here from Tuscany almost five years ago. The history of supplì in Rome is …
If travelling throughout Italy you will definitely enjoy some of the great street food that is on offer, most of it with historic traditional stories attached. Fried rice balls differ as we travel from Rome, down south and into Sicily. Supplì are traditionally found in …
Carbonara, one of Italy’s most celebrated pasta dishes is a traditional Roman recipe, and often made incorrectly around the world. I’ll confess that for many years I was making this recipe all wrong too. While I will frequently rave about my mother’s cooking and her …