Category Archives: Soups
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
pasta e fagioli for pasta lovers
Italians have always been bean eaters. The bean is cheap protein after all. Greeks ate lentils. Romans consumed garbanzo beans and black-eyed peas daily. Commons beans arrived in Italy from America with Colombo and returned to America with Italian emigrants … Continue reading
minestrone con riso proibito e farro
MINESTRONE WITH FORBIDDEN RICE AND FARRO. Minestrone is a most democratic recipe, every region, town or family has their own which they will obviously consider as the best. Regardless of the many variations however, a good minestrone is based on … Continue reading
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TAGLIOLINI IN BRODO, that is ITALIAN NOODLE SOUP. This is comfort food for those brutal winter days when you need to re-warm your soul. To be honest, I love it so much that I can eat it throughout the year … Continue reading
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farro and lentil soup
ZUPPA DI LENTICCHIE E FARRO. Castelluccio di Norcia, in the South-East of Umbria is a tiny village located on a lonely outcrop at the centre of one of the most spectacular areas of Central Italy, the Piano Grande . The … Continue reading
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