Pasta e fagioli

Pasta with cannellini beans
Embé da Campana mica mi potevo sottrarre alla ricetta del mese coi fagioli…. you find the event here and here eh no! So, even though very in the rush I made it, in the meanwhile I just arrived in Portugal — stay tuned, I will post from here in these days! The [...]

Fillo pockets with radicchio, cheese and pears

Taschine di fillo con radicchio, provola e pere
Fillo pastry is a kind of “not when I am in the rush” thing, but with a few tricks you can have delicious bites in a relatively short time. Here are my “tricks”: 1) spray oil instead of brushing butter on each sheet (which also makes your recipe [...]

Gnocchetti alla sorrentina

I received my new tableware from Italy!! My family shipped it for me and I’ve got it a few days ago. This is a story with pictures for another post. But now, happy with my cute Italian tableware, I am even more inspired to cook Italian meals. Look at this small terracotta pan… isn’t it [...]

Roast beef rib with cannellini purea and red onions cake

After a few weeks of absence I finally find the time for cooking and blogging again. What I had planned to be small changes in the house, have become much bigger projects than I had expected, and they have absorbed all my energies for a while.

Schiacciatina with potatoes

Fast and cheap it doesn’t mean in any way less tasty or less healthy. Well, this is probably the philosophy of Italian cooking, think at how tasty, nutritious, and cheap is a homemade dish of pasta… Potatoes, olive oil, flour and water, are the simple ingredients that allow you to easily prepare this beautiful appetizer [...]