Haricot beans (Haricot is the french word for ‘bean’) are another staple of Italian cooking. The most popular varities include the pretty red-and cream speckled borlotti, the small one cannellini and black-eyed beans. All these are used in stews, with pasta and in soups, and borlotti and cannellini are often served as a side dish simply flavoured with extra virgin olive oil.
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Coming back to My-Italian-Cooking, I ‘m posting today a recipe of making flavoured sauce – Shallots with Rosemary Oil, that I used recently as a BBQ sauce for lamb. It’s a simple version of Italian sauces which can be used widely in Italian and French cuisine.
Flavoured oils make an interesting alternative to vinaigrette and other sauces when used to dress a wide variety of dishes. They can be suitable for steamed, sauteed and grilled dishes, but they can be used with cold foods as well. The simplest way to flavour an oil is putting some of the flavouring ingredients in the oil and let it stand until the oil has taken enough the flavour.
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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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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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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…]
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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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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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