Appetizers, Bread, Pizza and Focaccia

• zucchini, mint and parmesan flan
• warm bean and tomato salad
• cold wild fennel and cucumber soup
• fried artichokes
• braised artichokes alla Romana
• soft scrambled eggs with asparagus
• salt-boiled lemons and artichoke salad
• spring onion frittata
• home-made pizza
• slow dough focaccia
• Easter cheese bread (Umbria’s Torta di Pasqua)
• Bucciotto, Easter cheese bread doll
• fried Sicilian calzoni stuffed with curly endive
• torta al testo flatbread
• gluten free savory cauliflower crostata
• gluten free bruschetta bread
• hot-water pastry spinach pie
• chick pea (garbanzo) farinata with caramelized onions and rosemary

Homemade Pasta

• how to make pasta dough: ingredients
• food processor pasta dough
• gluten free pasta dough
• how to cook and sauce your pasta (video)
• sauce like in Italy (no swimming!)
• paglia e fieno pappardelle with Velvet Pioppini mushrooms
• maltagliati
• classic stringozzi (Umbrian pici)
• green stringozzi with roasted squash and ricotta
• “priest chokers” made with farro flour
• ravioli with pears, pecorino and balsamic vinegar (or honey)
• green ravioli with zucchini, lemon butter and honey
• mezzelune filled with porchetta in juniper and wild fennel butter
• mushroom and truffle ravioli
• gluten free ravioli
• cappelletti made with ancient grain flour
• classic lasagna with ragù
• summer lasagna with zucchini
• creamy pumpkin lasagna
• meat and spinach cannelloni
• gluten-free spinach and ricotta pancake cannelloni
• potato gnocchi
• homemade orecchiette in a saffron zucchini sauce

Sauces for fresh or dried pasta

• seven principles to making an easy pasta with vegetables
• basic tomato sauce
• fresh tomato sauce
• no sauce?
• how to buy very good pasta
• ragu’
• norcina cream sauce
• quick bechamel sauce
• stringozzi all’amatriciana
• tagliolini with almond pesto and fava beans
• fettuccine in lemon sauce
• spaghetti with wild asparagus
• tortiglioni with puttanesca sauce
• anelletti pasta baked with eggplants
• no-cook pasta sauce with tuna and cherry tomatoes
• lumache pasta with porcini and peppers
• penne with broccolo romanesco
• porcini mushrooms sauce with lots of red wine
• spaghetti with salmon and brandy
• classic white pasta bake with peas and ham

Rice, polenta and grains

• vegetarian risotto with grilled radicchio
• red wine risotto
• risotto with asparagus and pancetta
• polenta with a sausage ragù
• Neapolitan sartù rice casserole
• summer farro salad
• farrotto (video)

Soups

• cold wild-fennel and cucumber soup
• Italian noodle soup
• lentil and farro soup
• minestrone with black rice and farro
• pasta e fagioli for pasta lovers
• spinach and pasta soup

Meat dishes

• Eufrasia’s stuffed pork (or beef) rolls with bay leaves
• saltimbocca in Vinsanto demi-glaze
• pork saltimbocca with grapes
• pork cotolette
• pork mini-meatballs
• sausage braised with fresh fennel and raisins
• how to make fresh Umbrian sausage
• beef straccetti with asparagus and spring onions
• “rested”  thyme and garlic roast beef
• “falsomagro” stuffed roast beef
• veal in tuna sauce
• Tuscan beef and black pepper stew
• Umbrian style light pot roast (beef)
• duck breast in a rosemary, balsamic and citrus-marinade
• baked spinach, fennel and polenta meatballs
• balsamic and sage chicken scaloppine
• Umbrian style chicken alla cacciatora
• quick terrine a l’Italienne
• broccoli meatloaf
• porchetta style stuffed turkey roast

Vegetables and side dishes

• how to fry eggplants (video)
• eggplant Parmesan
• roasted eggplant dip
• grilled lemon-and-garlic marinated eggplants
• lazy basil eggplant sformato
• roasted eggplants alla marinara
• artichoke sformato
• zucchini in carpaccio
• mushrooms trifolati
• balsamic peppers
• bandiera vegetable stir fry
• spring friggitelli peppers in tomato sauce
• tomato and bread panzanella salad
• peas and ham
• cime di rapa
• potato gateau
• potatoes in a salt crust
• roasted rosemary mushroom parcels

Desserts

• panna cotta
• classic coffee tiramisu
• tiramisu with berries (berry-misu)
• tiramisu with spiced white peaches
• tiramisu with mulled pears (pear-amisu)
• classic crostata jam tart
• chocolate and ricotta crostata with homemade candied orange
• farro crostata
• polenta and olive oil fruitcake (brustengolo)
• wholegrain fruit tart
• Italian style Chantilly cream
• ricotta mousse 
• chestnut and mascarpone cream
• limoncello melon pannacotta
• limoncello profiteroles
• brown sugar steamed custard
• orange-scented custard with flambé berries
• salted almond praline gelato
• chocolate hazelnut bacio gelato
• olive oil and wine ciambelline cookies
• hazelnut biscotti
• baci di dama cookies
• home-made ladyfingers
• pears poached in Vin Santo
• ginger-apple gluten free cake
• fiance cake (Umbrian Ciaramicola)
• sour-cherry braided brioche
• rose blossom cake
• apple and olive oil strudel
• Medieval sweet bread (Torcolo di San Costanzo)
• Easter Dove sweet bread (colomba)
• Sicilian cassata
• the big kicks (cauciuni, fried sweets from Abruzzo) (video)

Preserves and Infusions

• spicy olive oil
• home-made vanilla extract
• pickled watermelon rind
• sweet pickled squash
• homemade limoncello
• naked lemon jam
• candied orange peel
• spiced persimmon and orange jam
• wild rose liquer
• Giulia’s elderflower jelly
• spiced grape jelly
• chunky Italian-style sweet orange marmalade
• elderberry jelly (video)

Cooking Tips and Ingredients

• a secret to better pizza
• how to make coffee in an Italian moka pot
• how to select a very good pasta
• Umami in the Italian cuisine
• balsamic vinegar of Modena
• how to make delicious breadcrumbs
• ministry of protection of mistreated foods

Umbrian Experiences

• if only she knew how difficult…
• it’s finally my turn: I own a castle and I will even have an office
• an enchanted house: Palazzo Bourbon di Sorbello in Perugia
• golden hands (Deruta’s ceramics)
• rainbow
• market treasures (video)
• good bye leaves
• Eurochocolate
• cooking on a sunny day
• women’s hands making magic
• summer
• calendimaggio
• I’am above the clouds
• carnevale!
• twenty four thousand sausages

My Life

• How I got to be on TV
• Happy Easter Monday
• feeling happy
• AUGURI!
• my girlfriends
• notte di luna calante
• mamma
• roots
• Happy Easter chicks
• Happy New Year from the land of smiles
• the alchemist
• learning the basics
• festa
• the beginning

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