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I have always considered Orecchiette Pugliesi one of the most difficult shapes to make. In the small towns of Puglia it is common to see women...

Two males I saw it, I bought it. I thought: I will cook it the way my father would have cooked it. Alive: all crustaceans must be. I had to taste...

Today Cacciucco Livornese in the Portuguese Cataplana. More fusion than that.. The cataplana is a Portuguese pot, made of tinned copper. It is about...

One of my first memories about cooking is my grandmother making ravioli on Christmas eve. After dinner, when the rest of the family members had...

A scent, a flavor has the sudden capability to bring us somewhere or some-when and even to make us to dive for an instant  into a specific...

Walking in Florence during the lock down has caused in me a double emotion, although the empty city was chilling and a bit dismal....

The simplest and the most difficult. The web is full of videos, of chefs and housewives who teach them how to make them: everyone has their trick,...

It starts here: a spring day and the joy of poppies. I try again to make pasta with flowers "inside". I would like to get palettes with colors and...

Dear Friends, This is the fifth of the series of newsletters that we are sending every two weeks and…. I have a question today: Do you know how...

A walk along the scenic Giglio. A booty of herbs and flowers. This is one of the recipes that came out of it. Borage leaves, two sprigs (no more) of...

We must not overdo it with carob flour, because its smell is very strong and would end up spoiling the taste. But in the right quantity, it gives an...

Obviously caught in Giglio. Here is the capon fish ( RED SCORPION) These I have already beautifully cleaned, scaled, gutted. I cut them into thick...

Dear Friends, we hope you enjoyed our last newsletter with the recipes of Chicken Breast with almond and lemon. Because of the challenges with...

What is the flavor of winter for you? I had identified my autumn flavor in roastes chestnuts with new red wine...

To say that I cook with what I find at home when I'm at Pellegrino's is…. Make fun of yourself. In this house there are three chest freezers full to...

Today's is the second article on "cooking with what is there". It is the first of a long series. This is the first one:...

I am round and small with a spiny robe the flour is very sweet I come down from the mountain and my name is ........ What a precious treasure is...

I had a title on my old blog post like this: http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2013/02/w-el-sancocho.html I "copy" the recipe here, in case the old...

Molly woke up with the best intentions: just being kind with the new room mates. They met a couple of days before, in the waiting space of a rental...

Ci vuole proprio questo porro qui, tirato su da questa terra, da questo orto coltivato a spalle nude, con la zappa e senza tanta roba chimica. Anzi,...

Semplice, povero, delizioso.Un altro dei piatti geniali dettati dall’arte di arrangiarsi con quello che c’era. Simile a Tria e Triddi, della cucina...

We enter here a spiny matter, with a lot of involvements with personal memories and acquired taste. I would never dress Penne Pasta (short pasta)...

The first ones, at the beginning  shy among the large leaves, then superb, asking for the kiss of  the Tuscan Sun. Pretty in a vase on the...

Apparently easy, the technique of Risotto requires care and many details. First of all, the choice of the rice. It must be a variety belonging to...

.....Discombobulated, when I saw him six years after we met the first time. This is a photo of him in 2012. I also posted something about our...

This is the "Cavolo Nero", litterally "Black Cabbage". It is a variety of Kale. With its "Pretty" and distinct color points out the other "greens"...

Una Siciliana con l'animo tedesco che fa i tortellini non può fare altrimenti che un ripieno di melanzana. Tortellini di melanzana pura, salsa di...

How could it not be?... this crazy weather, the saying runs... .....the global warming...We have a remedy : something in common between western...

The color of the writing is turquoise, becouse turquoise was the color of the table clothes at the Restaurant Le Tamerici. The Restaurant...