Cakes Desserts Nonna Violetta’s polenta and ricotta cake This recipe is: inexpensive, nutritious, and made with local raw materials. Grandmother never made it for me, but it remains in my aunt’s memories of... 7 March 2022 946 by Ilaria Barisi
Side dishes Artichokes and potatoes One of my favorite teachers at cooking school was chef Andrea Palmieri, who owns a lovely restaurant in Via Pò. A kind, nice, cheerful man... 28 February 2022 972 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 646 by Ilaria Barisi
Cookies Desserts Pearl spelt cookies My sister gave me this delicious recipe. I slightly modified it, replacing the sugar with honey in order to make the cookies even more “rustic”.... 7 February 2022 734 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 959 by Ilaria Barisi
Cakes Desserts Torta Paradiso: Italian “Heaven” cake A heavenly good cake from Pavia in Lombardy. The recipe was codified in 1878 by the Cusani Visconti family. When “swimsuit season,” which I have... 24 January 2022 1.8K by Ilaria Barisi
Main dishes Side dishes Baked fennel with Mornay sauce It is known that children do not like vegetables. Even I as a child followed the rule that green in the dish was equivalent to... 17 January 2022 1K by Ilaria Barisi
Desserts Fruits Candied Orange peel I’ve always hated candied fruit. As a child, I used to take hours to eat Panettone because it had to be scrupulously de-candied and the... 10 January 2022 1.8K 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 907 by Ilaria Barisi
Desserts Spoon desserts Chestnut mousse This is for when I have many guests during the Christmas holidays and I want to offer a dessert I’ve prepared, but I don’t want... 27 December 2021 1.9K by Ilaria Barisi
