Fettuccine pasta with giant prawns and cherry tomatoes. Pasta con gamberoni e pomodorini. Pasta with seafood is very very popular here in Italy, most especially in the southern Italian regions and coastal areas. There are many delicious seafood pasta recipes. Some are made with a mix of...
Authentic Italian spaghetti alla carbonara. Spaghetti alla carbonara is probably ‘the’ most well known Italian pasta recipe. Well, maybe alongside spaghetti bolognese! And like spaghetti bolognese, it has been reinvented a thousand times outside of Italy. Of course, different...
Tuscan pici pasta all’etrusca with asparagus
April 11, 2018
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Tuscan pici pasta all’etrusca (with roasted asparagus and cherry tomatoes) Tuscan pici pasta all’etrusca is a typical pasta recipe from Tuscany. It’s made with pici, a traditional hand-rolled pasta that looks like very thick spaghetti strings and a delicious pesto type sauce made with...
Pici pasta from Tuscany. Pici is an ancient type of pasta from Tuscany. Originally always fresh and homemade, this pasta looks like long thick spaghetti. Like many other types of pasta which were invented a long time ago and were an important staple for Italy’s rural peasant population, pici...
Poached salmon and asparagus lasagne al forno
April 8, 2018
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Poached salmon and asparagus lasagne al forno Spring is sprung and asparagus season has started here in Northern Italy! There are so many delish pasta with asparagus recipes but this poached salmon and asparagus lasagne al forno is one you are definitely going to want to try! It’s asparagus...
Tuscany (Toscana); the Food and Pasta Like so many others who have visited Tuscany, I fell in love with this region. Not that I have seen it all, Tuscany covers an area of nearly 23,000 sq km, twenty-five percent of which is mountainous. But, it has much to offer and is a part of Italy that does...