This dish is simple to make and absolutely delicious. It tastes just as good as any seafood pasta you’d eat on the Abruzzo coast. Prawns, calamari and scampi, a light tomato base, a splash of white wine, and a long pasta to carry it all. That’s it. What…
What is Salsa alla Marchigiana This Salsa alla Marchigiana is a basic pasta sauce made from white wine, tomato, and herb. This particular recipe is at least 70 years old, a relic from a post World War 2 collection of recipes from the 1050s. But I would imagine…
Pasta al limone is a simple lemon pasta recipe from Sicily. Just dress any long pasta with lemon. Then add some summer herbs and spices. And finish with Parmesan cheese. Pasta al limone captures the bold citrus flavours of Sicily in one simple dish. It’s one of the most…
This Napolitana sauce (also spelled Napoletana) is a simple tomato sauce from Naples in southern Italy. And you only need 5 basic ingredients: crushed tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil, olive oil, and salt. It takes 30 minutes to make and tastes way better than sauce from a jar. Use…
I must admit, I do have a weakness for chicken livers. They have a richness of flavour that gives them a meatiness that you dont get from other parts of a chicken. So when I see an Italian chicken liver recipe, it always gets my attention, and this…
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…