I haven’t cooked sausage mummies, spider cookies, malloween ghosts and bloody apples. Even worse, I have never tried any of these Halloween recipes. I’m reluctant (isn’t this mostly a matter of food colorants?). One day, why not, I’ll do my homework and create my scary treat too. Meantime I observe what’s going on in the …
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Pumpkin Gnocchi With a Butter Walnut Sauce
No way I can make a good pumpkin pie. I haven’t tried it yet but somehow I sense it’s just not my cup of tea. However some kind of pumpkin puree magic must happen in my kitchen since I’ve got a few tins of smashed squash to get rid of. Bear with me, another couple …
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Best of Italian Flavors in a Simple Dish: Piennolo Tomato Sauce
If you think that buying a ready made pasta sauce is the right way to treat your pasta, you’re far, extremely far from cooking a real Italian dish. Italian food is all about freshness of a few ingredients: I must have written it in my blog a thousand times! I’m usually very enthusiastic about presenting my …
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On Summer Pasta Salad and on Why you Should Not Rinse Pasta with Cold Water
Pasta is my favorite dish, so quick to cook and easy to season that would be on my table every time I can cook at home. If I only didn’t need to feed my body with nutrients other than carbs! It’s (also) a matter of laziness, I guess. To try out new and more exotic …
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Vegetarian Ragu’
From the French “ragout” (meat, fish or vegetables cut into pieces and stewed) the Italian regional cuisine developed two main types of sauce: one with minced meat known as Bolognese sauce, the other one resulting from the long (LONG, 3-4 hours) cooking of big chunks of meat in tomato sauce, as in the case of …
Pasta with Peas and Fava Beans
In Italy we call this dish “Pasta e Piselli”, definitely one of the most prepared main in Naples and its region, where it is very common to mix pasta with legumes. Remember my Pasta e Fagioli (sorry for the horrible pics)? These dishes were once considered food of the poor, now they are well rooted …