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
- pasta bake with sausages and lentils
- truffle carbonara
Rice, polenta and grains
- butternut squash and orange risotto
- 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
- chick pea (garbanzo) soup with arugula
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
- Roast sausages with white cannellini beans and rainbow chard
- how to make fresh Umbrian sausage
- pork loin braised in milk and wine
- 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
- artichokes, braised alla Romana
- artichoke salad with salt boiled lemons
- zucchini in carpaccio
- zucchini, ricotta, mint sformato
- mushrooms trifolati
- balsamic peppers
- sweet pepper involtini
- 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
- vegetable gratin with rosemary and pecorino
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
- licorice gelato
- olive oil and wine ciambelline cookies
- Umbrian Christmas Zuccherini cookies
- spiced almond and fig biscotti
- 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
- cauciuni, fried sweet ravioli 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
- candied citron 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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