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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.

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Dec 31

Ham and lentil casserole

Here's one answer to the perennial post-Christmas question: what to do with the leftover ham? As we all know, pork and legumes have a natural affinity, so why not pair ham and lentils in this rather loose riff on a cassoulet? First, simmer some lent (read full article)

bean, Frank, Meat, piatti unici, Pork, salumi, winter

Nov 11

Fagiolini in umido

While Sundays dinners at Angelina's house were once-a-week, belly-busting, meaty affairs, she practically lived on vegetables during the week. This was long before vegetarianism went mainstream and she would not have thought of herself as a 'weekday (read full article)

bean, Campania, contorno, Nana, secondi, Toscana, Vegan, vegetable, Vegetarian

Nov 04

Zuppa di scarola e fagioli

Here's a quick and easy dish, typical of the Campania region of Italy, that is a cold weather weeknight staple at our house: escarole and bean soup. You begin, as always, with a soffritto by sweating a thinly sliced onion in olive oil until transluce (read full article)

bean, Campania, Nana, primi piatti, Soup, Vegan, vegetable, Vegetarian

Oct 30

Pasta e piselli

Here's a when-you-really-don't-feel-like-cooking dish. It's a quick and easy combination of pasta and peas, but really satisfying. This and pasta e lenticchie were my favorite everyday pastas Angelina would make when I was a kid.Here's the way Angeli (read full article)

bean, Nana, Pasta, primi piatti, Quick

Sep 18

Pasta e ceci

There's nothing so satisfying yet so quick and simple than the combination of pasta and some sort of legume--beans, peas or, in this case, ceci (chickpeas). And, as you probably know, the combination makes for a complete protein with plenty of fiber (read full article)

bean, Nana, Pasta, primi piatti, Soup, Vegan, Vegetarian

Jul 25

Fave e pecorino

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)

antipasti, bean, cheese, Lazio, Quick, spring

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