Apple bread cake recipe and two years of blog

Christmas is just a few days away, and I am at my desk with a cup of coffee about to write a recipe for one of my childhood apple bread cakes. This bread cake is rich in taste and ingredients like apples, walnuts, almonds, and spices. It will be the last post of the year, after two…

ByMonica22 December 20200Comments

COURSES INGREDIENTS Main Course Meat OCCASIONS RECIPES Sunday Lunch

Chicken With Chestnut Stuffing And About Special Roasts

Many people love roast chicken. It is a recipe that makes you think of Sunday lunches and first dinners prepared for friends. Stuffed chicken, roast in the oven, is equally appreciated but, perhaps, it doesn't appear so often on our table. I also place it among the special roasts, perhaps as a family habit. Sunday lunch.…

ByMonica19 November 20200Comments

Aperitivo COURSES INGREDIENTS Main Course Meat OCCASIONS RECIPES

Club Sandwich: history and recipe

I love making sandwiches where good bread and excellent ingredients create something unique. Although, you know, not all the sandwiches have a story like the Club Sandwich. Club Sandwich recipe. The original recipe calls for: toast, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and chicken or turkey. Some people add crispy bacon and other sauces. For this sandwich, you can use leftover…

ByMonica7 November 20200Comments

Bologna Food Christmas COURSES Desserts OCCASIONS RECIPES Sunday Lunch

Tagliatelle cake or Ricciolina cake: a traditional dessert from Emilia-Romagna

Pellegrino Artusi, the gastronome who wrote the first collection of Italian recipes on a national scale, dedicates two recipes to Torta Ricciolina or Torta di Tagliatelle (although the more correct term would be Torta di Tagliatelline, since tagliolini are used instead of egg tagliatelle). There are several variations of this dessert, and more than one city…

ByMonica17 October 20200Comments

Aperitivo Cheese Christmas COURSES INGREDIENTS Legumes Meat OCCASIONS RECIPES Savoury Cakes

Savory Lentil Pie With Cooked Ham And Cheese

genius recipe for savory pie lovers!

ByMonica28 December 20190Comments

Aperitivo Appetizers Christmas COURSES Gluten-free INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES Salads and Sides Sunday Lunch

Russian Salad: An Italian Timeless Classic Side Recipe

It's a sumptuous side dish. Maybe for that reason many people believe that Russian salad, the Italian version of a great European recipe, is a difficult dish to make. What do you think about reading method before discarding the idea? Sides. In cooking, the word side usually means a dish of vegetables or legumes that accompany the main…

ByMonica23 December 20190Comments

Aperitivo Appetizers Cheese Christmas COURSES Eggs INGREDIENTS Meat OCCASIONS RECIPES

From The 1970s: Cheese and Salami Rolls With Boiled Eggs

This dish is cheap, quick and easy to make. And vintage. It comes straight from the 1970s. A few ingredients and an impeccable presentation. That's all you need for a dish that is the best of Italian cuisine. Do you know La Cucina Italiana? I am not referring to the heritage of recipes that have made Italian…

ByMonica19 December 20190Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Chocolate Drinks Gluten-free INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix (Gluten Free Recipe)

In season? Hot chocolate mix! Here's something that, in winter, can't miss in my kitchen pantry. The hot chocolate mix seems to be a family traditions. Among the pages of an old family cookbook, where my grandmother Sara used to write her recipes, I found her recipe for homemade hot chocolate mix. It isn't that. What…

ByMonica17 December 20190Comments

Bologna Food Cakes and Cookies Christmas COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

Certosino cake: the traditional Christmas sweet of Bologna

Certosino, or Spiced Bread (Pan Speziale), is a typical sweet of the Bolognese Christmas tradition The recipe, of medieval origin, was reworked by the Carthusian (Certosini) monks of Bologna, from whom the cake takes its name and has passed down to us. It is incredible that the recipe I am still cooking dates back to 1300.…

ByMonica14 December 20190Comments

Cakes and Cookies Christmas COURSES Eggs INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

Santa Lucia cookies with Ovis Mollis shortcrust pastry

Santa Lucia cookies are among my favorites. I call these biscuits "of Santa Lucia" because they are the ones we made at home to celebrate the feast. Sometimes the kind of biscuit was different. But the tradition of Santa Lucia biscuits, where I was born and raised, calls for shortcrust pastry. The tradition of Saint Lucia. The celebration of…

ByMonica12 December 20190Comments