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Eggless potato gnocchi with clams
Eggless potato gnocchi with clams. Cucina povera of Romagna
Online, you can find dozens of recipes for potato gnocchi with clams posted by as many Italian food bloggers. In this way, the recipe is everyone's and no one's. Yet, like so many other dishes, this one has its own history that no one remembers or that some people spread with mistakes attached, like the ones…
14 January 2025
Traditional spoja lorda in broth
Spoja lorda in broth (cheese stuffed pasta squares)
The cheese-filled squares of spoja lorda I put to dry on the pasta dryer look like puzzle pieces. In recent years, I have first scattered them on the table and then reassembled these pieces to create a new mosaic, more colorful and interesting, something in which I wanted to recognize myself again, feeling happy and proud…
4 January 2025
Sweet potato pudding, a recipe from cucina povera (without flour)
Potato pudding, a recipe from cucina povera (without flour)
Sweet potato pudding is a recipe that belongs to my family's repertoire and to the cucina povera of Bologna and Romagna, an area where potatoes are a traditional product and were historically part of the food diet of the poor people. I can still hear my maternal grandmother's voice as she laces up her apron, remembering…
28 December 2024
Stuffed capon of Bologna
Stuffed capon from Bologna, a home recipe for special events
The Christmas menu was a puzzle that, year after year, took shape and changed. Some dishes were untouchable dishes and others went in and out of the composition each time. Stuffed capon, in our house, also called galantina, was a Christmas dish of the second group. And if it did not take its place on the Christmas lunch…
12 December 2024
Spongata cake
Spongata cake, an old Christmas recipe from Emilia
Spongata cake is a recipe from Emilia that has very ancient origins. Signs of its ancestors can be traced to Etruscan, Jewish, and Roman cultures. In medieval times, nuns and monks reworked the recipe. Little by little, and that is the history of all the panspeziale (spice cakes) and panforte of Europe, the spongata cake left…
6 December 2024
Macaroni pie of Ferrara
Macaroni pie of Ferrara (pasticcio di maccheroni)
The macaroni pie, known as pasticcio di maccheroni alla ferrarese, is a traditional dish with very ancient origins. Because of this, it has undergone many modifications over the centuries. The current version combines medieval features with modern reinterpretations. The external shell is a sweet, shortcrust pastry; the filling is made with macaroni seasoned with a white…
21 November 2024
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
Bread of The Dead (piada dei morti). A typical fall recipe
Bread of The Dead (piada dei morti). A typical fall recipe
The bread of the dead (piada dei morti) is a typical autumn cake from Romagna, particularly from the province of Rimini and the municipalities of San Mauro Pascoli, Gatteo, and Savignano sul Rubicone in the province of Forlì-Cesena. This piada, which, despite its name, resembles a focacia, has a sweet dough and is typical for the…
26 October 2024
Ricciola brioche from Imola
Ricciola brioche from Imola, the savory rosemary bread roll
Ricciola brioche from Imola is a leavened savory roll halfway between bread and brioche that smells of rosemary. And it was one of the breakfasts and snacks of my childhood. Since 2023, it has been one of the products recognized as Bologna's De.Co, the list of agri-food products and traditional activities of Bologna and its metropolitan…
20 October 2024

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