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…

ByMonica18 March 20230Comments

Bologna Food Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

The King’s Biscuits, recipe and history of cantucci of Bologna

The King's Biscuits look like cantucci both in shape and double baking. And just like cantucci, you can serve them at the end of dinner with vin santo and a good story (theirs). The King's cookies are crumblier and softer to the bite than their Tuscan cousins. The dough preparation is straightforward. After combining all the ingredients by…

ByMonica10 November 20220Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

Cocoa cookies. And the Italian ritual of the merenda

I'm thinking about the smell of the cocoa cookies I made yesterday as I sit on a bench in the gardens where I used to play as a child. It's a sunny morning in late April, the air is fresh but not cold, and I decide to wait here for the time to go to my…

ByMonica27 April 20220Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES Fruits INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

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…

ByMonica6 October 20210Comments

Bologna Food Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

St. Joseph’s Cookies With Vanilla Pastry Cream

Their half-moon shape reminds of fresh pasta ravioli, but raviole, at the female, are dry biscuits typical of Bologna. Today, instead of the traditional ones, filled with mostarda Bolognese, I preferred St. Joseph's cookies with pastry cream. St. Joseph’s cookies. On the blog, also find the more traditional recipe for raviole , the biscuits made on the…

ByMonica12 March 20210Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies Chocolate COURSES INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

Christmas Rituals And Salted Peanut, Chocolate Chip Cookies

Through time, some of my Christmas rituals have changed. New habits have replaced old rituals. When I was a child there was, above all, the great ritual of Christmas lunch and a series of minor but no less important rituals. Now that I'm married, I love to celebrate the evening of Christmas Eve when I host…

ByMonica1 December 20200Comments

Bologna Food Cakes and Cookies COURSES Gluten-free INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

Fave dei Morti cookies for Halloween. Italian tradition

Fave dei Morti cookies are typical of All Saints' Day. And when I was little, I didn't like them. Cemeteries, family, and biscuits. What I did enjoy was the traditional cemetery tours and visits to relatives we never saw. The tradition of the annual visit to the loved ones’ graves is almost lost. When I was a child,…

ByMonica28 October 20200Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

Italian Frollini Cookies And My Food Rituals

In your own cookbook can't miss a honest and rustic cookies recipe for breakfast. Frollini cookies are a classic among Italian sweet recipes for breakfast or merenda. So take pen and paper, write down the recipe and put it in your home cookbook. From today it will have a new page and flavor. The one for frollini…

ByMonica10 February 20200Comments

Aperitivo Appetizers Bologna Food Breads and Pizza Cheese INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

Savory Parmigiano Reggiano Cookies And Tastes of Emilia

Parmigiano cookies. A recipe that has been part of my repertoire for many years. Ever since I moved to Bologna two decades and a handful of years ago and, as a Bolognese-Romagnola raised on piadina (a typical flatbread of Romagna) and tortellini (as I was born in Imola, where Emilia ends and Romagna begins and vice versa),…

ByMonica12 April 20190Comments

Bologna Food Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

St. Joseph’s Raviole, The Cookies of Bologna

Welcome to Bologna. A city where the same name may indicate a fresh pasta or something sweet. So it happens that in Bologna there are sweet versions of tortellini, tagliatelle, tortelli and ravioli (but just ravioli become raviole, by taking the female name). For example, tortellini are little chocolates, tagliatelle and tortelli are also fried Carnival sweets.…

ByMonica19 March 20190Comments