Turle: sheperds’ potato and cheese dumplings

Turle are a typical first course of the so called “Cucina Bianca” literally White Cuisine. It is the traditional cuisine of the villages...

MY GRANNY’S SPRING VEGGIE LASAGNAS

Many are the rites of passage towards spring. The first walks without jacket or the skirts without socks despite the pungent air. The...

My last post was on Genoese meat ravioli, one of the most traditional dish of our Region. Unfortunately I did not have enought time to...

There are those who defined the Genoese meat ravioli as "the most exquisite of all the soups in the world" (Giovanni Casaccia,...

This recipe for the Genoese roasted rice tastes of friendship. My friend Serafino (a famous genoese butcher now on retirement and son of...

A new year has commenced, under the skin flows and tickles a desire of renewal. The desire to put a full-stop and write a new paragraph...

How many new things to do and project in these first days of winter. The first snow on the mountains in the backcountry of Genoa to...

Fava beans pesto has been occupying a line in my “post to do” list since last year. It appeared on April, when this blog was just a work...

Sometimes we find ourselves fond of something even if we have never seen it before. Sometimes it is a person met on a particular occasion...

UPDATED - I begin this new year with an ancient recipe, ‘cause I need some history, I need stuff which survived the times and requires...