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Pasta alla Norma is a seasonal, Sicilian dish made with fried eggplants, a rich tomato sauce, fresh basil leaves and a dusting of ricotta salata.
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Jun 21CommentShare
A mead and peach cake to celebrate Midsummer, the days of light, abundance and harvest.
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Jun 18CommentShare
Who doesn’t love a big bowl of homemade pasta? Isn’t it the best way to welcome the new week? It is even better if it is paired with a splendid local w…
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Jun 14CommentShare
We could call these buttery crescents Italian croissants, but you’ll realize how different they are from the first bite.
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Jun 11CommentShare
Make a slow-roasted tomato and stracciatella crostone and a beetroot and walnut carpaccio and pair them with a cold rosé for an Italian inspired aperit…
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Jun 7CommentShare
A letter with 10 recipes to cook this month, and an insight on what I'm reading, watching, listening to, cooking and dreaming right now.
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Jun 4CommentShare
A zucchini and ricotta torta salata, with a versatile pie dough that is very close to the flakiness of a proper puff pastry dough.
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May 31Comment 1Share
The subtly lemon-scented rice pudding tartlets were my favourite sweet treat as a child.
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May 28CommentShare
Old-fashioned, elegant, and quintessentially Tuscan, zuccotto is still one of the most beloved sweet treats of our region.
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May 24CommentShare
A typical Tuscan bread bun, the semelle, then fava beans and pecorino cheese, because May is the month of picnics. Add two slices of prosciutto cotto a…
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May 21CommentShare
My tricks to make easy, quick meat involtini - how to choose the meat, the filling, how to roll them and cook them.
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May 17Comment 2Share
Two classics collide in today’s recipe, turning a Tuscan side dish into a delicate soup. Plus, meet Steve and Linda and their bagels from Rome.
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May 14Comment 2Share
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