Sweet Aubergine Rolls with Chocolate and Fresh Cheese
We get it: it sounds weird to mix aubergines and chocolate, and we were the first to doubt it before cooking the Aubergine Chocolate Cake from Amalfi, a city in…
6 Tips & Tricks for a Perfect, Crunchy Breading
Achieving a restaurant-quality breading in one’s small kitchen is never easy: sometimes the breadcrumbs don’t stick, sometimes the breading is too thick, or it burns in the pan before the…
Crudaiola – Raw Tomato Pasta Sauce
Crudaiola is a play on the more common term pizzaiola, which indicates the tomato sauce normally used for pizza; because crudo is the Italian word for raw, the crudaiola is…
Chestnut Crêpes with Ricotta & Persimmon Cream
These delicious crêpes, also known in Italian as crespelle, are an original conclusion to a rich and filling Christmas dinner. Scrummy and very light, these crêpes are naturally sweetened by…
Sicilian Maccheroni with “alla Norma” Sauce
The Pasta alla Norma is a recipe typical of Catania, a big city in Sicily. Norma, an Italian female name, is also the title of a particularly beautiful and appreciated…