Cantucci: here’s a great recipe for a typical Italian cookies, with our Sara’s Cantucci Abruzzesi version. Originally from Tuscany, (also called “Prato biscuits”), their peculiarity is the double cooking: “bis-cuit”.
… Sweet Recipe: Sara’s Cantucci Abruzzesi
In Sara’s dishes local produce (from Abruzzi Region) are always at the center of her recipes. Here’s one of them: the Altino Sweet Pepper, a key ingredient in her Red Spaghetti alla Chitarra, also a typical pasta from the Italian Central-Eastern Region.
… Altino Sweet Peppers and Sara’s Guitar Pasta
On cold winter days a nice hot soup it’s what we need. And, if among the ingredients of this Villalba Lentils and Romanesco Broccoli Soup there are the rich in nutrients lentils and broccoli, we have all the requisites for a delightfully healthy comfort food dish.
… Easy Recipe: Villalba Lentils and Romanesco Broccoli Soup
It is truly a wonderful experience spending Christmas in New York. Here’s my journal of the Holidays Season in the city.
… My Christmas in New York
Here’s Sara’s second Parrozzo recipe [par-ròz-zo], the typical Abruzzo Christmas cake. This time she used almonds, red fruits and ratafià (i.e. wild cherry liquor), coated with white chocolate.
… Sweet Recipe: Almond, Candied Fruits and Ratafià Liqueur Mini Parrozzi
On December 25th, the Christmas broth is a must-eat dish on the Abruzzo tables. It takes a long time to prepare, it requires many ingredients, but you can make it ahead of time.
… Recipe: “The Scrippelle” – Savory Crêpes Surprise
The Parrozzo [par-ròz-zo] according to the Abruzzo native Gabriele D’Annunzio, a famous Italian writer and poet, after testing the chef Luigi D’Amico’s bake: “This new cake is so tasty that looks like saint Cetteo’s craze, as if he put the rich and fertile earth into your oven, and there it slowly changes into the sweetest among any other sweet thing.”
… Sweet Recipe: Almond & Pistachios Mini Parrozzi
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