2024-04-21 12:29
Tonnarelli are square-shaped noodles crafted with eggs, white flour and semolina. This traditional pasta hails from Molise and Abruzzo and is widely enjoyed in Rome, where it's served with c… Read More
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A Kitchen with a View
2024-03-17 19:03
A delicate and light recipe for lasagna rosettes filled with Pecorino and Parmigiano cheese, baked to perfection and served with a drizzle of honey.
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2024-02-11 15:55
A delightful fennel and orange salad with black olives, bursting with Mediterranean flavors. The recipe features crisp, thinly sliced fennel ribbons, paired harmoniously with juicy orange we… Read More
2024-01-14 14:32
Hello my friends, how have you been? I cooked too much during the holidays and, of course, I made myself quite tired. It was all worth it though. I so enjoyed the company of family and of th… Read More
2023-11-26 16:30
This is an easy recipe for soft and light Italian broccoli flan (sformatini) served on a delicious Parmesan cream sauce. A perfect appetizer for the holidays and any dinner party!
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2023-11-04 14:20
Deliciously vegetarian, this roasted butternut squash lasagna is light and flavourful with delicate layers of melted cheese.
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2023-10-14 12:27
Easy and quick to make, this Roman classic pasta sauce recipe has only 3 main ingredients: medium aged Pecorino Romano cheese, black pepper corns and pasta!
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2023-09-11 13:38
Sweet bell peppers are so good for you because they are rich in vitamins and healthy nutrients. Try this simple salad made with grilled peppers soaked in an aromatic extra-virgin olive oil d… Read More
2021-07-10 11:16
Enjoy this easy and quick chicken breast stir fried with tomato, capers and olives. The recipe is inspired to the famous puttanesca pasta recipe and makes a great summer meal.
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2021-05-02 21:20
Spaghetti with fresh fava beans & guanciale is a traditional recipe for the spring in Central Italy. An easy sauce which makes great use of broad beans just arrived in the markets.
The p… Read More
2021-03-27 11:17
A light and easy to make strawberry dessert for Easter which requires no baking and tastes fantastic! happy Easter! Read More
2021-02-13 14:49
An easy sausage and white cannellini bean casserole that can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. Add a healthy dose of steamed greens for extra color and texture.
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2021-02-13 14:49
An easy sausage and white cannellini bean casserole that can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. Add a healthy dose of steamed greens for extra color and texture Read More
2020-12-19 17:22
These ring-shaped Christmas cookies are a simplified version of the sweet fruit breads made in Umbria for holidays and celebrations. Simple and rustic they are great for dunking in your favo… Read More
2020-11-14 14:29
My second cookbook "Festa Italiana" is published! Read all about it and enjoy a colorful bowl of chickpea soup to celebrate!
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2020-11-14 14:29
My second cookbook "Festa Italiana" is published! Read all about it and enjoy a colorful bowl of chickpea soup to celebrate! Read More
2020-07-19 09:54
Spaghetti with carbonara sauce is a classic and easy Italian dish, made by coating pasta in a creamy sauce of eggs, cheese, cured pork, and black pepper. Carbonara served with a few slices o… Read More
2020-07-19 08:54
Spaghetti with carbonara sauce is a classic and easy Italian dish, made by coating pasta in a creamy sauce of eggs, cheese, cured pork, and black pepper. Carbonara served with a few slices o… Read More
2020-04-11 17:20
These delicate, paper thin pancakes are filled with asparagus, ricotta and prosciutto which you can substitute with smoked cheese for a vegetarian version. You can also make them gluten free… Read More
2020-02-15 13:05
Bring your fruitcake and biscotti to the next level with this simple recipe for candied citron. Homemade candied fruit is vastly superior to store bought one and, as an added bonus, you can… Read More
2020-01-12 08:49
This quintessential Italian pork loin roast (maiale al latte) will become one of your go to recipes for a dinner party. Cooked in a mixture of wine, herbs and milk is light and creamy at th… Read More
2019-12-08 19:37
