Mar

7

Minestrone: food for the soul

March 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

Minestrone is the Italian word for vegetable soup. Vegetables are cut in small pieces, and to make it tastier a soffritto is added. Soffritto is the base for a lot of Italian dishes. It consists of a small amount of vegetables, thinly chopped and saute in few spoons of olive oil or butter. The vegetables [...]

Jul

20

Spezzatino di soia

July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

Texture vegetable protein (TVP) or, textured soy protein as it’s called in English, sounds like a chemical by-product. In Italian it has a better name, bocconcini di soia , soy chunks. What is TVP exactly? Textured soy protein is a food product made from soybeans. It’s produced from soy flour after the soybean oil has [...]

Dec

20

Pandoro or Panettone for Christmas

December 20, 2008 | 6 Comments

In December stores are buried with goodies of every kind either you have a precise idea of what to buy or you’ll get lost in them for hours, picking, choosing and changing your mind about a hundred times. There’s one thing that all the Italians will buy and that is pandoro or panettone, our Italian [...]

Oct

7

Ending on a sweet note

October 7, 2008 | 4 Comments

I’m back home I feel a little bit sad but I had a wonderful vacation. The weather has been almost perfect I didn’t recall such a warm sea in September, a real delight for a person who is always cold like me. I rested, relaxed and now I’m ready to face the cold winter full [...]

Sep

10

Jewel from Calabria: ‘Nduja

September 10, 2008 | 9 Comments

I’m in Tropea right now enjoying my holidays. I first came here 27 years ago, our family’s first vacation in the South of Italy. When I saw Tropea, called the pearl of Calabria, I fell desperately in love with the town. This place entered in my blood and I’m still not able to spend one [...]

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