A new post to tell you about my recent stay in the Italian Riviera Inland and to share with you the recipe of the amazing Torta Baciocca, the potato savory pie traditional of these places. …
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Vegetarian recipes
Ratatuia: stewed mixed summer veggies.
2 August 2019
Ratatuia always had the flavor of summer to me. I remember my grandmother who every year, in summer, had to deal with overflowing boxes of vegetables that the farmer used to bring her from …
Italian Riviera stuffed onions
14 July 2019
Onion shells stuffed with potatoes, onions, parmesan cheese and herbs, these are the Italian Riviera stuffed onions. A light and tasty recipe for your summer evenings. You prepare them in a short time, they cook …
Cundigiun: the Italian Riviera tomato salad
6 July 2019
We are in the middle of summer and I cannot fail to tell you about one of the salads that best represents this season in Liguria: the tomato cundigiun (or condigiun or condiglione) It is a …
MY GRANNY’S SPRING VEGGIE LASAGNAS
23 April 2019
Many are the rites of passage towards spring. The first walks without jacket or the skirts without socks despite the pungent air. The visit to the florist to dress up terraces and gardens, the afternoons …
Farinata: the Genoa chickpea tart.
13 November 2018
I have always had a conflictual relationship with farinata, the famous Genoa chickpea tart. Sincere and dispassionate love when bought already made, deep hate mixed with discomfort when I prepared it at home. Yes, I’ve …
Pumpkin time? Let’s savory pumpkin pie!
4 November 2018
It may be because it is the season and you can see it placidly sat on all greengrocer’s counters. It may be for its warm and enveloping color, which recalls that of the leaves on …
Baked stuffed zucchini blossoms and me in the paper.
31 July 2018
This recipe of baked stuffed zucchini blossoms came out of my kitchen unexpected. Last week I gave my first intensive two days cooking class in Cervo. My guest was Julie, an American personal chef travelling …
Stroscia cake: THE extra-virgin olive oil cake.
12 March 2018
Simplicity often amazes. In the kitchen it is so: if you use excellent raw materials, few of them treated with care and combined with judgment and experience are enough to create excellent dishes. Stroscia cake of …
It snows. Roasted cardoons.
2 March 2018
White as the sky, roofs and streets of Genoa these days. White as the snow that enveloped Genoa in a whirlwind of icy wind. The white cardoon with its candor has the taste and shape of …
Bruschetta with artichokes and eggs
25 February 2018
This is the recipe my granny used to prepare as soon as huge boxes of fresh artichokes arrived from our farmer of Albenga (btw in Albenga the best ever Italian Riviera artichokes grow!). Before starting to …