Chocolate ricotta pie is a delicious Italian baked pie made with ricotta cheese and chocolate chips as fillings, a pie crust base, and some pie crust on top. It is usually made at Easter in Italy, but it has become quite common to prepare it as a normal dessert. In fact, it does not come…
Orecchiette are a type of pasta that is very common in Apulia and Basilicata, two Southern Italian regions. Their name comes from orecchie, ears, because of their shape. In fact, orecchiette literally means “small ears”. Here we see how to make authentic Italian orecchiette. Like most pasta types from the southern parts of Italy, orecchiette…
This is gonna be fun (and shameful) to admit, but it’s the truth: even though I am Italian, I had never heard of tigelle bread until moving to Spain. We used to go to have lunch on weekends in an Italian place close to where we lived as they always had good offers when booking…
This focaccia recipe is a must in your diet. In Apulia, where I come from, eating dishes full of carbs is, as you can well imagine, very common, particularly during parties or Sundays. Classical examples of carb-rich dishes are also pizza and calzone.The variety of these dishes is so huge that you can always use…
When I was a teenager and I used to live in Italy, I ate black venus rice almost exclusively at every Christmas or at other special events, like birthdays, as it is not a recurrent dish in everyday Italian cooking. The type of rice used by us to make this black rice with shrimp and…
We all know that Friday evening is for most of us the perfect moment for relaxation: after an intense working week, we all just wait for that moment. We play some music or a movie, and we fully enjoy the evening. There is a but, though (a recurrent one, to be honest): what to cook?…