Italian seafood Archives

Homemade pesto and prawns with linguine: Italian pasta dishes

15 April, 2020

This pasta recipe takes the traditional linguine with pesto and adds a touch of class with pan fried prawns. If you don’t overdo it on the very perfumed and strong-flavoured pesto, it’s a perfect entree to a meal featuring Italian…

Italian Christmas recipes: homemade seafood pasta

11 April, 2020

This Italian Christmas recipe is used as part of the initial Christmas toast at the beginning of the meal, and is an Italian seafood, Christmas pasta recipe.The ingredients for four people are: 400 grams of tagliatelle, 300 grams of turbot…

Italian recipes: stuffed squids from Liguria

9 April, 2020

Summer is almost over, but the following recipe can be served either hot or cold, so there’s no excuse not to get into the kitchen and start cooking. Ingredients: 1 kg squids; 100 g green olives; 2 tablespoons salted capers;…

Traditional Italian products: red chicory for Christmas and winter recipes

8 April, 2020

If you were wondering what the red stuff was in your Italian Christmas dish, or New Year’s Eve recipe, you may find it was the red endive, or chicory, currently in season in Italy and used in various Italian recipes…

Easy pasta recipes: spaghetti with clams and chilli

5 April, 2020

A classic Italian seafood recipe appearing as a pasta dish, is “spaghetti alle vongole”, and today we try another version of “vongole”, or clams, but with chilli. It’s an easy recipe to make and is fantastic for summer evenings. It…

Jaws at Lake Maggiore: agressive fish caught and barbecued after attacking swimmers

16 March, 2020

The fish that has apparently been terrorising swimmers at the idyllic Lake Maggiore has been caught and cooked, according to reports. The beach that was affected by the fish was called “Tenero” or “Tender”, and the fish’s common name is…