Recipes

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…