Recipes

Authentic homemade Italian recipes, easy and full of flavor. Enjoy traditional and affordable dishes, perfect for any occasion.

Appetizers, Recipes

Chickpea, arugula, and cherry tomato salad with anchovy vinaigrette

4 July 2015 /

Chickpea, arugula, and cherry tomato salad with anchovy vinaigrette, a healthy, refreshing, and beautiful recipe just because! I have prepared a fairly economical and simple version of this invention, but it is quite common to add boiled shrimp or diced tuna instead of the anchovies. If you like, you can also add the anchovies whole, instead of minced in the…

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Artichoke savory tart with ham and ricotta
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Desserts, Recipes

Ricotta cheesecake

30 June 2015 / No Comments

Do you fancy a delicious cheesecake, but with a lot fewer calories than the more traditional ones and without the need to use light substitutes? Well, prepare it with ricotta! As you already know, ricotta is an Italian fresh cheese, a sibling of cottage cheese. It has about 174 calories per 100 grams. The cheese used to make NY cheesecake…

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Almond crostatine with orange pastry cream and caramelized strawberries
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Caprese cake recipe: flourless chocolate and almond cake
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Mascarpone cream cup with Nutella and chili chocolate
7 February 2013
Appetizers, Recipes

Summer antipasto: Figs with ham

28 June 2015 / No Comments

Delicious! Figs with ham! Simple, but attractive, due to the combination of sweet and salty. What a discovery! I had never eaten them together before. Besides, it must be said, figs have something aesthetic, decadently complicated, yet elegant, that with just a little bit of arranging, it looks like you have a Baroque still life on the table. It serves…

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Artichoke savory tart with ham and ricotta
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Tomato and watermelon bruschetta with gourmet mascarpone cream
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Main courses, Recipes

Pasta with tomato and mascarpone sauce

26 June 2015 / No Comments

I’m still alive! And I’m back with a super easy pasta recipe based on tomato and mascarpone. One of those that kids eat happily, perfect for starting their vacation, mornings at the pool, and afternoons of games full of energy. The other day I went to the supermarket, calmly, to browse, something I had really missed, because for the last…

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Main courses, Recipes

Roman-style pasta and potatoes with bacon

13 February 2015 / No Comments

Pasta with potatoes! A typical recipe from Roman cuisine, very economical, easy, loved by children, and highly recommended for cold days. When I arrived in Rome, one of the things that surprised me the most, gastronomically speaking, was seeing pizzas topped with potatoes. I don’t mean aberrations like hot dog pizza with frozen french fries, but the well-known pizza with…

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Lemon risotto with aged goat cheese and basil
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Main courses, Recipes

Pasta with porcini mushrooms (tagliatelle ai funghi porcini)

5 November 2014 / No Comments

Pasta with boletus (porcini mushrooms) is an exquisite dish, yet simple to make, very popular in Italy, especially during mushroom season. There are variations in which other ingredients like sausage or pancetta are added, although perhaps the most common alternative to the one I am presenting to you today is the one that also includes a little heavy cream. Today…

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