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Menu du jour authentic traditional recipes : 26 Recipes


  • Recipe Revival of Traditional Mexican Dishes
    Revival of Traditional Mexican Dishes
    Tikin Xik   This was one of my favorite dishes from our vacation. After spending a good part of the day taking our daughter all over the resort to look at parrots, cockatoos, flamingos and canaries, oh my! we were beaten by the heat and[...]
  • Recipe Vegetarian summer menu idea
    Vegetarian summer menu idea
    This is our last menu idea with cold and hot summer recipes made only with vegetables but with eggs and cheese too. It is a classical dinner menu or lunch menu composed by a starter ( filled aubergines ), a first course ( pasta salad with[...]
  • Recipe Rice and peas, Italian-style
    Rice and peas, Italian-style
    Hi, it’s time of peas, sweet and tender, typical of these months. In Italy we are used to cook them in a lot of ways. For example they are the main ingredients of many soups. Do you know risi & bisi? in other words rice and peas?[...]
  • Recipe Italian fried olives or Ascolana olives
    Italian fried olives or Ascolana olives
    Hi, visiting Marche region (Italy) on our last Easter holidays Carlo and I ate the well known Ascolana olives  that is stuffed and fried green olives. How yummy they are! You have to eat them seldom for frying – especially deep frying –[...]
  • Recipe The art of Italian cooking: pesto sauce
    The art of Italian cooking: pesto sauce
    Hi, this is the thirteenth post about Italian cuisine. Today’s post is dedicated to pesto sauce.  Why pesto sauce if the last posts were about Italian pasta recipes? For pesto sauce is used in Italy to toss a lot of pasta shapes: trenette,[...]
  • Recipe Italian menu ideas: a spring dinner party
    Italian menu ideas: a spring dinner party
    Hi, Carlo and I want to share with you  two fantastic recipes we prepared last night for our dinner menu. Artichoke egg casserole and anchovy-flavored fava beans . Artichoke egg casserole Taste this fantastic dish. For the best result[...]
  • Recipe The art of Italian cooking: Ligurian trofie
    The art of Italian cooking: Ligurian trofie
    Hi, this is the fifteenth post about the art of Italian cooking. Today we want to tell you about another pesto sauce recipe. Pesto sauce is an authentic  recipe from Liguria.  In Italy we use it to toss pasta, gnocchi,  lasagne and pizza as we[...]
  • Recipe The art of Italian cooking: Bolognese sauce
    The art of Italian cooking: Bolognese sauce
    Hi, this is the twenty seventh entry about the art of cooking  Italian pasta. Yesterday we showed you how to prepare a fantastic lasagna dish made with a green sauce. Today’s entry is dedicated to people who love red sauce made with meat[...]
  • Recipe Tuscan soup with vegetables, pulses and meat
    Tuscan soup with vegetables, pulses and meat
    Hi, today’s post is dedicated to a fantastic soup made with spring ingredients. Do you know how tasty are artichokes, asparagus, fava beans, peas and meat cooked together? Taste this soup as it is made in Tuscany at Lucca. Its name is[...]
  • Recipe The art of Italian cooking: hare pappardelle
    The art of Italian cooking: hare pappardelle
    Hi, this is the thirty sixth entry about the art of cooking Italian pasta. We want to show you another tasty Italian recipe made with fresh egg pasta: pappardelle tossed with hare sauce . Pappardelle with hare sauce Pappardelle is a[...]