Tortelli di zucca: pumpkin pasta from Modena (recipe)
It’s pumpkin season again and the shops are full of all shapes and sizes of squash ready to be made into soups, risotti, gnocchi and so on. Italians love pumpkin, or zucca as they call it.
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Melanzane di Mauro: recipe
Aubergine, eggplant, melanzane: they sound good in any language and, in my opinion, taste even better. These have been my favourite vegetables since I was a child and my mother used to …
Semifreddo con saba (recipe)
Is it ice-cream? Is it gelato? No, it’s semifreddo, a deliciously simple dessert made from freezing whipped cream. It has quite a light consistency, caused by the air in the cream and all …
Zuppa Inglese: not just a small trifle (recipe)
This weekend I was invited for barbecue at my friend’s house to celebrate the finishing of some extension work. I wanted to take a dessert, and so still influenced by my trip to Modena, I decided to take the most Modenese of desserts, a zuppa inglese.
Pasticcio di tortellini: tortellini pie from Modena
Ever since I came back from Modena, I’ve been dreaming of this pie. Having grown up in England, I love big, traditional, English pies such as pork pies and the game pies you see in TV costume dramas weighing down many a seventeenth-century table. This is the closest thing I’ve found in Italian cuisine to …
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English soup in Modena
If Bologna is the city of colonnades, Modena, its near neighbour is the city of bicycles. There are hundreds all over the town and are the preferred way for the locals to navigate the centro storico lending the city a tranquil air. There are also colonnades which give the town the look of a small …