Recetas tradicionales italianas
Pasta, risottos, and Italian soups at their best. Simple, homemade recipes to enjoy authentic Italian cuisine at home.
One of the simplest, fastest, and most satisfying ways to make a guest feel Italian is to sit them down in front of a good plate of spaghetti alla puttanesca. I have had non-Italians try this and other pasta dishes, and with puttanesca, there is always some comment related to what I have just assured you. I suppose it comes…
Today I didn’t feel like making dinner, which usually means that, more than hunger, I don’t feel like fighting against my lilliputian kitchen. Do you know what the dimensions are of the surface where I chop vegetables, roll out dough, etc., etc., and etc.? 60 x 32 cm. I’ll add the fact that I don’t have a dishwasher and that,…
Yes, that thing in the background of the photo is Dracula wine. Sorry, Dracula Merlot. It was a gift from a neighbor we had when we lived in Bracciano, as a souvenir from Romania, his homeland. I confess I only put it there to decorate the photo, because we still haven’t uncorked the bottle. I know there’s nothing uglier than…
I want to give pasta a few weeks of vacation, because I’m afraid it might “burn out,” but not before giving you the recipe I’ll be talking about today: Mezze Maniche with speck, arugula, and cherry tomatoes. When I first discovered it, we lived through a period of extreme romance, of not being able to live without it, daydreaming about…
Have you noticed, those of you who have been to Rome, that among the paintings and photographs that adorn the walls of restaurants in the center, you often find a photograph of Alberto Sordi eating spaghetti? The most curious thing about it is that almost all tourists find it very funny, they recognize the lead actor, but they cannot say…
A couple of weeks ago I had a brief moment of excitement: I found salted, shelled sunflower seeds in a supermarket. You might say: So what? And I say that, just like white asparagus, pâtés, and a few other things I’m too embarrassed to admit I miss, they are products that are hard to find in Rome. When I go…
