Winter is my season.
Solid and silent, it is the opposite of appearance. It is a season that doesn't show off. Winter calls for substance.
To stay warm, we need jumpers, scarves, and gloves. For nourishment, we need warm dishes such as soups and broths. Meat and vegetable broths. Soups with pasta, rice, or bread. Minestrone with old…
Gluten-free
What is a tradition? A habit, a repeated behavior?
Be careful not to confuse ritual and tradition. Tradition has to do with the transmission of memories, knowledges, and patterns of behavior from one generation to the next. The food, cooking it, serving it, sharing it is part of the tradition of family and social heritage that we pass…
Today the choice of burgers is wide enough to satisfy even the most demanding palates. You can opt for a simple, gourmet, or vegetarian burger. But before sharing the recipe for a potato and lentil burger, let me remind you when there was only Swiss steak in Italy. Swiss and hamburger steaks
I remember well the minced…
Say terrine, and you think about a rustic but elegant table, a timeless country house, and a crackling fireplace. But, you know, you don't necessarily need to live in the countryside. If you love good food, you will find new inspiration in this preparation. There was a time when I often made terrines. They were…
Pickled vegetables, in this case, sweet and sour, are called Giardiniera in Italian. A very poetic name since it evokes the word garden. Giardiniera brings to mind the colors of the dish and the vegetables from the garden. It is an ancient method of preserving vegetables in season and eating them the next. I still remember when, at…
It is an old peasant recipe and one of the first street foods in Bolognese gastronomic history. They look a bit like Tuscan necci. And on the other hand, the chestnut trees are widespread throughout the Tuscan-Emilian-Romagna Apennines. It has created similar eating habits between Bologna, the lower and Apennine regions of Romagna, and the Tuscan…
I tried Pellegrino Artusi's tomato sauce and found it to be such a concentration of flavors that it looked like a bottle of passata from the previous year. Books to read, recipes to try
I have an incredible backlog of recipes to try, some for the first time.
And the same goes for the books I buy…
This recipe has been in my family's repertoire for generations.
It is an onion sauce that I have always appreciated, and I have a clear memory of preparing it. And it has a secret. The secret of Sara's onion sauce.
Grandma and I are in the kitchen.
When it's time, she makes a nod, and I open the…
The blackberries, with their unmistakable honeycomb shape, are dark and promise to be sweet and juicy.
As I ask for a basket, I am already thinking about the blackberry salad I will prepare for dinner. A wander among the august market stalls
August is one of my favorite months to shop for fruit and vegetables at the…
While scribbling notes that will become to-do lists, drafts of recipes, or thoughts that I "park" on paper ready for take-off like in a hangar, I reach out a distracted hand towards the glass of iced tea. The cool liquid trickles down my throat, generating a flood of memories. So pleasant that I put my pen…