Menu du jour primi piatti : 135 Recipes


  • Recipe Zuppa di porri
    Zuppa di porri (1 vote)
    'Tis the season for soups! When the temperatures dive, there is simply nothing that takes the chill off like soup. The wonderful thing about soups is their enormous variety: they can be thick and stick-to-the-ribs, whole meals in[...]
  • Recipe Chicons au gratin
    Chicons au gratin (1 vote)
    There's something about chilly weather that demands a nice gratin?that piping-hot, cheesy, gooey goodness is just the thing to warm your body and soul on a mid-Autumn evening. And here is one that is sure to satisfy: another Belgian classic,[...]
  • Recipe How to make broth
    How to make broth (1 vote)
    Making broth is so easy to do, and the results are so wonderful and so almost infinitely useful, I really don't understand why it's almost disappeared from home cooking. Well, actually, I can guess: fewer and fewer people cook anything at all,[...]
  • Recipe Pizzoccheri alla valtellinese
    Pizzoccheri alla valtellinese (1 vote)
    Nothing says 'winter' to me like this Alpine buckwheat pasta dish oozing with melted cheese and winter vegetables, a typical dish of the Valtellina in the uppermost stretches of Lombardia, a fairly narrow valley region running northeast[...]
  • Recipe Lasagna con broccoli e salsiccia piccante
    Lasagna con broccoli e salsiccia piccante (1 vote)
    Può darsi che la mania della sfoglia mi stia contagiando o sarà che qui in Emilia la sfoglia è una tradizione, ma ultimamente mi sto appassionando a questi veli che racchiudono come scrugni le bontà più varie. Certo tirarla a mano è tutta[...]
  • Recipe Linguine con alici
    Linguine con alici (1 vote)
    Here's another quick and easy dish for those days when you don't really feel like cooking but you want to eat something tasty. It's a riff off of the classic ajo e ojo with anchovies. Start as you would for aglio, olio e[...]
  • Recipe Zitoni al forno con le polpettine
    Zitoni al forno con le polpettine (2 votes)
    If baked pappardelle with radicchio is a good example of a northern Italian baked pasta dish, baked ziti, as this dish is known in English, typifies the southern Italian approach, and more specifically the Neapolitan approach, so much so, in[...]
  • Recipe Tubetti cacio e uova
    Tubetti cacio e uova (1 vote)
    Here's a great spur-of-the-moment Neapolitan pasta dish for a quick weeknight dinner or perhaps a midnight snack: Boil some tubetti (the small tube-like pasta also known as ditali or ditalini ) in well-salted water. When the pasta[...]
  • Recipe Pasta e fagioli
    Pasta e fagioli (1 vote)
    Pasta e fagioli , or pasta and beans, which goes by the amusing nickname 'pasta fazool' in Italian-American slang, is one of the most internationally famous dishes in the entire Italian repertoire.  It is, however, a victim of its[...]
  • Recipe Canederli
    Canederli
    Canederli is the Italian name given to the bread dumplings so popular in Austria and other parts of central Europe, known in German as Semmelknödl or just knödel . During my years in Vienna it was one of my favorite things to eat, so[...]