Soups Pasta and beans In Rome, pasta and beans is made with spaghetti or maltagliati, while rice is used in the north. Grandma’s Irene recipe is one of her... 28 January 2019 669 by Ilaria Barisi
Fresh Pasta Cannelloni filled with meat ragout There is no Sunday in the Hostaria without a good plate of cannelloni: they are really delicious and children, for arcane reasons, usually like them... 26 January 2019 1.3K by Ilaria Barisi
Fruits Jam of apples and lemons Years ago, I bought a recipe book from a well-known pastry chef from Campania: Sal de Risio. One of the recipes was about a tart... 24 January 2019 535 by Ilaria Barisi
Beef, mutton and pork Grandma Violetta’s breaded beef escalope Italy is full of different recipes for breaded escalope. The difference between the Nordic and Roman recipes lies in the fact that our slice is... 21 January 2019 1.7K by Ilaria Barisi
Spoon desserts Bonet This cake is Piedmontese and is delicious. I learned this recipe years ago. I was at the home of a schoolmate, and her mother gave... 19 January 2019 1K by Ilaria Barisi
Side dishes Spinach Roman style Spinach was my nightmare when I was a child. Grandma Violetta “hid” them in the soup. Grandma Irene to convince me showed me Popeye the... 17 January 2019 1.9K by Ilaria Barisi
Pastasciutta Pasta with pumpkin and speck Lorenza was a colleague of mine for many years when I was working in a pharmaceutical company. She knows how to cook very well, butdespite... 14 January 2019 1.6K by Ilaria Barisi
Main dishes Polenta with spare ribs Polenta is an ancient dish of Italian origin made from cereal flour. In the past,it has constituted the basicfood of the diet of the inhabitants... 12 January 2019 1.2K by Ilaria Barisi
Cookies Fried desserts Aunt Ada’s cream fried biscuits My great-aunt Ada, sister of my maternal grandfather, was a woman of rare elegance. My most vivid memories of her are:the silent husband intent on... 10 January 2019 1K by Ilaria Barisi
Side dishes Mashed potatoes Italian style We probably have to thank the French for this invention, even if today there is no Italian region or family in which there is no... 5 January 2019 860 by Ilaria Barisi
