Casatiello: Neapolitan Easter bread (recipe)
Casatiello is a Neapolitan Easter bread, chock full of delicious salame and cheese and topped with symbolic eggs. Easy to make and stunning to see.
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Polpettone alla Madera: Tuscan meatloaf (recipe)
This recipe is from Tuscany. Polpettone, aka meatloaf, is one of the dishes I remember my mother preparing as a child. She in turn, had been taught to make it by my real nonna, who I never met since she died before I was born. My mother’s polpettone was delicious, roasted in the oven with …
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Pasta ‘ncasciata: Montalbano’s favourite
This post was inspired by my fellow blogger Vanessa who has a site I enjoy very much called Food in Books. It deals with the two things I love more than anything else: eating and reading. Vanessa scours the world’s literature looking for references to food and then she develops a recipe based on …
Quick guide to Italian ingredients: ‘Nduja
This article is about Calabria. ‘Nduja (pronouned ‘in-doo-ya’) is an incredibly spicy salame from the Calabrian village of Spìlinga. It’s made from pork mixed together with a high proportion of Calabrian chile (peperoncino), which gives it a bright red colour and fiery taste. It’s very soft which makes it easily spreadable on bread, which …
Mozzarella in carrozza: deep fried cheese sandwiches (recipe)
For a long time, one of my favourite food blogs has been Keep Calm and Fanny On!, in which we are introduced the to the wonderful 1970s world of the British TV cook, Fanny Cradock. For those of you that don’t know her, Fanny was like a terrifying caricature of Julia Child, who corralled the …
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