First Courses Fresh Pasta Cod and chickpea ravioli Giovanni Milana is a chef who works in a family restaurant in Olevano Romano, one of the best traditional restaurants in Italy. This recipe is... 23 May 2022 687 by Ilaria Barisi
Cookies Desserts Soft chocolate cookies A quick and delicious recipe. The first step is using the bain-marie to melt the chocolate. I discovered that this cooking system was invented by... 9 May 2022 609 by Ilaria Barisi
Cookies Desserts Mariuccia Easter cookies On a trip to Mongolia, I met this super smart woman. Over the years I went to visit her several times in Sacile in Friuli... 11 April 2022 343 by Ilaria Barisi
Desserts Fried desserts Doughnuts Doughnuts are one of the desserts I like the most because they remind me of my youth: the afternoons spent at my parents’ house with... 22 February 2022 400 by Ilaria Barisi
First Courses Fresh Pasta Fettuccine Alfredo The Fettuccine Alfredo were invented in Rome by Alfredo di Lelio in 1908 in the small restaurant of his mother Angelina. In 1914 Alfredo decided... 31 January 2022 618 by Ilaria Barisi
First Courses Soups Aunt Lina Passatelli Passatelli is one of the classic soups of central Italy and is derived from an ancient peasant tradition. The tool to create passatelli, called the... 3 January 2022 522 by Ilaria Barisi
Beef, mutton and pork Second Courses Roman-style lamb breaded fried ribs The Abbacchio Romano PGI is obtained from the fresh meat of both male and female suckling lambs. The particularity of the product does not lie... 23 December 2021 684 by Ilaria Barisi
First Courses Fresh Pasta My Family’s Lasagna One of the first books that reports a Lasagna recipe is the Chronicle of Frà Salimbene de Adam da Parma of 1284, in which sheets... 6 December 2021 666 by Ilaria Barisi
Cakes Desserts Tarts Sanna’s Finnish soft tart From my stay in Finland, I remember: salmon and shrimp, Karelian tarts “karjalanpiirakkala”, reindeer ham and vodka, the Koenig pastry shop, and the Russian restaurant... 29 August 2021 221 by Ilaria Barisi
Side dishes Sweet green peppers, celery, feta, and eggs I love cookbooks. I buy a lot of them every year. One of the most beautiful, graphically, is “Plenty More” by Yotam Ottolenghi. I look... 7 June 2021 320 by Ilaria Barisi