Seasonal vegetables and fruit in the fridge, some aromatic herbs on the balcony and a pantry with the essentials: even just pasta, rice, canned legumes. This may be enough for quick and easy recipes but at the same time wonderful, and to remind us once again it is Donna Hay: Australian, superstar of the kitchen, […]
Tag: traditional recipes
The farro salad according to Sonia Peronaci
L’salad it is the perfect single dish that we like so much in the summer in the office, at home, but also on the beach: the favorite for 3 out of 10 Italians according to Coldiretti / Ixè data. IS a joker: it is done quickly, it can be taken anywhere, even the denied in […]
The recipe for light eggplant parmigiana
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There eggplant parmigiana it’s a kind of legend: some say she was born in Sicily because it is there that in the fifteenth century the Arabs imported the aubergine, there are those who claim that it was born in Naples but also, considering the name, many do not exclude that its origins are a Parma. […]
The perfect sauce for every type of pasta
There pasta it is a serious matter and cannot be improvised: 4 out of 5 Italians, according to a DOXA-Unione Italiana Food research survey, always choose the format according to the seasoning. Why it has to be: science says that there is a precise surface-to-volume ratio according to which the quantity of sauce must always […]
Typical Roman recipes: three dishes that (perhaps) you have not yet tasted
There are thousands of typical Roman recipes, why in the kitchen of Rome there is the whole immense history of Rome: the rich city of kings through which, among many others, the first Etruscans who were a people of merchants, then the emperors who were the first to bring rich foods, spices, oil and wine […]
6 new cookbooks for spring recipes
Ingredients: For the compote: 4 oranges, 200 g of sugar, 1 vanilla pod. For the cannoli: 250 g of weak flour, 125 g of red wine, 40 g of lard, 18 g of sugar, 2 g of salt, 10 g of ground coffee. For the filling: 200 g of sheep ricotta, 50 g of powdered […]
5 traditional Easter recipes (without lamb)
A few lines in an article are certainly not enough to do justice to Italian culinary history, nor would it be possible to list all the dishes – region by region – that enrich it. However, we decided to tell a small part of it, from Piedmont to Campania, to make your festive table tasty […]
The «square» Carbonara to celebrate Carbonara Day
Nobody touches us there bacon and egg: it remains a sacred dish of Roman cuisine and one of the most loved throughout Italy and the world. A research commissioned by the pasta makers of Unione Italiana Food at the Piepoli Institute reveals that for 8 out of 10 Italians it is a “matter of the […]
Scarpaccia viareggina: how to prepare the sweet zucchini cake
If Anglo-Saxon desserts often include vegetables in the dough of desserts – just think of cakes with beetroot, rhubarb and zucchini bread – here it is not so common. Yet, there is a small Tuscan city that has definitely welcomed zucchini with eggs, sugar and vanilla: the viareggina shoe, simple and ancient. Defined as a […]
Fried Carnival: 5 sweet recipes
TO Carnival every fried is worth. Ah, isn’t that the saying? We apologize, it is that these days we are inspired and the appetite is constantly stimulated by the scent of powdered sugar and vanilla that the air carries everywhere. This holiday season closes the winter, so we particularly appreciate the explosion of color and […]