Obviously, Italian cooking has been around literally for centuries, and that’s why today’s delectable Italian dishes are so popular and so hard to turn down! It’s hard to pin down just one or two origins of Italian cooking, but there are some dishes, like polenta, that we know have been around for centuries, and really [...]
Fresh ingredients
Cooking Italian recipes depends upon one basic fact: the freshness of the ingredients. No processed foods are used in the creation of these delightful, elegant, yet deceptively simple meals.
Olive oil and garlic
Staples of an Italian kitchen are olio d’oliva (olive oil) and aglio (garlic). Always choose extra virgin olive oil and fresh garlic. You [...]
Traditional Italian Minestrone Soup
½ lb dried cranberry beans
2 ½ quarts of water
½ lb fresh green beans, broken into halves
3 oz diced salt pork
½ lb peeled and diced potatoes
1 ½ Tbs extra virgin olive oil
½ lb peeled and diced onions
12 oz can diced tomatoes, or 1 cup peeled and diced fresh ripe tomatoes
2 mashed cloves of [...]
Turn on any food show today and you’ll find a huge assortment of ethnic offerings. From Chinese and other Asian cuisines to French, German and even British cooking, every corner of the globe where people put food to fire is represented. Most of these are relative newcomers to the global food scene, whereas Italian food [...]
This is one of the quickest Italian pasta recipes and, as it is made with tomatoes and eggplants only, is very low on fats content!
It comes from my grandmother’s cookbook and I remember that all of my family was really happy when we saw this incredible pasta for lunch or for dinner.
It’s great even if [...]
When it comes to Italian cooking I love to use the word rustic quite a bit. This Italian lamb stew is just that, rustic. Hearty and delicious, you’ll have no problem filling your stomach with this one.
Just get a large pot and place it over the wood burning fireplace in your kitchen and get ready [...]
Let’s talk pizza! Here’s one of my best free Italian recipes, that of pizza Margherita, which is the easiest of pizzas. Using this recipe as a base, you can add whatever you want on it!
What you need (1 serving):
125 g 00 flour
1 teaspoon brewer’s yeast
1 mozzarella
canned tomatoesor tomato sauce (NO ketchup!)
water
salt
sugar
extra virgin olive oil
basil
Let’s do [...]
There is a pleasure that has never known, and will never do, a decline or a negative trend: the pleasure for good food and good drinks.
Over the centuries men tried to improve their aliments sometimes reaching extremely high levels. For the most part of history, and most of the people, food was only something necessary [...]
So you’ve decided you’re going to start doing some more Italian cooking. You’ve found a great database of Italian recipes and you’re excited about wading into the world of pasta, pesto and parmagiana.
It would be helpful to have on hand some staple ingredients that are found in a lot of Italian cooking. That way, you’ll [...]