one dish meals/piatti unici Archives

Pasta al forno (Baked Pasta)

2 October 2011

Is there anything more comforting than baked pasta? If there is, I haven’t come across it yet. And while some […]

3 August 2011

Insalata di riso, or rice salad, is another staple of Italian summertime cooking. It’s quick and very easy to make,

3 April 2011

Recently, a Belgian colleague of mine (who is also a regular reader of this blog) was kind enough to give

25 March 2011

Baby milk-fed lamb or abbacchio is one of the wonders of Roman cooking, in particular in the spring. Lamb that

5 March 2011

Tuscans are known for being the biggest bean-eaters in Italy, so much so that they are sometimes called mangiafagioli in

19 February 2011

A not-so-distant cousin of Provençale brandade de morue, baccalà mantecato is one of the signature dishes of Venetian cuisine and a

30 January 2011

Some of you will have read in a recent post that I finally broke down and bought a slow cooker,

23 January 2011

Risotto is one of the staples of northern Italian cooking, nowhere more so than in Lombardy. Risotto alla milanese is

18 January 2011

The new year brought a rush of activity that had made it hard to keep up with my blogging ‘duties’,