meat Archives

Ragù alla bolognese (Bolognese Sauce)

13 December 2009

One of the most famous sauces in all of Italian cookery, ragù alla bolognese—known in English as Bolognese Sauce—is one […]

13 December 2009

As we’ve mentioned before on this blog, Saturday is tripe day in Rome… sabato trippa, as the saying goes. The

25 November 2009

When one thinks of Tuscan cooking, one of the first dishes that comes to mind—along with such icons as fagioli

25 November 2009

Making homemade broth is so easy to do, and the results are so wonderful and so almost infinitely useful, I

21 November 2009

Perhaps the most emblematic dish of the cuisine of Lombardy, the northern Italian region of which Milan is the capital,

20 November 2009

A friend recently gave me a gift of fregola (also called fregula), a typical Sardinian pasta very similar to Israeli couscous.

6 November 2009

Here’s a neat idea for a really quick and savory pasta whenever you happen to be cooking a roast veal,

1 November 2009

I first read about this simple recipe for Pork Loin Braised in Milk in Marcella Hazan‘s first cookbook The Classic Italian

21 October 2009

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