boiled Archives

Fagiolini e patate (Green Bean and Potato Salad)

12 August 2023

It’s a testament to the vastness of Italian cookery that, even after 14 years of blogging, I find that I’ve […]

1 May 2021

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

19 February 2016

Lent—la Quaresima in Italian—is the roughly six week period on the Catholic calendar between Ash Wednesday and Easter. Traditionally a period of

19 January 2014

We usually think of boiled meat as a by-product of making broth, a humble if comforting dish for parsimonious souls.

15 January 2014

We’re an old fashioned household in many ways. In the cooler months, making broth is a Sunday afternoon ritual in

28 July 2012

Grilled vegetables are fantastic, but almost equally popular for a light Italian summer meal are mixed boiled vegetables (or even better, steamed)

8 July 2012

I love potato salad in summer but, variety being the spice of life, I like to shake things up a

21 October 2009

Waste not, want not, they old saying goes. There are a myriad of old recipes in the Italian repertoire for