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This food blog is inspired by the wonderful home cooking of my Italian grandmother, a native of a small town in Campania called Apice Vecchio. You'll find her recipes here, plus some of my favorite dishes from other parts of Italy, especially Rome, where I lived for ten memorable years.
A quick post on this well-known but relatively new variant on penne all'arrabbiata: make your arrabbiata with less peperoncino than usual, just enough to give the dish a slight 'bite', and then add a shot glass or two of vodka to your sauce. Allow to (read full article)
Here's another signature dish of Roman cooking, penne all'arrabbiata or 'angry' penne, perfect for an impromtu meal or snack when you crave something spicy. It is a very simple dish—basically an aglio, olio e peperoncino with tomato and extra peper (read full article)
Everyone has heard of, if not made, fried peppers, a summertime standby. They make an appearance at just about every Italian street festival. So this dish can be a bit banal. But Angelina had her own, special way with fried peppers, one that made th (read full article)
There are so many different ways to stuff a pepper. Here's one, with tunafish, that I particularly like:Get yourself some large, bell peppers, preferably red or yellow but green will do (that's what I had on hand last night) and cut them open--either (read full article)
Summer is here and along with an abundance of zucchini in my folks' backyard garden has come a treasure trove of zucchini flowers. Here is the way Angelina would make them, stuffed with mozzarella and anchovies and fried in a light flour-and-egg batt (read full article)
There is surely no meat more typical of the Mediterranean basin than lamb. Sheep husbandry began in pre-historic times and which is fairly unusual in Italian cooking, although I understand that it is used in Tuscan cookingg'. avorites) but, thetat (read full article)
It could be said that bucatini all'amatricana and spaghetti alla carbonara are the 'Romulus and Remus' of Roman cooking. No two dishes typify the local cuisine better than these two yet, like the two founding brothers of the Eternal City, neither act (read full article)
Although my grandmother Angelina never made it--as far as I can recall--as a long-time resident of Rome I have a great fondness for la carbonara, one of the iconic dishes of Roman cooking. Together with bucatini all'amatriciana, you'll find it on jus (read full article)
This is comfort food at its most comforting, one of the many humble but delicious dishes that typify popular Roman cooking: braised oxtail "butcher style".The tail is one of those cuts of meat that are known in Italian as the quinto quarto, or litera (read full article)
Fave e pecorino is not really a "dish" at all, you just set out the fava beans, in their pods, and a hunk of pecorino cheese. Each diner opens the pods for themselves and eats the raw fava beans they find inside with a bit of pecorino, washed down wi (read full article)
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