Fava beans pesto (or marò): for as long as it takes

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...

Italian Riviera artichoke pie: recipe and history

What to do when a huge box of fresh, flavoured, thorny artichokes– a present of your trusted farmer - stand mocking on the table of your...

Potatoes and green beans polpettone is a flagship dish, a symbol, of the Italian Riviera traditional cuisine: few poor ingredients, wisely...

Oh, fried sweet milk! When I was a child and we went to the restaurant with my parents – which occurred quite seldom as the best...

Chickpeas and chard soup is a classic fall recipe of the Italian Riviera. As you know in the past peasants used to cook lots of...

UPDATED - Here my recipe of the traditional Ligurian walnut sauce and some ideas on how to use walnut sauce. This morning I was strolling...

How many times I found myself buying a piece of Savory Rice Pie to stop the hunger pains at lunch time? The reason probably is that this...

There are recipes you must wait months to cook as their main ingredients must be at their peak and when the right time eventually arrives...

Few days ago I was hanging around on my old Genoese cooking books looking for some ideas for a traditional meat dish and I bump into the...

Last Sunday we had planned to go to the beach, instead the black sky gave us rain and hail. It seemed to have jumped back in November. A...