Category Archives: Cooking Tips and Ingredients
asparagus 101
With all the running around, worries and excitement about the new house I forgot to post my April article in The American in Italia magazine featuring another of my favorite recipes, Parmesan and asparagus eggs. Please remember that if you … Continue reading
Filed under Appetizers, Cooking Tips and Ingredients, Fresh Pasta, Recipes, Spring, Vegetables
pasta for beginners
Pasta is such a convenient food and it’s made in a million ways all over the planet. Accordingly, it will taste everything from boring, to vibrant, from disgusting to heavenly. Don’t believe anybody who tells you they don’t like pasta. … Continue reading
Filed under Cooking Tips and Ingredients, Dried Pasta, Fresh Pasta, Recipes, Sauces, Video
the 5th taste
Did you ever ask yourself why some Italian foods have become universally accepted? Nowadays pizza, tomato sauce, lasagne, cured olives, prosciutto can be found in the most unsuspected corners of the globe. There are many historic and cultural reasons for … Continue reading
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the antimafia and other very good pasta
“GO BUY ME A KILO PASTA, WILL YOU?????” This Italy here is a crazy country and always will be, but important priorities are respected. A good bowl of pasta is hardly ever refused. So easy, so good, so comforting. It’s … Continue reading
Filed under Cooking Tips and Ingredients, Dried Pasta, Life in Umbria, Pasta, Recipes
I’m going eggplant
Eggplant, aubergine, has been around the Mediterranean for more than 500 years. No wonder this luxurious vegetable of Indian origin became a staple of Sicilian cooking. In a land too dry and warm to support large-scale cattle breeding, meat was … Continue reading
Filed under Cooking Tips and Ingredients, Recipes, Summer, Vegetables, Video
