Recipes from Italy
from Maremma in Tuscany and Lazio
These recipes from Italy are from undiscovered Maremma in Tuscany and Lazio. Here traditional peasant foods, based upon simple seasonal ingredients, still dominate the family tables and restaurant menus and for good reason. For they are wholesome foods, packed full of flavour and with very little to worry you with regards to eating healthly.
In many cases the recipes for these "povero" (poor man's) foods require many hours of slow cooking not only to bring out the full flavour, but also to make the most of less expensive cuts of meat or cereals available each month.
Every grandmother and many mothers that I know in Maremma - and in wider Tuscany - still spend a whole morning shopping for and then preparing the days lunch and dinner.
So be prepared that some of these recipes will require more than a little attention: straightforward initial preparation, but some stirring or turning over the stove thereafter. But I can tell you that family and friends will love these dishes and ask you to make them again and again... And you won't be breaking the bank to do so: these dishes are very economical.
But in Maremma you will also find everyday Italian recipes that require little skill or cooking experience and which are quick to make, but are equally packed full of mouthwatering flavours. Thank goodness for those of us with little skill in the kitchen or desire to spend hours there! and a family to feed well. I can honestly admit that my culinary skills for many years didn't go beyond tearing the seal off a ready meal and opening the microwave or oven door! But even this woman can manage these recipes without trouble! All you need are a few ingredients ready in the fridge or cupboard.
Recipes from Italy:
Finding what you are looking for
I have divided these "recipes from Italy - from Maremma" into a number of sections. As I write-up the recipes you will find:
- recipes by food types such as appetizers, bread, soup, pasta, chicken, sausage, dessert, cake, pastry, cookies, chocolate...
- easy Italian recipes - the maximum three step variety, some quick and some of the all morning variety!
- everyday Italian recipes - in this section I have put those that are easy and quick (the 20 - 30 minutes variety from opening the fridge door to eating)!
- authentic Italian recipes - the traditional centuries old Maremman dishes that every grandmother has taught her daughter
- Italian restaurant recipes - recipes that I have eaten many times at my favourite Maremma restaurants and they have kindly shared with me
- and, festive and celebration recipes for Easter, Christmas, and weddings.
As is the nature of things in life, some recipes will fall into more than one section.
The Recipes from Maremma
Authentic Italian Dessert Recipes
OK, I know that recipe books always put the desserts at the end, but I have a sweet tooth and am one of those people who check out the puddings in a restaurant menu before deciding on what to order! So my collection of Italian dessert recipes come first here! The first of which is this wonderful treat based on a honey and walnuts that will disappear before your very eyes... authentic Italian dessert recipes No. 1 Sfratto dei Goym |
Bruschetta Recipes
Bruschetta is one of my favourite Italian foods and one of the very easiest to make. At the heart of every bruschetta recipe is toasted Tuscan bread topped with one or a few quality ingredients, in simple combinations, with salt and pepper: simple but sublime food. Usually served on small rounds of bread as an antipasti, bruschetta also makes for a truely wonderful lunch on a hot summers day. Two of my favourites are the very simplest: in the height of summer when the tomatoes in Maremma are abundant, bruschetta with chopped "pomordorini", basil, a generous drizzle of virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. And in the winter, when the new olive oil is just coming from the press, bruschetta with just that. Mouthwatering foods... Enjoy these Italian bruschetta recipes from Maremma |
The Best Italian Cookie Recipes
The Italian biscotti recipes from Maremma: This almond biscotti recipe is our Nonnis (Grandmothers') old family "biscotti Cantuccini" recipe and is simply the best biscotti recipe for almond biscotti. |
Olive Oil Mayonnaise
For lovers of mayonnaise: no shop brought mayonaisse can compare to homemade mayonnaise and homemade olive oil mayonnaise is no exception. |
Favourite Italian Cookbooks
For everyday Italian cooking recipe books you cannot go wrong with these, both written by Italian chefs they are two of my personal favourites - Italian cook books.
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