Have you ever wondered what do with leftover cereal? Make these super easy, delightful, light cookies, good for the Holidays and at any other time of the year Read More
2019-11-09 09:42
Creamy butternut squash risotto, a perfect for comfort recipe for autumn. Carnaroli rice, slowly cooked in broth, with onion, braised squash, white wine, butter, rosemary, orange peel, pance… Read More
2019-09-28 15:32
A classic zucchini and tomato gratin is a perfect vegetarian dish to celebrate the end of summer and to welcome fall Read More
2019-07-07 13:58
This hearty pasta dish is mixed with chunks of fantastic Umbrian sausage sausage and lightened up with lentils and wild fennel. It’s then topped with dollops of white sauce and a sprin… Read More
2019-06-05 06:44
Homemade licorice gelato recipe using milk and cream infused with pure licorice, a unique and very intense flavor Read More
2019-04-14 20:59
Hello my friends, how are you? is it already spring where you live? my rosemaries are clouds of purple at the moment ❤ Once again I am back from a wonderful, two weeks visit to the US… Read More
2019-03-03 15:31
A traditional recipe belonging to the Jewish Roman cuisine, artichokes alla Romana are slowly braised in olive oil with garlic, parsley, and mint Read More
2019-01-27 14:39
An easy risotto recipe, perfect for winter. Carnaroli rice, slowly cooked in vegetable broth, with diced Asiago cheese, grilled radicchio, white wine, butter, Parmesan and parsley Read More
2018-12-18 13:07
Happy Holidays my friends! I hope you are preparing for days filled with delicious food, family, friends. Above all I wish you a few moments of rest and relaxation in whichever way… Read More
2018-11-11 12:25
Hello dear friends, how are you? at Alla Madonna del Piatto we are finally at the end of the season and enjoying the first few days of rest and free time after a very busy fall. It was so b… Read More
2018-09-09 07:23
Hello my friends how are you? Have you had a lovely summer?
While the North of Europe has suffered crazy high temperatures this year, we have had one of the mildest summers in ages. I can&r&helli…Read More
2018-06-23 15:05
Hello my friends, how are you?
It’s summer here, drop dead gorgeous, with clear blue skies, breezy and not too hot. Umbria is dressed in flowers this June.
I am so very glad that fin… Read More
2018-04-22 09:31
the April grass: you can almost see it growing.Do you also have the feeling that spring is never coming? I start to be spring-obsessed around the first 10 days of March. By then, I am so re… Read More
2018-03-03 21:11
One of the funniest statements I have heard from a guest in over 15 years of teaching about food and cooking is the following:
“I have realized I need to have a relation with a butche… Read More
2017-12-09 20:41
Do you remember passionately wanting a unique Christmas gift as a child?
One of my first gift-related memories is about wishing a blue teddy bear for Christmas. It must have been 1971… Read More
2017-10-29 18:10
This month has been mellow and nostalgic as it’s often in October in Umbria. While still reeling after a summer of record-high temperatures, we have enjoyed a string of magnificent su… Read More
2017-09-24 19:47
Sometime I wish to have a year that is entirely made of September. This is especially true after the record high temperature of this past summer.
However this month is always my favorite as… Read More
2017-08-06 20:33
My quest to unlock the secrets of Umbria’s rural culture, traditions and foods often gives me the opportunity of new and interesting explorations. Nothing makes me happier than s… Read More
2017-07-16 11:07
the Umbrian summer right nowI remember being on a plane a long time ago, probably on my way to a conference or other project abroad. The gentlemen on my left side was flying somewhere to emb… Read More
2017-05-29 14:51
Hi dear friends, how are you? I hope spring is treating you well wherever you happen to be. Spring is in full swing here in Umbria and more gorgeous than ever.
As for myself, these are the… Read More
2017-04-15 20:40
Easter in Umbria is not for those with a delicate constitution. A cheese-egg-meat-wine-chocolate binge starts at 9 am on Easter Sunday with breakfast and ends into a food induced coma somet… Read More
2017-02-05 14:46
San Lorenzo, Sant’Ercolano and San Costanzo sculpted in the XIV century grand entrance portal of Perugia’s city hall, Palazzo dei Priori.(For the US Book Tour announcement, pleas… Read More
2016-12-04 09:34
Dear friends how are you?
Are you also looking back at this year that once again is almost gone, and thinking: wow, it’s good to be here.
I do, despite everything.
