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Friggione of Bologna Recipe
Friggione of Bologna Recipe (Onion and Tomato Pot)
Time and again, I want recipes that require few ingredients and just a spoonful of love to add the right flavor to each dish. Like the friggione, it is not just an onion sauce, even if it is that but rather one dish with identity and history. In 1886, Mrs. Maria Manfredi Baschieri writes the friggione…
21 July 2020
Lemon Barley Water Recipe, Summer Refreshing Soft Drinks
Lemon Barley Water Recipe, Summer Refreshing Soft Drinks
Lemonade yes, barley water no. When I was a child, and even afterward. Until I decided to correct the traditional taste of barley water. Instead of an almond drink, I prefer the fresher taste of lemon. A strange reconciliation. The last barley soft drink I drank was in Plaza Mayor in Madrid on one of the strangest nights of…
17 July 2020
La macedonia secondo Pellegrino Artusi e secondo me
Macedonia Recipe. According To Artusi And In My Opinion
Fruit salad? No thanks, I take a macedonia. The forgotten and rediscovered fruit salad. For decades, macedonia has disappeared from the Italian table. If at the restaurant you asked, not for a fruit salad, but just for fruit at the end of a meal, you would be offered pineapple. And in a country like Italy, rich in many…
13 July 2020
Soft peach cake
Old Mills, Stone-Milled Flour And Easy Peach Cake Recipe
A like arké. When we talk about food and the processing needed to produce it, stone-ground flour is a real arké (from the old Greek ἀρχή: principle, origin). The technique of the stone mills is, in fact, one of the oldest methods in the transformation of wheat into flour. And today in the production of…
8 July 2020
Homemade Fruit Syrups And The Bonfire Season
Homemade Fruit Syrups And The Bonfire Season
How hot it was around those fires. When I reached the countryside in the early afternoon, work was almost finished. And at the end of the day I was stunned by the number of jars and bottles of jams, syrups or passata di pomodoro that had been made and found place in the wooden boxes,…
6 July 2020
Polpette di melanzana
Eggplant Balls Recipe. For Hunger And For Love.
Especially during the summer I love cooking vegetarian meatballs with the products that the garden offers. Like these of eggplant. But before the recipe I would like to tell you a story about an eggplant and me. And about the day I realized how much the kitchen was an important part of me. Eggplant, summer flavor and Parmigiana.…
1 July 2020
Cherry and walnut jam recipe
Cherry and walnut jam and a day at the market
Cherry and walnut jam. One spring-summer fruit and one of the autumn. Fresh fruit and "shell fruit". Together they make a perfect pair. At the market. The fruits of the first spring month, the month of may, bring the promise of summer in their colors. Strawberries and cherries dye the market stalls red, anticipating the juicy freshness and bright…
18 June 2020
Cold Cream Of Asparagus Soup With A Spoonful of Stracchino
The Right Recipe. Asparagus Cold Cream
The right recipe makes always the difference. But how to decide if it’s the right recipe? Before to start making this cold asparagus cream, or any other recipe, it may be useful to ask ourselves a few questions to decide whether or not what we have chosen is the right recipe for us. Four issues…
13 June 2020
Cheese crespelle with broad beans, peas and asparagus
Italian cheese crespelle with broad beans, peas and asparagus salad
I love all egg dishes, don't you? If I am in a hurry, I choose eggs as the main ingredient for a quick and tasty recipe. In addition, in the blink of an eye, they become crespelle and frittata to which you can add or mix other ingredients to make exquisitely simple dishes. And seasonal, like cheese crespelle…
6 June 2020
How to Make Homemade Old-Fashioned Preserves
How to Make Homemade Old-Fashioned Preserves
New post from my kitchen pantry on how to make homemade old-fashioned preserves like an Italian nonna. But keeping in mind today's needs! If you're in the mood for jams and marmalades, even cooked-and-eaten, but  a genuine, old-style taste, you might need a post with Grandma's advice. What I've learnt. There was a time when at home many…
30 May 2020

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