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…

ByMonica28 March 20240Comments

COURSES INGREDIENTS Main Course OCCASIONS RECIPES Seafood Sunday Lunch

Baby octopus stew and chickpea polenta. Romagna style

I am walking through the streets of the Quadrilatero , which, in Bologna, has been a market area since the Middle Ages. I stop to look at the fish displayed on the counters of a fish market, and following an impulse, I buy some baby octopus. With the bag in my hand and in…

ByMonica21 February 20230Comments

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Bruciatini and radicchio. A recipe from cucina povera of Romagna

Mixed field radicchio, pork belly, and wine vinegar are the few ingredients needed to make Bruciatini, one of the many dishes of the Romagna cucina povera tradition. Kitchen note: mixed field radicchio, green and red, is a wild, uncultivated variety. Today farmers also grow this radicchio for its flavor and crispness. Bruciatini and cucina povera of Emilia-Romagna…

ByMonica3 February 20230Comments

Le salsicce del signor Giovanni, una pentola e tre ingredienti

COURSES INGREDIENTS Main Course Meat RECIPES

The sausages of Mr. Giovanni, one pot and three ingredients

Italian fresh sausages, peppers, and potatoes. These are the main ingredients of the sausage dish that Giovanni prepared. It is a simple dish of the Romagna peasant tradition that will win you over. As I often say, simple food is ordinary in a comforting way. Mr. Giovanni's sausages Giovanni and his wife Laura are lifelong friends of my parents. She…

ByMonica12 September 20220Comments

COURSES Main Course OCCASIONS RECIPES Sunday Lunch

Cabbage flan with Italian cotechino

This cabbage flan is a dish of substance that does not lack elegance. Rustic but not overdone, it is the right pact to welcome winter. And you, are you more a flan or a soufflé person? Some differences Flan and sformato are the same thing. Flan is the French word used worldwide, while the second is the Italian…

ByMonica28 December 20210Comments

COURSES INGREDIENTS Main Course Meat OCCASIONS RECIPES Sunday Lunch

Meat and potato pie. A recipe from European cuisine

Meat and potato puree pie has British origins and is the right recipe to talk about European cuisine. European cuisine Italians and French have created the basis of modern and contemporary cuisine in Europe and Western society. Perhaps this is the reason we sometimes forget that Italian cuisine is also contaminated. Here I would like to reflect…

ByMonica12 October 20210Comments

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Baked Stuffed Red Onions And The Meaning Of the Italian q.b.

Baked red onions is a vegetarian recipe where you need stuff them q.b. (to taste). Do you know the meaning of the Italian expression q.b. (or qb)? The expression is an abbreviation for quanto basta (quantum satis) and is used in both medical and cooking recipes. In both cases it indicates a quantity. q.b. in the kitchen.…

ByMonica27 April 20210Comments

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Artichoke Stew With Potatoes And February Cuisine

In February, the light starts to change. The days are getting longer, but it is better not to be hasty in expectations. The soul of February is wintry and and can reserve surprises. This month's cooking is still typical of the season: long cooking, satisfying baked pasta, stews and roasts, perhaps an artichoke stew like this one. And…

ByMonica8 February 20210Comments

COURSES Eggs Gluten-free INGREDIENTS Main Course RECIPES

Eggs and Tomato (Fake Tripe in Tomato Sauce)

Is the tripe in it? No. And not a single piece, no matter how tiny, of meat. It's a vegetarian dish that deliberately resembles tripe in appearance. Hence the name. Frittata trippata or Eggs in Tripe The dish name combines the Italian word frittata and the adjective trippata from trippa…

ByMonica27 July 20200Comments

COURSES Eggs INGREDIENTS Main Course RECIPES

Italian cheese crespelle with broad beans, peas and asparagus salad

I love all egg dishes, don't you? If I am in a hurry, I choose eggs as the main ingredient for a quick and tasty recipe. In addition, in the blink of an eye, they become crespelle and frittata to which you can add or mix other ingredients to make exquisitely simple dishes. And seasonal, like cheese crespelle…

ByMonica6 June 20200Comments