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Mustard of Bologna (mostarda Bolognese): the recipe

Mustard of Bologna is a typical local product. It is a mixed fruit jam used to prepare some local cakes. For example, it is the filling of pinza (the traditional ciambella cake of Bologna), sweet tortelli, and raviole, the peasant cookies made on St. Joseph's Day. Or, as in the case of Panone Bolognese and Christmas…

30 October 2024

Homemade tomato passata and the season of preserves

I clutch a bottle of homemade tomato puree and travel through time. Memories flow like the hands of a clock gone mad until the mechanism uncovers the right one. I remember summers in the countryside and the giant cauldrons where bottles of tomato passata cooked. Not everyone knows that Emilia-Romagna is a northern Italian region where preparing…

22 August 2024

Sweet and sour red onions in homemade fruit vinegar

Passata, sauces, jams, marmalades, syrups, juices, homemade canning fruit, and pickles. There were also giardiniera and sweet and sour red onions. And au naturel cherry tomatoes or long tomatoes close into jars with just a few basil leaves. Decades have passed since, season after season, production was mostly homemade. The home pantry was rich and well-stocked. Going to…

29 June 2022

Red Isabella grape jam recipe

Have you ever tasted Isabella grape? Isabella grape: the origin It is a cross between two grape varieties and was imported from the United States in the first half of the 19th century when the phylloxera epidemic, a disease that attacks vines, hit European vines hard. The Isabella grape, both for table and wine, is either red…

22 September 2021

Cherry and walnut jam and a day at the market

Cherry and walnut jam. One spring-summer fruit and one of the autumn. Fresh fruit and "shell fruit". Together they make a perfect pair. At the market. The fruits of the first spring month, the month of may, bring the promise of summer in their colors. Strawberries and cherries dye the market stalls red, anticipating the juicy freshness and bright…

18 June 2020

How to Make Homemade Old-Fashioned Preserves

New post from my kitchen pantry on how to make homemade old-fashioned preserves like an Italian nonna. But keeping in mind today's needs! If you're in the mood for jams and marmalades, even cooked-and-eaten, but a genuine, old-style taste, you might need a post with Grandma's advice. What I've learnt. There was a time when at home many…

30 May 2020

Preserve The Season: Homemade Apple Strudel Jam

My first recipe of 2019 is very simple. It's an in season homemade jam made with crunchy and scented apples where I added the flavor of the strudel cake. Who knows Apple Strudel? It has its roots in the 17th century and today is one national dishes of Austria. Very common in all Tyrol, you can find it…

10 January 2019

My melon and peach jam recipe. And a bunch of summer things

Late summer. A mid-season I love. I like the mixed feelings I associate with it. There is the melancholy for a past I can still smell and the energy-filled anticipation of new projects. The period between late August and September is magic, like its light. It is as if the air, all of a sudden, becomes solid, dyeing…

24 September 2018

Two recipes for strawberry jam and a bunch of memories

Spring. Blue skies and clouds that look like whipped cream. Blooming meadows, the buzzing of bees, and jars to fill with strawberry jam. At the beginning of the Spring, I start to find the first strawberries at the market. But only tardive strawberry is the best produce for fragrant homemade jam jars. Indeed early produce is more expensive, less tasty,…

27 October 2017

Pink Grapefruit And Kiwi Chutney. Bittersweet Recipe

Pink grapefruit and kiwi chutney is fragrant and colorful. It is a perfect complement to a plate of assorted cheeses in the evening, or for lunch or aperitivo. But it's Excellent to enjoy also with a cold meat dish. If you are planning to organize a informal lunch, aperitif or dinner, prepare an assorted chopping…