mains/secondi piatti Archives

Soffritto napoletano

6 November 2021

We don’t often think about it, but meats also have seasons. Just as lamb is a talisman of the spring, […]

14 August 2021

The Italian way with grilled shrimp, like most Italian grilling and indeed most Italian cookery, is simplicity itself. You marinate

1 May 2021

One of the pleasanter dilemmas I face on a regular basis is what to do with leftover boiled beef. In

6 March 2021

Even with nearly 600 recipes posted over ten years of blogging on Italian home cooking, I still find there are

23 January 2021

Girello al limone is an unusual dish from Edda Servi Machlin’s fascinating cookbook, The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews:

28 November 2020

The Italian flat omelette known as the frittata, like pasta, is endlessly adaptable. The eggs provide a vehicle for just

24 October 2020

October is Italian-American Heritage month, and long time readers will know that each year, around this time, we feature an

10 October 2020

It seems many of us have lost our taste for “variety meats” these days. It wasn’t that long ago—as I

29 August 2020

I love octopus. And in my opinion this iconic Neapolitan dish, polpo alla luciana or Stewed Octopus in the style