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Pasta and beans: recipe from Emilia-Romagna

Pasta and Beans are one of the most well-known recipes from Italy’s rural culinary tradition. It dates back to a time when meals and ingredients followed the rhythm of the seasons. From north to south, Italy is full of soups and vegetable creams, each one delicious and worth trying. I have no idea how many…

5 November 2019

Fresh Fava Beans and Semolina Minestra

It's Spring when air and light are vivid, days are longer, trees wear gems and buds, flowers start to chit-chat form flowerbeds and balconies. To me is spring when I start to shell fresh fava beans and peas watching Tv. It's a habit I have since I was a child when I helped my grandma while we…

24 April 2019

Shortcut Baked Vegetable Sausage Meatballs In White

I grew up on bread and meatballs. Okay, not only. But meatballs are something I ate and eat often. I like them all: made with meat, rice, vegetable. Fried, cooked in the pan or in broth, baked. With or without tomato sauce. Sausage meatballs I am a serial meatball eater and maker. Unfortunately, there is no memory for meatball…

20 March 2019

Savory pea pie. Spring recipe

The calendar lists March as one of the winter months, but in Italy, there is a saying that it is crazy. Sometimes it shows up with a trousseau of rain and umbrellas. Frequently, it restores winter's rigor in the blink of an eye. But it also happens to show up disguised as spring. These days of mild…

5 March 2019

Lentil paté: creamy, tasty and vegan

Lentil paté introduces a topic that I find very interesting. The comparison of easy and complex recipes. The recipes of the first type are within everyone's reach and perfect for workdays. They are the preparations where you go by eye and change the taste here and there. Then what was the original flavor? Who knows! Simple does not mean…

30 December 2017

Adzuki beans and chocolate cream recipe. Spreadable and vegan

What do you think about making sweet, spreadable adzuki beans and chocolate cream? I found it satisfying, light, and tasty, and I offer you my version. Like almost all legumes, beans have a flavor that naturally tends toward sweet and a pasty texture that is perfect for making creams, sweet and savory, smooth and spreadable. Beans, water,…

27 October 2017

Meatloaf “alla Genovese”: A Summer Vegetarian Recipe

Although its name may suggest a roll of meat, meatloaf alla Genovese is a completely vegetarian dish. This recipe is by my friend Veronica, who was born in Genova (the capital of the Liguria region), but like me, she has lived in Bologna for many years. Meatloaf "alla Genovese". Also known as Ligurian meatloaf, meatloaf alla Genovese recipe is widespread not…

1 May 2017