All Entries in the "Italian Cuisine - Food, recipes and more" Category
Lentils with zampone
Lentils are the most important part of an italian New Years dinner. Eating lentils will bring you a prosperous coming year. And we all like that, don’t we? Usually served with a Zampone (pig’s feet) or a sausage. Or both.
Serving 4:
* 400 g lentils
* 1 celery
* 1 garlic clove
* extra virgin olive oil
* salt
Preparation
Chop [...]
Christmas gift suggetsion – a food basket
Still don’t know what to buy your loved one(s) for Christmas? How about a food basket. In Italy food baskets have always been a popular Christmas gift. Een in bad times employees receive at least a panettone and a bottle of spumante to take home on Christmas eve.
You can put almost anything inside, but remember [...]
Christmas turkey
In Italy, turkey is eaten at Christmas, not in the end of November. Here is a good recipe, which can be served with roasted potatoes on the side.
Ingredients
* 1 turkey around 2 kilos
* 500 grams of salsiccia
* 3 apples
* 500 g of pitted prunes
* 500 grams of dried chestnuts
* 1/2 celery
* 1 carrot
* 1 cup [...]
Lasagna for Christmas
On December 24 no one eats meat in Italy. Fish is common but also vegetarian food, and therefor today we are going to make a lasagna without meat – Lasagna in bianco. Of course this delicious “pasta al forno” is eaten the whole year around, but on the 24th it’s almost mandatory.
Ingredients, serving 4:
* 50 [...]
Wine and olive oil on line
Oil and wine, two of the most prestigious and typical products of the Florentine countryside, are in focus in a new initiative from the Florence Chamber of Commerce.
They are launching two new web sites to guide food and wine lovers visiting Tuscany and Florence : www.florencewine.it and www.florenceoliveoil.it.
The idea is to create an information tool [...]
Il Panettone – Italian Christmas cake
As Christmas is approaching, we are this week going to make a must on the Italian Christmas table -the Panettone! Originated from Milan, it is now spread all over the peninsula and now Christmas is complete without it.
You will need a baking machine for this, and remember not t have your kitchen to cold, then [...]
How to avoid garlic breath
Many of our Italian recipes contains garlic, as you might have seen. But maybe not so much as one might think. Pellegrino Artusi says, it’s healthy: “The ancient Egyptians prized garlic as a god, perchance because they had discovered its qualities as a medicine. Indeed, it is said that it provides relief to those who [...]
Artusi – founder of the Italian kitchen
Rome was not built in a day, but the Italian kitchen was made by one man – Pellegrino Artusi (1820–1911). He was the author of the famous Italian cookbook “La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiare bene” (The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well).
Artusi was born in Forlimpopoli, a town near [...]
Saltimbocca alla romana
This week, we are back in the Italian capital, Rome, to do a local “secondo” or main dish – the Saltimbocca alla Romana. A Roman favorite, and highly appreciated all over Italy. Saltimbocca is short for salta in bocca—hoops-in-the- mouth—a flavourful dish and easy to make.
Ingredients, serving 4:
8 veal cutlets ½ kilo
8 slices of prosciutto [...]
Dead Roast Steak
As this weeks dish we will do Arrosto Morto – Dead Roast Steak – from the Veneto region in northeast Italy. Dead Roast Steak isn’t as bad as it sounds, it really means a dry heat pot roast. This is a easy and quickly prepared dish, so you get lots of time over for [...]
