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Sabadoni
Sabadoni cookies from cucina povera of Romagna and Bologna
Sabadoni cookies are sweet, rectangular-shaped tortelli filled with chestnuts and a handful of other ingredients. They are a typical sweet from the cucina povera of Romagna, which we can find under the same name or under that of chestnut tortelli in an area that also includes Bologna and Ferrara. The name sabadoni comes from saba, the…
7 November 2024
Mustard of Bologna
Mustard of Bologna (mostarda Bolognese): the recipe
Mustard of Bologna is a typical local product. It is a mixed fruit jam used to prepare some local cakes. For example, it is the filling of pinza (the traditional ciambella cake of Bologna), sweet tortelli, and raviole, the peasant cookies made on St. Joseph's Day. Or, as in the case of Panone Bolognese and Christmas…
30 October 2024
Plum Ketchup
Homemade plum ketchup
This plum ketchup is lightly spiced and sweet and sour. It is a versatile sauce that works well with roasts, cheeses, salads, burgers, and chips. Transforming and preserving is something I enjoy. I guess it is the little girl who grew up in a home with a peasant grandmother skilled in making sweet and savory preserves who…
31 October 2023
Peach leaf liqueur
Peach leaf liqueur recipe. An old fashioned aromatic wine
Over the centuries, men and women who have chosen to live in monasteries have created a cuisine that reflects the simplicity and composure of their lives. The recipes from the monastic tradition celebrate much of what we have lost these days as the seasonality of produce and natural processes. The cuisine of the convents Monks and nuns…
4 July 2023
Torta di prugne dell'Appennino bolognese
Plum cake of the Bolognese Apennines recipe
The plum cake of the Bolognese Apennines is part of the culinary tradition of my land and is a dessert with an old fashioned flavor. On the border I was born on the border between Emilia and Romagna. Precisely in Imola, Romagna cuisine and culture in Emilia territory. Father's family, which came on the border between Romagna…
30 September 2022
No-sugar strawberry milkshake recipe
Eighties, hamburger and strawberry milkshake
I was born and raised in a small Italian town surrounded by the countryside. Those who are born in a village know it. Life flows slowly. I consider myself lucky. Otherwise, I would not be here telling the story of a small-town milkshake. The Popeye's strawberry milkshake. The eighties and life in a small town Today everything is…
11 May 2022
Pere cotte all'alchermes
Alchermes poached pears filled with mascarpone cream
Poached pears in alchermes, and cooked fruit in general, recall me the old-fashioned cuisine. When fruit, stored in boxes for the winter, was always present on the table. Fresh and in season, or cooked. Today, I eat less fruit than I used to and, consequently, buy less. And to think that until a few decades ago, when I…
10 February 2022
Homemade pickled vegetables
A family recipe. Homemade pickled vegetables (Giardiniera)
Pickled vegetables, in this case, sweet and sour, are called Giardiniera in Italian. A very poetic name since it evokes the word garden. Giardiniera brings to mind the colors of the dish and the vegetables from the garden. It is an ancient method of preserving vegetables in season and eating them the next. I still remember when, at…
9 November 2021
Radicchio salad with plum, Roquefort and prosciutto crudo cubes
Radicchio salad with plums, Roquefort and prosciutto cubes
In Italy, the season of red and field mixed radicchio, with its glowing colors, begins with the arrival of autumn. I am just buying some ruby red radicchio when I see crimson plums. Thinking about the sweetness of the fruit and the bitterness of the radicchio, I buy both. Salad, always in season Depending on the time of…
18 October 2021
Lemon biscuits recipe
Lemon biscuits. A home cook and food writer
I am a home cook who writes about food. And as with this lemon cookies recipe, I share flavors that have the simplicity and richness of the best food I have ever tasted. The home food. Writing about food. What food? I have tasted the deliciously perfect food of some starred chefs and the satisfyingly ready-made food…
6 October 2021

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