Chickpea soup with rucola and my new cookbook!
My second cookbook “Festa Italiana” is published! Read all about it and enjoy a colorful bowl of chickpea soup to celebrate!
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Category: Soups
Creamy Spinach “Vellutata” soup
A creamy vegetable soup which can be made year round with a wide range of vegetables including spinach, squash, asparagus and mushrooms. Easy, quick and delicious Continue reading Creamy Spinach “Vellutata” soup
pasta e fagioli for pasta lovers
Italians have been bean eaters for thousand of years. Greeks ate lentils. Romans consumed garbanzo beans and black-eyed peas daily. Common beans arrived in Italy from America with Colombo and returned to America with Italian emigrants and their “pasta fazool”. There are a million versions of “pasta e fagioli”, pasta with beans. The quality of the beans really is important: use beans which are fresh … Continue reading pasta e fagioli for pasta lovers
black-rice and spelt minestrone
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 the combination of three elements: beans, vegetables and grains cooked in a vegetable or meat stock. In the past, the main ingredients were slow cooked … Continue reading black-rice and spelt minestrone
easy chicken and 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 except the middle of the summer. When I make fresh pasta , I always have enough left over dough for some noodles. I generally make tagliolini, i.e. very narrow fettuccine. When they are … Continue reading easy chicken and noodle soup
