Authentic Italian, commonplaces and bad imitations! Don’t believe it’s all real Italian! Maybe they’re just cheating you!!!!
One of the most typical and appreciated pasta recipes is “cacio e pepe”, that is to say cheese and pepper. it’s smooth and delicious! It looks simple but… Read more “AMAZING PASTA CACIO E PEPE (CHEESE AND PEPPER)”
Finally, after a very cold May, here in Italy summer’s arrived. It’s terribly hot in these days actually. What we really appreciate in this case, is tasty… Read more “VITELLO TONNATO, delicious cold veal in tuna sauce!”
Torta Pasqualina is a pot pie typically eaten in Easter period. Everybody has his own mix: somebody uses just spinaches, somebody puts also chards. Me, I prefer… Read more “An Easter recipe: delicious TORTA PASQUALINA!”
When I travel, anywhere in the world I find in supermarkets and delis panettone and pandoro sold all year long, as if they were a typical Italian… Read more “Commonplace: panettone and pandoro”
Hello my dear friends! Some times ago, I told you how to make your own perfect homemade pesto alla genovese, without the need of buying a ready one (sometimes you can also find some… Read more “HOW TO CORRECTLY PREPARE PASTA WITH PESTO ALLA GENOVESE”
Gnocchi, as I said about pasta, are a main dish and they are not a side. If you find, for instance, steak with gnocchi, get suspicious! They… Read more “Commonplaces: GNOCCHI, another tortured dish!”
Pesto alla genovese is a wonderful raw sauce. Its smell is amazing and it tastes great and soooo fresh! It’s quite easy to prepare, but proportions among ingredients must be respected, at… Read more “Delicious Pesto alla Genovese”
I was surfing the web and, with great pleasure, I found this recipe posted by the NYT which finally corresponded to the Italian one. I was almost… Read more “The recipe is fine, but please, have a look at the comments!”
Carbonara is one of the most mistreated recipes ever! Really! It really makes us Italians suffer a lot! First of all, here is a short list of… Read more “CARBONARA: commonplaces and big mistakes”
Gino D’Acampo is an Italian chef, famous in the UK where he often appears on TV shows, and he wrote several cookbooks. He tries to teach people… Read more “Gino D’Acampo too gets mad as I do when he sees how people mistreat Italian classics…”
