photo: Lucapuccio Last summer at a small restaurant on the beach of Bogliasco (tables straight on the beach, noise of the waves as background music and feet in the sand) a friend of mine, regular at …
Ligurian baked stuffed peaches are an ode to summer stone fruits. Yes, because all summer stone fruits (nectarine, peaches, apricots, cherries, plums) baked are excellent. Jams are the first evidence. So you have to work …
Turle are a typical first course of the so called “Cucina Bianca” literally White Cuisine. It is the traditional cuisine of the villages that rise on Monte Saccarello, in the Ligurian Maritime Alps close to …
I miss some things of my recent past - the one before COVID to be clear - more than others. Mainly those small things that populated my daily life without making noise. For example, I miss …
For Palm Sunday it's a tradition in the Italian Riviera baking sweet donuts, called "canestrelli", covered with colored sprinkles. People used to bring them to Church for having them blessed jointly with a branch …
Before Colomba Pasquale ("Dove bread") became the hero on all Italian Easter tables, Cavagnetti were the traditional Easter pastries of the Italian Riviera. The name derives from the genoese dialect word “cavagna”, meaning baskets. Indeed …
Braised chicken from the Italian Riviera traditional cuisine is one of the most cooked recipe during my cooking classes. Many people love and cook chicken in their Countries and it's a very easy recipe which …
In Italy March 19th is St. Joseph day and it is our Father's day. We celebrate this occasion - since ever - cooking fritters and in particular sweet St. Joseph fritters. Actually here in …
Potato focaccia is the first thing I decided to bake since we were lockdown at home due to this damned Coronavirus. It is a soft spongy bread, something as soft soft as a pillow where …
The recipe for Ligurian stockfish stew "stoccafisso accomodato" has been in my pen for some time and was just waiting for a good opportunity to get out. This came with Peter and Concetta, a happy retired …
I've never imagined that cooking a roasted turkey would be such a great pleasure. Now I understand why most of the cooking books, especially those of the past times when people had more time to …