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Italian recipes for Easter: cheese pizza from Umbria

21 April, 2020

Easter in Italy is a time of traditional Italian recipes, where every family pulls out the old recipe book and makes something from times gone by. In Umbria, the “crescia” is famous, and often better known as a cheese pizza.…

How to serve Italian cheese: condiments

19 April, 2020

There are many Italian cheeses that you can treat yourself to, and often the enjoyment is increased by choosing the right side serve for your cheese. With soft cheeses, aged cheese and everything right down to the simple ricotta or…

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…

How to make carbonara

14 April, 2020

Of all the famous sauces you can put on pasta in Italy, today we look at Carbonara. While the traditional recipe doesn’t involve cream, in Italy every mother, grandmother and house wife has her own recipe. Pasta alla carbonara is…

Culurgiones: ravioli from Sardinia

23 March, 2020

It’s obvious that I am not from Sardinia. In fact the first time I heard someone talking about culurgiones I thought they were simply trying to insult me. Well I soon found out that I was wrong and culurgiones were…

Ketchup on pasta? You must be kidding…

22 March, 2020

Pasta without cheese is like the cake without icing. Seriously - the Italians have a proverb that goes “come il cacio sui maccheroni” (like cheese on maccheroni) which is when you’ve reached the point of sublime perfection. There are various…

May: pesto season in Liguria

22 March, 2020

In Italy, especially on certain days of the week in towns throughout the country, you can find markets which sell fresh and local produce and they’re really great places to shop. You can mix it with the oldies who’ve been…

Italian recipes: spaghetti with garlic, olives and anchovies

17 March, 2020

Try this easy and quick pasta recipe. It’s simply heavenly ! Here are the ingredients: 200 g spaghetti; 10 anchovies; 20 stoned olives; 2 garlic cloves; oil; 1 tablespoon tomato sauce; two tablespoons sour cream; 50 g pecorino cheese; salt…