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Italian Riviera traditional pasta & where to buy

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Ratatuia: stewed mixed summer veggies.

cipolle ripiene

Italian Riviera stuffed onions

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Enrica Monzani

Dear Reader,

hello and welcome to my small kitchen in Genoa!

My name is Enrica, I was born and bred in the sunny Italian Riviera.

My mother and my grandmother, two great cooks, put skillets and spoons in my hands since I was tall enough to get to the cookers and taught me to love through cooking.

I decided to open this blog to report my personal journey into the culinary heritage of the Italian Riviera, also by sharing our family recipes.

Take a break, pull up a chair and taste the Italian Riviera

Let me tell you a story about Ligurian cuisine

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The happiest moments.

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Yesterday I noticed that sole pear tree in the park with all its yellow leaves on the floor and I eventually realized that autumn had arrived.
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Glimpse of happiness from a day spent into the wild. We foraged chestnuts, mushrooms, blackberries, saffron flowers. We met wild cows with their newborn veals and , incredible, wild horses in the woods. This is #ValGraveglia, one of the narrow valleys of the Italian Riviera peacefully leading to the sea.

Scatti di felicità da una giornata passata immersi nella natura. Abbiamo raccolto castagne, more, funghi, fiore di Croco per fare il risotto allo zafferano e bacche di ginepro. Abbiamo incontrato una mandria di mucche con tantissimi i vitelli appena nati e, incredibile, cavalli selvatici che pascolavano nel bosco! Questa è la Val Graveglia, una delle tante valli liguri che dai monti, silenziose, portano al mare.

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One of the most important ingredients in my Ligurian cuisine is extra virgin olive oil. Countless are the times I grab the oil bottle when I cook, at home or during my cooking classes. But one of the best way to understand the magic of this liquid gold is to taste it alone. This is way I usually serve to my guest some extra virgin olive oil of our family olive groove to taste and before tasting I say "take a piece of bread, dip it in the oil bowl, sprinkle with few salt, close your eyes and bite". The most frequent expression is "amazing!" *
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Do you know STUFFED VEGETABLES? They are one of my favorite vegetarian mail course of our traditional cuisine: vegetables stuffed with.... vegetables 😊, potatoes, eggs, parmesan and fresh herbs. All cooked in the oven with a sprinkle of breadcrumbs and extra virgin olive oil, off course! We stuff zucchini, eggplants, peppers, onions. My fav are the onions and the recipe, if you are curious, is in the blog archives!
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Pesto making. When I started doing pesto by hands I was approaching the mortar with a slight anxiety because, even if the result of beating small fresh basil leaves and adding cheese and extra virgin olive oil is always a success, it’s a tough work though rewarding job. Now I prepare pesto in the mortar about 3 times a week - probably more than any Genoese nonna 👵- and I fell more comfortable , I have a lot of fun and compete with my self all the time to make it quicker and creamier and perfectly balanced. ... and I still love LOVE eating it!! #asmallkitcheningenoa #myliguriantable #cookingclassgenoa #foodreportage #italiaintavola #fooditaly #eattheworld #raccontidicucina #piattitipiciregionali #orgogliopesto #pestogenovese #pestopasta #hautecuisines #food52 #foodandwine #bbcgoodfood #saveurmag #foodstyling #huffposttaste #thekitchn

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The perfect plate of troffie seasoned with fresh pesto hand made in the mortar: steamy, bright green and creamy.⠀
Thank you sweet Debra @debvdw_foodfacesplaces for this picture of YOUR pesto!⠀
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Teaching how to make fresh pasta is one of the most rewarding things when giving cooking classes. The surprise of people in discovering how easy it is, the concentration and efforts they put in kneading a perfectly smooth and elastic dough and the care they use in shaping it. And eventually the WOW when they eat the first bite 😊!! ⠀#ilovemyjob ⠀
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Cooking pizza, is one of our favorite way of staying together and have fun. No pressure, no expectations, either way something good and made with love will come out.
This is one of my favorite pizza;”: Italian Riviera traditional “sardenaira ”: tomatoes, salted anchovies, garlic, oreganon and a lot of extra virgin olive oil! (for the kids we skip onions but they should be part of the toppings too 😉)
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