The economy, the cr… Read More
2016-10-09 21:08
It’s that time of the year when one day you wake up and suddenly, summer is gone. Our magical mountain is as green as ever. It’s been raining more than usual this year so the fie… Read More
2016-08-21 20:25
no need for the beach if you are on an Umbrian mountainAugust is a long, slow month in Umbria. Most of the world seems to be somewhere else. Italians flock to the beach and everybody else be… Read More
2016-06-07 21:44
fresh “paglia e fieno” pappardelle pasta with pioppini mushrooms (recipe below)There seems to be a sizable number of people who abstain from pasta for health reasons. For an Ital… Read More
2016-06-07 21:44
Happy Spring from Umbria!There seems to be a sizable number of people who abstain from pasta for health reasons. For an Italian, this is obviously a hardly practicable way of conduct.
In add… Read More
2016-05-08 20:18
homemade pizza: how to test your ingredients and develop your own recipePizza night in this house never goes unnoticed. The event has been planned in advance. Most likely we have just b… Read More
2016-04-24 12:54
Setting up my first US cookbook signing at Caffè Umbria in SeattleWhat a wonderful and different springtime I have had this year! I am back from the most exciting book tour i… Read More
2016-03-24 23:20
Thick, luxurious slabs of levened Torta di Pasqua are served at every meal during the Easter festivities in Umbria.
When I was a child in the late 1960s many homes, including the one of my U… Read More
2016-02-07 20:56
A cross-regional recipe, Umbrian stringozzi and Amatriciana sauce, a marriage made in heaven!
About a year ago, in an evening like tonight, I was painstakingly working on the final version o… Read More
2015-12-14 22:06
looking for a dessert idea for the holidays? how about tiramisu with pears, a wine syrup and lots of spices for a delightful seasonal treat?
Of all the recipes which I have painstakingly co… Read More
2015-12-14 22:06
looking for a dessert idea for the holidays? how about tiramisu with pears, a wine syrup and lots of spices for a delightful seasonal treat?
Of all the recipes which I have painstaki… Read More
2015-11-23 18:05
An Umbrian traditional fruitcake, brustengolo is a healthy snack made with polenta flour, lots of nuts and dried fruit. It has the colors and the flavors of fall.
This is a very rustic and a… Read More
2015-10-27 17:12
As you probably know Italians have a long tradition of eating vegan food. You didn’t know it? Well, think about it: spaghetti with aglio, olio and peperoncino is vegan. Minestrone is… Read More
2015-09-27 19:49
After a fairly wet spring and a blazing hot summer, Italian wine-makers have high expectations for their wines. Grape harvest is finished and wineries are enveloped in fermentation vapours… Read More
2015-09-01 21:20
delicate, melt in the mouth tiramisu with a heart of sweet white peaches
I don’t know how a fruit can be so exotic and still grow here, not too far from my magical mountain. I adore pe… Read More
2015-07-22 09:49
summer in a dish, the real Umbrian panzanella
If you ask a food writer who is worth her(his) salt what “authentic” Italian food really is, she will tell you that “authentic… Read More
2015-06-15 08:50
deliciously satisfying stuffed pepper rolls
In my life there are happy peppers and sad peppers. At a first sight they look quite the same, but they are false brothers. The sad peppers are th… Read More
2015-05-03 07:29
My first book signing here at Alla Madonna del Piatto after this year’s first cooking class. I was so thrilled! (photo Kara Buchner)
What a month this has been! I can’t believe m… Read More
2015-03-30 11:20
If you are my FB friend you probabaly already know this, there has been quite an online celebration in the last few days!
After 13 years as pans and pots manager of my somewhat public kitch… Read More
2015-03-04 21:41
a lovely vegetarian dinner, crunchy, gluten-free, light!
Do you already make spinach pie? If you don’t, you must hurry as this is the simplest one-dish dinner you can make besides a pl… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Cooking for me is all about sharing. I have never been alone as long as I have been able to share a meal. That’s in fact how I made most friends in my life, around the stove-top and ar… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Quick? Did I say quick? No, I didn’t. I do however say divine, comforting, luscious, creamy, heart warming. Making a good polenta is a bit like making love. Slow and careful is general… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Auguri! Happy Holidays and peace to all my friends and family. A special thought to all those who are alone, or ill or feeling sad. May the future bring you kindness, hope and relief… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Pasta al forno (baked pasta) is to Italy what macaroni and cheese is to the rest of the world. In the good, homemade, festive way, not – heaven forbid – in the Kraft dinner way… Read More
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