pastas, soups and risottos/primi piatti Archives

Timballo teramano

17 January 2024

Timballo teramano, one of the signature dishes of the Abruzzo region of Italy, is a kind of lasagna, but a […]

9 December 2023

An easy and versatile cold weather dish, pasta con zucca e funghi or Pasta with Winter Squash and Mushrooms, is

4 November 2023

Our last day in Italy last spring was certainly memorable. The train back to Rome from Bari was cancelled midway

9 September 2023

September is here and, for many in the northern hemisphere, the return to work this means autumn is already here.

4 August 2023

This recipe was born out of a challenge. One of my nieces, who lives in Rome, recently took a weekend

10 June 2023

Here’s my candidate for the quickest and easiest pasta of all time, orecchiette con pomodorini e rucola, or Orecchiette Pasta

3 June 2023

If you follow Italian food trends, you’ve probably heard of spaghetti all’assassina aka “Killer” Spaghetti. From its humble beginnings as

29 April 2023

I’m just back from a two week trip to Italy, where we visited Rome, my old stomping grounds, and Puglia,

25 March 2023

By now just about everybody on the planet knows and loves carbonara, the most famous of Roman pasta dishes. Perhaps