Polenta with porcini mushrooms is one of the most comforting and iconic dishes of Northern Italian cuisine.Creamy, rustic and deeply aromatic, this recipe brings together trifolati porcini mushrooms—sautéed with Extra…
Sbrisolona is a very plain rustic cake made with almonds and maize flour, covered also with whole almonds. It is a traditional cake from Mantua, a city located in Lombardy,…
This fulfilling dish very rich in butter, cheese, potato and cabbage is called Pizzoccheri, pronounced ‘pizzo-kke-ree’, a tagliatelle-alike short pasta with a porous and rustic texture made from buckwheat flour.…
This traditional stale bread cake is called Torta Paesana and has a dense and moist soft texture. Nowadays, some also add crumbled Amaretti biscuits or even candied fruit or pine…
Stale bread should never be thrown away since it can be turned into an easy-to-make cake ideal for breakfast or for an afternoon snack. It is typical in every Italian…
