This quintessential Italian braised pork loin (maiale al latte) will become one of your go-to recipes for a dinner party. Cooked in a mixture of wine, herbs and milk is light and creamy at the same time, a perfect combination!
Homemade licorice gelato recipe using milk and cream infused with pure licorice, a unique and very intense flavor.
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.
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
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)
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
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
