Category Archives: All Seasons
cappelletti pasta with kamut
I have been keeping this post for one of those rare days when I have enough time in my hands. I wanted quiet and concentration to explain everything in sufficient detail. To tell you that cappelletti, the Umbrian diminuitive version … Continue reading
Filed under Fall, Fresh Pasta, Recipes, Winter
Grazia’s chantilly cream
I must be the only woman on the Western hemisphere who is not on a diet after the holidays. It can’t be healthy to be on a diet in the dead of the winter. Besides – with all my food … Continue reading
Filed under All Seasons, Desserts, Recipes
baked cardoons
PARMIGIANA DI CARDI. This is a recipe which smells intensely of Christmas to me. It reminds me of my mum, perennially standing in her tiny kitchen, creating complicated wonders. Oddly, she hardly made a sound while cooking for a large … Continue reading
Filed under Appetizers, Recipes, Vegetables, Winter
chestnut and mascarpone cream
October is an incredibly generous month in Umbria. The weather is still mellow and sunny, the winds have cleared up the sky to porcelain blue, we’re counting the days to olive harvest. This will be the first year we’ll have … Continue reading
spinach and pasta soup
This is a healthy, refreshing and quite good-looking soup. It’s one of my desperation recipes, meaning that I make it when desperately needing a nutritious and light meal in hardly any time. I often keep a bag of pre-washed spinach … Continue reading
