light vegetarian risotto with grilled radicchio
An easy risotto recipe, perfect for winter. Carnaroli rice, slowly cooked in vegetable broth, with diced Asiago cheese, grilled radicchio, white wine, butter, Parmesan and parsley.
Category: Spring
mezzelune pasta filled with “porchetta” pork roast in fennel juniper butter
Do you also have the feeling that spring is never coming? I start to be spring-obsessed around the first 10 days of March. By then, I am so ready with winter that I can’t take another grey day. Somewhat I forget that we will have to endure at least one more month of bad…… Continue reading mezzelune pasta filled with “porchetta” pork roast in fennel juniper butter
Umbrian-style braised sausage with fresh fennel (and my travels)
Hi dear friends, how are you? I hope spring is treating you well wherever you happen to be. Spring is in full swing here in Umbria and more gorgeous than ever. As for myself, these are the first quiet days after half a year of excitement and travels. I can hardly believe we were in…… Continue reading Umbrian-style braised sausage with fresh fennel (and my travels)
Bucciotto, a cheese-bread doll for Easter
Easter in Umbria is not for those with a delicate constitution. A cheese-egg-meat-wine-chocolate binge starts at 9 am on Easter Sunday with breakfast and ends into a food induced coma sometime at 5 pm. By then, some of the aunties are passing around giant mounds of broken chocolate eggs and slices of colomba just in…… Continue reading Bucciotto, a cheese-bread doll for Easter
Torcolo di San Costanzo, a medieval sweet bread from Umbria
My hometown Perugia is well protected from evil. We have 3 patron Saints to look out for us: San Lorenzo, Sant’Ercolano and San Costanzo. Nationwide, San Lorenzo is the most popular. One of the Seven Deacons of Rome, and therefore among the first to have been subjected to martyrdom, he is the patron of over…… Continue reading Torcolo di San Costanzo, a medieval sweet bread from Umbria
Torta di Pasqua, an Umbrian Easter bread
When I was a child in the late 1960s many homes, including the one of my Umbrian grandmother, didn’t have an oven and took their bread to the bakery for cooking. Easter was an especially busy time, with women preparing Torta di Pasqua, a leavened cheese bread traditionally served for our hearty Easter breakfast. In…… Continue reading Torta di Pasqua, an Umbrian Easter bread
mushroom and truffle ravioli
Now it’s time to start writing about food again. This is one of those recipe I make during cooking classes when we want to explore how to transform simple ingredients into a sumptuous meal. Admittedly truffle is not “simple” but you might still have a jar from your holidays in Umbria or Tuscany. If not, omit and the results will be delightful nevertheless.
