Mille-feuille filled with anchovy, tomato, and ricotta: This simple and quick recipe turns out to be very appealing, ideal as a starter or, in small portions, perfect for an appetizer. About the Ingredients: As I highlight in the video, one of the key ingredients of this dish is the pane Carasau. Originating from Sardinia, this bread is characterized by being…
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Pasta alla gricia
A close relative of the Carbonara and the Amatriciana. A classic of Roman cuisine, prepared with rigatoni or spaghetti, ready in 20 minutes and without any complications. The guanciale, the part of the pig’s cheek, the base of the dish, is sometimes difficult to find outside Italy. Even if it sounds…
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Chicken stew with olives (spezzatino di pollo con le olive)
This chicken stew with olives is a real surprise. Super tasty and it’s prepared in about the same time it takes to cook it on the grill. I had seen it for a long time in this Italian recipe page, but I never dared to try it, because we like it so much chicken cacciatore or with peppers that I end…
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Potato and carrot risotto
Recipe for a day when you feel like eating rice, but your fridge is quite empty you don’t feel like spending much. It is also an excellent way to prepare a risotto for the first time, since the degree of difficulty is minimal. Actually, it all comes from the other day when I got nostalgic and craving for…
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Pasta cacio e pepe (cheese and black pepper) a la romana
The recipe for spaghetti cacio e pepe, one of the best, most delicious, pleasant, cheap, quick and easy to prepare, classic spaghetti dishes of Roman cuisine. All you need is spaghetti, pecorino romano and black pepper. This cheese is called pecorino because it is made with pecorino milk, which in Italian means sheep. There are several types of pecorino, but only 5…
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Amatriciana pasta (bucatini all’amatriciana)
Another super classic: pasta a la Amatriciana. As I said when I posted the spaghetti alla Carbonara around here, it’s difficult to talk about some very popular and well-known recipes of the Italian cuisine. There are several versions and radical fans of one or the other not only defend the one they make at home as no more and…