Pasta con Broccoli Arriminata is a quick and tasty dish sweet and savoury dish from Sicily. It is a distinct dish in Sicily’s rich cuisine. Despite the confusing name, the star ingredient is of course cauliflower. It turns out ‘broccoli’ in Italian means cauliflower in Sicily. There is…
What is Anatra in Umido? Anatra in umido is a stewed duck dish that is very popular in Italy’s Friuli region. Here the locals slow-cook pieces of duck with aromatic vegetables, wine, tomatoes, and herbs. The result is tender meat bathed in a rich, flavourful sauce. It goes…
Calandraca is a traditional dish from Trieste. It is a flavourful, comforting stew that stretches back to the Trieste’s seafaring past. It is still popular today in and around Trieste. The Origins of Calandraca Calandraca was invented by Trieste’s sailors. It was a way to use up ingredients…
Vincisgrassi is the signature dish of a small town Italian town of Macerata. But it is now synonymous with the whole of Le Marche. The bold flavours from chicken hearts, liver, and gizzards are slow cooked with beef and pork to make a rich ragù. Then layered with…
Ever wondered how to cook veal liver? Then Sicilian Fegato all’Agrodolce is one of the best recipes to start with. Fegato all’Agrodolce is a traditional Sicilian veal liver dish. It perfectly blends sweet, sour, and savoury flavours into a single, delicious meal. Sicilian farmers raise almost 60,000 head…
Potacchio Marchigiana is a rustic pot roast from Italy’s Le Marche region. It’s a very old recipe with very few ingredients. And typical of the peasant dishes eaten in this little known region. If you do you happen to come across this recipe in Le Marche, it is…
Loin of pork with roast potatoes is one of the many dishes that the Friuli region has absorbed from from the close relationship it has had with its former Austro-Hungarian neighbours. In this case, The Friulians have taken Austria’s Schweinbraten and added garlic, thyme and rosemary to give…
This chicken liiver and sage risotto recipe is one of my favourite finds from the Friuli region. I love chicken livers. They are full of iron and B-vitamins. They are extremely cheap. And they taste great. And of course, I love risotto. But this dish is more than…
What is Pollo all’ Arancia Pollo all’ Arancia is a zesty chicken dish in a tasty orange sauce. Sicilians love oranges. In fact Sicily grows some of the best oranges in the world. For this reason, they love to use them into their meat dishes wherever possible. Normally…