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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
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
eggplant cutlets
Bolognese eggplant cutlets (baked or fried)
I think I have already written this, but I want to reiterate: I love the month of August and, above all, Bolognese eggplant cutlets even though, since it is a recipe from Italian peasant cuisine, I am sure that, with few or many variations, there are sister recipes in many regions. I was before plunging into…
6 August 2024
Stuffed tortelli with salame rosa, cheese, and sage pears
Stuffed cappelletti with salame rosa, cheese and sage pears
About stuffed cappelletti and failures in the kitchen. I am a home cook, and my teachers have been the grandmothers, aunts and azdore who frequented my home kitchen. Often the teaching was unintentional. In most cases, I learned through what I saw and the molecules of scented particles I breathed in. The kitchen and I I cooked, for…
10 May 2023
Bolognese cutlet recipe
Bolognese cutlet: traditional recipe from Bologna
Among traditional Italian meat cutlet recipes, in addition to the Milanese and the one known as elephant's ear or the Viennese, the Bolognese cutlet also deserves a place of honor. It is a recipe that today you can often find revisited with heavy cream or cheese to speed up preparation and accentuate fat taste, considered wrongly…
22 April 2023
Raviole of Bologna filled with sour cherries
Raviole of Bologna made with red wine shortcrust pastry
Words that make us feel good should be carried with us always. For instance, my friend Gilla claims that if I want to, I will have a great vegan chef. Thanks to her, I started using new ingredients like peanut butter for making the shortcrust pastry of these Raviole of Bologna.   Gilla's words motivate me to step out…
18 March 2023
Crescente con i ciccioli
Stories of focaccia with lardo and a yellow school bus
Focaccia with lardo is a masterpiece among Bologna's recipes. Even if, in Bologna, the typical focaccia is called  crescente. There are two different kinds of focaccia. Exists a kind of short crescente ("e" ending, don't miss) made with finely minced prosciutto mixed into the dough. It is simply delicious. And then there is a more leavened…
14 March 2023
Stuffed Fennel. Ancient recipe from Bologna
Stuffed Fennel. Ancient recipe from Bologna
Stuffed fennel recipe, Bolognese style. And perhaps the statement alone represents news. In fact, people are unlikely to associate fennel, a vegetable, with the typicalities of Bologna. Bologna is the home of tortellini, lasagna, tagliatelle and cured meats, primarily mortadella. And charcuterie and fresh pasta are indeed two relevant cornerstones in its gastronomic history, but, in the…
27 February 2023
Bean broth recipe
Bean broth with passatelli. Peasant broth recipe
Bean broth is one dish of Italian cucina povera that belongs to my family history and the area where I was born and raised. It was the broth of peasants. Today it is a forgotten recipe that deserves new attention. The pot of bean broth is vegetarian, gluten and lactose-free, and cheap. Terroir, between poetry and pragmatism There…
8 February 2023

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