chicken Archives

Piccata di pollo (Chicken Piccata)

30 April 2022

Scaloppine dishes are some of the most quintessential everyday secondi piatti in the Italian repertoire. Thin slices of meat are […]

6 March 2021

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

24 October 2020

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

2 May 2020

I’ve always been puzzled by the popularity that chicken breasts enjoy, in particular here in the US. If you ask

27 April 2019

The Italian cooking term fricassea is a bit of a false friend for English or French speakers. Like a fricassée,

2 February 2019

Pollo in potacchio is braised chicken dish that hails from Le Marche, a region that sadly I never got to

19 August 2017

Pollo al mattone, which I would translate roughly as “chicken under a brick”, is an ingenuous way of grilling chicken.

18 March 2017

In Italian Food, the 1954 book that introduced the English to real Italian cookery, Elizabeth David includes a recipe for petti

10 October 2016

Memorie di Angelina is a blog about the home cooking of continental Italy. But as our regular readers will know,