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Pomodori ripieni di riso
A staple of summer picnics and tavole calde, pomodori ripieni di riso, tomatoes stuffed with rice and oven roasted, make for a simple and relatively quick weekend dinner, part of a buffet or a tasty antipasto for a summer dinner for guests. Here's th (read full article)
Tonnarelli cacio e pepe
Cacio e pepe, literally 'cheese and pepper', is a very typical Roman dish, usually made with spaghetti, bucatini or—for the ne plus ultra version of this dish—tonnarelli, a kind of square spaghetti made with egg pasta popular in Lazio and A (read full article)
Spaghetti con pomodoro crudo
Summertime is fast approaching, the temperature is climbing, and my culinary imagination is starting to turn to dishes that quick but tasty and require minimal cooking. Here's one of the 'go to' summer pasta dishes in our house: spaghetti with a raw (read full article)
Pecorino
Pecorino is the name of a family of hard Italian Cheeses made from ewe’s milk. The word derives from pecora meaning ‘sheep’. Of the four main varieties of Pecorino, all of which have Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status under Eu (read full article)
Vegetarian Giro d’Italia: Pasta alla Carbonara
The Giro brings us into the Lazio region, which is dominated by Roman influence. Roman cooking features cheap, simply prepared, no frills food as, historically, eating was out of necessity. The cuisine features influences from various cultures, cu (read full article)
Saltimbocca alla romana
One of the most famous of all meat dishes in the Roman culinary repertoire, these veal scaloppini known as saltimbocca typifies Roman cooking in their simple, lusty deliciousness. And they are really quite easy to make, too, so long as you keep a few (read full article)
Seppioline alla griglia
Grilled seafood is extremely popular in Italy, especially in the warm weather months. One of my favorite restaurants in Rome, a place called "La Torricella" (The Little Tower) in the Testaccio section of town, served wonderful seafood. And perhaps (read full article)
La vignarola
A Springtime Roman treat, la vignarola is a vegetable 'medley' made from spring onions, fava beans, artichokes, peas and tender lettuce. It comes in an entirely vegan/vegetarian version and one that uses a bit of guanciale or pancetta to lend flavor (read full article)
Agnello brodettato
In Italy, as elsewhere, lamb—especially the milk-fed baby lamb called abbacchio—is strongly associated with the Springtime. Roman cookery has some wonderful lamb dishes, such as the grilled rib chops known as scottadito (see this post) and lamb r (read full article)
Carciofi alla giudia
Carciofi alla giudia, or Jewish-style artichokes, are one of the signature dishes of Roman Jewish cooking and a very popular dish in Rome. I have rarely seen this dish in Italian restaurants in the US, perhaps because it is a bit tricky to make, or b (read full article)
Fettuccine al salmone affumicato
I love smoked salmon. It is so incredibly versatile, delicious and good for you, too. And it adds a touch of elegance to any dish in which it appears. Who could ask for more? One of our favorite weeknight dinners at home is this simple pasta with smo (read full article)
Straccetti di manzo con la rughetta
One of the iconic dishes of Roman cookery, stracetti con la rughetta, or 'little rags' with arugula, is almost one of the simplest of all to prepare:Take beef, sliced as thinly as possible and cut into short strips, and sauté it over a very high fla (read full article)
Carciofi alla romana
Dear readers: I am back from my travels, at my blogging post just in time for the first day of Spring. Artichokes are back in season! And is there any vegetable more typical of Roman cooking, perhaps of all Italian cuisine, than the artichoke? What b (read full article)
Todo sobre la variedad Sangiovese
La variedad Sangiovese, es la variedad tinta italiana por excelencia. Su nombre deriva del latín Sanguis Jovis, “La sangre voven”, pero tambien de forma literal puede ser traducido como la “La sangre de Júpiter”. La uva fu (read full article)
Polenta con salsicce e spuntature
Rome is not especially known for its love of polenta, perhaps because its winters are relatively mild compared with those up in true polenta country skirting the southern rim of the Alps, but there is one polenta dish you are bound to find if you vis (read full article)
How to Make Polenta
Polenta is one of the most emblematic dishes of the northern Italian cuisines from the Veneto to Lombardia to Piemonte. It is also one of the oldest foods eaten in Italy, dating back at least to 990 BCE. In its original form, polenta—known to the a (read full article)
Anguilla alla bisentina
One of the best kept culinary secrets in Italy is the cuisine of northern Lazio in and around the city of Viterbo, an area known as the Tuscia. The style of cooking in this area is a kind of fusion between the lusty cooking of Roman to its south wit (read full article)
Salsicce alla romana coi broccoletti
Is there any meat more satisfying than sausages? If there is, I haven't found it. And, in this typically Roman dish, sausages marry particularly well with broccoletti, the cruciferous vegetable known in English as 'broccoli rabe'. The slight bitterne (read full article)
Stracciatella alla romana
One usually associates Roman cooking with hearty and robustly flavored dishes and, by and large, the image holds true. But there are some exceptions like today's offering: stracciatella, a light 'egg drop soup', perfect for a light first course or su (read full article)
Pollo fritto per Chanukà
Continuing with our Italian Hannukah dinner, after the first course of riso coll'uvetta, proceed to the second course of chicken which is, of course, fried in olive oil. This dish is popular in Rome and all over Italy for Hannukah. The day before, cu (read full article)
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