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Italian recipes from Puglia: pasta with turnip tops

25 April, 2020

This recipe from Puglia is easy to prepare and has a couple of variants depending on the area where it’s made. Today we give you the classic, traditional recipe though everyone has their own version. The best pasta to use…

Italian summer recipes: cold pasta with broccoli

25 April, 2020

If you’re looking for a quick recipe for your evening meal, this Italian recipe for cold pasta is what you need.Ingredients: 180 g pasta; boiled carots; broccoli; pesto sauce; tuna fish; two tablespoons extra virgin oil; salt .Preparation: cook the…

No chicken with pasta: what not to do with pasta

23 April, 2020

We looked at the golden rules as to how to cook the perfect pasta, and today we examine what you’re not “supposed” to do with pasta. This is one for the purists, and although I’m one to experiment with pasta…

Italian cinema and pasta dishes: maccheroni with tomato sauce from Un americano a Roma

23 April, 2020

Today’s recipe is inspired by a famous Italian movies called Un Americano a Roma or An American in Rome and starring Alberto Sordi; the movie tells the story of young man obsessed with American culture; he eats, behaves and dresses…

Introducing Italy's first pasta with chicken: easy pasta dish

20 April, 2020

We’ve seen many types of pasta in Italy and even discussed the fact that Italians will never put pasta with chicken. But here is the first case we’ve seen of the chicken-pasta combination and it comes direct from our friends…

Italian recipes: pasta with porcini and zucchini

17 April, 2020

Fed up with complicated recipes which never work out the way one wanted? If so try this quick and easy Italian recipe for pasta with porcini and zucchini; it won’t have you slaving in the kitchen for hours!Ingredients: 350 g…

Culinary tours and Italian cooking classes

15 April, 2020

While this might be confusing for Italians who can’t understand why you want to cook while on holiday, culinary tours in Tuscany and other regions, are nothing new for tourists to this country. Generally aimed at promoting local specialties, the…

Pasta recipes: tagliatelle with mushrooms and rocket

15 April, 2020

Here’s a great Italian pasta recipe for late summer/early autumn with bavette or tagliatelle with mushrooms and rocket. A few other ingredients give it some extra zing, making this a great entree course for any season.Ingredients: 250 grams of bavette,…

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…

Pasta recipes: dried tomatoes

14 April, 2020

Dubbed by the guys on Gustoblog as a “new recipe”, it’s no news to me, having had experience with a more international style of Italian cooking. Below, we give you the run-down on pasta with sundried tomatoes.Ingredients: any kind of…

Italian pasta recipes: gnocchi with prawns and asparagus

13 April, 2020

This is a mouth watering summer recipe that I will definitely try this season: gnocchetti with prawns and asparagus tips.Ingredients are asparagus, prawns, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, onion, pine nuts, white wine and potato gnocchi which is best if…

Italian summer recipes: cold pasta with tuna fish

12 April, 2020

With temperatures going up and heat waves on the way a quick and easy recipe for pasta fredda or cold pasta is what we need!Ingredients: 180 g spaghetti; canned tuna, lemon juice; chopped parsley; extra virgin olive oil; salt and…

Spring recipes from Italy: pasta with asparagus

9 April, 2020

While it snowed yesterday in northern Italy, to welcome spring and Easter on April 1st, generally speaking signs that the warmer season is on its way are apparent. Which means some wonderful Italian dishes are just around the corner. We’ve…

Italian pasta recipes: tagliatelle with coffee and orange juice

9 April, 2020

I have just come across a delicious pasta recipe which requires two rather unusual ingredients: coffee and orange juice! Here are the ingredients: 300 g flour; 3 eggs; 1 tablespoon powdered coffee; 1 kg oranges;; 100 g sugar; 50 g…

Italian pasta dish recipes: green tagliatelle from Trento

8 April, 2020

Just reading this recipes makes me hungry. You can do many things with pasta dishes, but often the most traditional Italian pasta dish is the best. Today, we look at green tagliatelle, or fettuccine with porcini mushrooms.Ingredients: 300 grams of…

Italian recipes: pink pappardelle

8 April, 2020

If you’re planning a romantic dinner for two, this pasta recipe will kindle even the coldest heart.Ingredients 320 gram pappardelle pasta; 100 gram smoked salmon; salvia; 1 clove garlic; ½ vodka; 2 dl light cream; butter; salt and green pepper.Method:…

Boutique shopping in Rome: 500 types of pasta at Pastateca

8 April, 2020

It’s true that you can do just about anything with pasta, but I would never have said there were 500 types of pasta in the world. But if you’re shopping in Rome and exploring its boutique stores, you might find…

How to make homemade lasagna: video

7 April, 2020

This video shows us the recipe for homemade lasagne - something which I tried to do on Friday and I’m happy to say I followed the recipe roughly (without knowing it) and turned out a nice lasagne. This recipe includes…

Italian recipes: pasta with pesto and octopus

7 April, 2020

Here’s another fantastic recipe that’s quick and great for summer eating, pasta with pesto and octopus.Ingredients: octopus, basil, pine nuts, garlic, extravirgin olive oil, pasta - best if it’s “trofie di Recco” from Liguria, but you should look for fresh…

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…

Pasta recipes: mushroom and tomato pasta

1 April, 2020

This is a traditional pasta recipe from Italy that many Italians may remember from their childhood, and which should get your family eating mushrooms, even if not the favourite dish.Ingredients for four people: 300 grams of chopped mushrooms, half a…

Italian recipes: pasta with tuna sauce

25 March, 2020

If you have just come back home, are in a hurry and need to prepare a delicious a meal for your friends, this Italian recipe for pasta with tuna sauce is what you need. Ingredients: 350 g fusilli pasta; basil…

Italian pasta recipes: fregole with mussels

24 March, 2020

If you are on a diet, this delicious pasta recipe is not for you, but it’s so delicious that if I were you, I would give it a try it all the same. But remember the fish must be absolutely…

World Tagliatelle Day: celebrating original Italian cooking

24 March, 2020

Today is international “Tagliatelle Day” when the world celebrates one of Italy’s greatest types of pasta. Around the world, more than 1000 Italian chefs will make original pasta recipes based on the traditional Italian dish from Bologna, of “tagliatelle al…

Italian festivals: Foligno hosts pasta festival

24 March, 2020

From the 25th to the 28th of September, Foligno, near Perugia in Umbria, will hold the Festival Nazionale dei Primi Piatti or the National Festival of First Courses. In other words, we’re talking a pasta festival!Foligno’s historic centre has been…