Category Archives: All Seasons
“falsomagro” stuffed roast beef
This is another recipe of the clever Italian mammas of the past. It’s called falsomagro or farsumagru a term referring to stuffed lean meat. The stuffing was not meant to create fancy food. It was a way to stretch portions … Continue reading
Filed under All Seasons, Meat Dishes, Recipes
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
