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Homemade purple potato gnocchi
Homemade purple potato gnocchi (eggless)
The intense chirping of cicadas underscores the heat. How long has it been since the last recipe I shared on the blog? It's been a few months. As I knead the purple potato gnocchi dough, I can't help but think how quickly these intense past few months have passed. Now I will tell you the reason for this long…
27 July 2024
Ricotta tortelloni of Bologna recipe
Parsley and ricotta tortelloni. Recipe of Bologna
This is the recipe for ricotta tortelloni, a dish deeply rooted in the culinary tradition of Bologna and the surrounding area.  While tortellini is the holiday dish, ricotta tortelloni, like cappelletti romagnoli with cheese, respected the Catholic Church's precepts of a meatless menu on the days of Eve and Lent. The recipe has been registered…
20 May 2024
Rice bomb (bomba di riso), recipe from Emilia-Romagna
Rice bomb (bomba di riso), recipe from Emilia-Romagna
The rice bomb is a flan. And flan, in Italian sformato, is the name we used to call it at home. It must be said, however, that it is an Emilian rather than a Romagna dish. In fact, each Emilian province has its own version of the recipe. You can find the bomb bolognese, the one from…
28 March 2024
Artichoke lasagne
Artichoke lasagne. And time to cook
Artichoke lasagne belongs to the long list of dishes that have graced my family's Sunday lunch and a variety of other occasions such as, for example, Easter lunch or Easter Monday, above all, if it fell early, that is, in March, like this year. Grandma used to execute the recipe in her own way, cooking the…
21 March 2024
Homemade dried porcini mushrooms pasta dough
Homemade dried porcini mushrooms pasta dough
I associate the memory of the first taste of some foods among the keenest gastronomic moments of my life. For example, with oysters, it was a disaster. They were exceptionally high in quality and fresh, but my palate and stomach expressed a different opinion. The experience with porcini mushrooms was of the opposite sign. I was with…
6 November 2023
Pumpkin cappellacci from Ferrara
From Ferrara. Pumpkin cappellacci pasta
I often tell you stories and tastes of the Via Emilia, the road of Roman origin that runs through Emilia-Romagna from Piacenza to Rimini. Anyway you should know that my region also has another main highway, less busy and quieter but just as significant, the Po River.   Significant Italian gastronomes and writers have written about the…
26 October 2023
Ingannapreti con salsa affumicata al pomodoro e mascarpone
Sorpresine with smoky tomato and mascarpone sauce
Sorpresine (little surprises), bugie (lies), or inganna-preti (deceive-the-priests) are some names to indicate the same kind of pasta shape that looks like it should be a filled pasta, but forget the filling because it is without the filling. In fact, sorpresine are little squares of pasta dough folded twice to resemble tortellini or cappelletti without the…
11 October 2023
Tortelli di tonno
Tuna tortelli with tasty olives sauce
I kept a memory related to food for almost every vacation I did. In some cases, it is connected to the purchase, in others to the preparation, or, finally, to the tasting. Recently, I asked my husband to share three-holiday food memories, excluding Sunday and Christmas lunches. Then I, too, answered the same question. We found…
3 August 2023
Creamy zucchini and basil lasagna
Creamy zucchini and basil lasagna
I remember the taste of that creamy zucchini and basil lasagna from when I was a child. Grandma created this dish from just a few eggs of pasta dough and zucchini from the garden, which she cooked slowly with lots of basil until they were almost mushy. It is a summer and vegetarian version of lasagna.…
28 June 2023
Tortelli di erbetta
Tortelli di erbetta recipe from Parma to celebrate St. John
This is a traditional recipe from the city of Parma and the small towns surrounding it. Tortelli di erbetta features delicate fresh pasta rectangles filled with ricotta and sweet chard. On the evening of June 23, the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist in Italy, people in and around Parma celebrate by dining…
23 June 2023

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