Original Ilalian name: Tiella Alla Barese
Place of origin: Puglia, Sourthern Italy
Coming back to the Italian blog, I wish to share today one of the recently cooked main dishes. I would estimate this dish to the First course dishes category or Primi like said in Italy. However, this meal is slightly unusual for this group. Firstly, because it doesn’t include pasta as one of the main ingredients. Instead of pasta, here are rice and potatoes and even mussels. To be honest, I am not a fan of rice, and can’t eat it every day like pasta, but the result of my first experiment was a good-looking and good-tasting meal.
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Tagged as:
First courses,
Mussels,
Potato,
Primi,
rice
Original Italian name: Tonno Alla Palermitana
Place of origin: Sicily, Southern Italy
In Sicily, Southern part of Italy, The Mattanza is the traditional method of tuna fishing. This event provides an occasion for the whole village to celebrate a folklore festival. This major tradition gets underway with an morning mass to bless the fishing boats before they sail out with nets. Singing old folk songs as they work, the fishermen start setting up the various corrals of netting in which the tuna will be trapped.
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fish,
Italian recipes,
Main courses,
Southern Italy
Original Italian name: Caponata
Place of origin: Sicily, Southern Italy
Caponata is a typical Sicilian name of one of vegetable dishes with a long and colourful past. Originally, this dish started life as a fish, served in the caupone in taverns around Sicily’s ports. It consisted of squid, celery and eggplants and served with a sweet-and-sour-cream. [Read more…]
Tagged as:
Italian recipes,
Salad,
Side dishes,
Southern Italy,
Vegetables
I kept quiet for awhile in my blog but keen to get back to my Italian cooking adventures. I just returned from Fiji holidays where experienced broad variety of different seafood based dishes. Inspired by that and searching through similar Fijian style recipes for dinner I decided to prepare an absolutely simple and gorgeous ad-hoc green salad with prawns for lunch.
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Tagged as:
Italian recipes,
Salad,
Seafood,
Tomato
Original Italian name: Pasta Alfredo
Pasta with Cream & Parmesan is one of the popular classic Italian recipes originated from Rome. This pasta recipe is incredibly simple and quick to make that gives attractiveness of cooking it for an ordinary midweek lunch or dinner.
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Tagged as:
First courses,
Italian recipes,
Pasta,
Pasta sauce
Original Italian name: Tiella di Verdure
Place of origin: Apulia, Puglia (Southern Italy)
Every time when I cook something from Italian cuisine I know exactly the taste of the dish promise to be rewarding the effort.
This time I decided to cook new vegetables dish which I am completely unaware of the final result. I have various vegetables in the fridge and though to give them a go in a baked form of using the recipe from Southern Italy Puglia.
I tend to cook usually following the original Italian recipe but this time felt confident enough to make a bit of my own interpretation.
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Tagged as:
Italian recipes,
Southern Italy,
Tomato,
Vegetables,
Zucchini
