Grandma’s stuffed tomatoes are a must on our summer tables. In Liguria, the tomato par excellence are “cuore di bue” tomatoes, a tomato that has the shape of a beef heart. They are cultivated in all the vertical gardens of the Riviera and, intensively, in...
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 you must absolutely NOT forget to prepare! One of these – yes, jointly with jams – is homemade ketchup or, better, its...
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 recipe of Tomaxelle, the Ligurian meat rolls. Why not? At the end of the day meat rolls are an old-time dish. At home my granny...
The sparkling skin of the anchovies, the intense smell of fresh tomatoes and basil, the bright green and red colors: all this let me foretaste a dinner outside in a light summer night. The bagnun is a poor dish, the fishermen of the Easter coast of Liguria...