http://www.notonlypizza.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:01:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I had friends over for dinner and I prepared a typical meal from Calabria, the region where I often go on vacation. The menu was as follows: fried eggplants balls, pasta with 'nduja, Pecorino cheese and onion marmalade, but up until the last minute I didn't know what ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/08/13/cassata-alla-siciliana-to-go/ In these days I'm in a ricotta kind of mood, so today I prepared this savory cake for dinner. I used sheep milk ricotta, which I prefer to the cow milk ricotta, and fresh zucchini just picked from the garden. A little gift from our neighbor. I tried to make ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/08/06/eggless-ricotta-and-zucchini-cake/ In the last few days I thought summer was going to end sooner but finally it warmed up again so instead of thinking about polenta and spezzatino I chose to prepare this tasty summer salad with vegetables and kamut berries. I've been eating Kamut products for quite a while now ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/07/29/kamut-salad-with-vegetables/ Friggitelli or friarelli (friarelli is a word also used for cime di rapa) are small sweet light green Italian peppers.  They have an irregular shape not to be confused with conical shape peppers and they are not hybrids either.  They are a very common variety originally from Campania. The ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/07/20/frigittelli-fried-sweet-green-peppers/ I know it has been a long time since I have posted on my blog but between work and the really hot weather I've been "out of order" for awhile, but I'm here again full of energy and ready to go. Last month I read an interesting article published in ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/07/14/fruit-vegetables-healthy-local-and-organic/ Summer season is getting closer, actually it's already here in Italy and cooking becomes more difficult with warm weather. I'm always searching for quick and refreshing meals to prepare so thought I'd collect some traditional Italian dishes that we all eat in Italy during summer season for you ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/06/02/quick-summer-meals-italian-style/ This week I bought zucchini with their flowers still attached because I wanted to prepare risotto with zucchini flowers. Risotto came out really good so I published it on my site Cooking with Patty. I was going to cook the zucchini with onions and olive oil (zucchini in tegame) ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/05/24/zucchini-salad/ I started using millet few years ago when my doctor told me to eliminate wheat from my diet for awhile and since then I developed some recipes that now are part of my family's eating habits. I was also very surprised that when I introduced solids in my baby's ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/05/05/baked-millet-with-squash/ Every year in Pigozzo, a small village about 10 kilometres from Verona, they celebrate the Festa della sparasina, the Wild Asparagus Festival. Sparasina is the word in dialect for Asparagus Acutifolius from the family of Liliaceae. These wild asparagus grow spontaneously in the woods and close to rivers between April ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/04/28/la-festa-della-sparasina/ It's spring, warm weather, flowers blooming or at least I thought it was spring. In the last few days it has been cold again so I decided to allow myself one last winter treat, I bought Mostarda Di Cremona: whole fruits in a sweet syrupy sauce spiced up with few ... http://www.notonlypizza.com/2008/04/16/echoes-of-winter-mostarda/