Recipes & Pairings

When I think of pangoccioli and the scent of those delicious sandwiches with very soft chocolate chips, I return as a child, at the time I ate the Mulino Bianco Pangoccioli with great gluttony. When I grew up, when I discovered the pleasure of cooking, I completely stopped ...

Wow, it's exactly 23 days since I wrote on my blog and I believe that such a thing has never happened since 2014! Yet I took a break to devote myself to studying, with the promise of a great recovery. Today I took two university exams ...

When you go to the fish shop, the supermarket or your trusted shop, I'm sure you often see fresh squid rings (or "tagliatelle"). A little out of habit we are used to thinking of fried squid rings or breaded squid rings in the oven ....

Roman-style pasta with cacio e pepe is one of the most addicting foods to me. Just yesterday I listened to a lesson on Human Nutrition by prof. Giovannangelo Oriani who explained the difference between hunger and appetite ... in my case I think it is the absolute manifestation of ...

What am I cooking tonight? After a rather stressful day of work spent freaking out behind couriers, I want to prepare a delicious and quick dinner. And since my husband just called me saying he bought fresh Genoese pesto, I ...

An unexpected package that I received from Cantina Blasi thanks to dear Maddalena Mazzeschi. A package that not only encouraged me to visit this company as soon as possible because from the photos it looks really beautiful, but above all it inspired me one of ...

Yesterday I was in the supermarket with my husband and I passed some huge candied fruit. How can you resist? I took the orange peel and I thought of reinterpreting the desert roses original recipe because I really don't like raisins ... and I don't like icing sugar ...

Tonight I wanted to pamper my husband with a delicious dish and, after last night's pumpkin tortelli, I thought of inventing a special filling. I also admit a little empty fridge, since I used an aubergine that had been there for a while, the half tomato heart of ox ...

If you are looking for how to cook mozzarella you can try this delicious comfort food. Mozzarella in carrozza, a typical recipe of Neapolitan cuisine, then spread throughout Campania and also in Lazio. Born at the end of the 800th century to recover leftover mozzarella ...

Pairing food and wine is an obsession for me ... it is no coincidence that my Podcast is called "Red (not) goes well with everything!". I love experimenting with recipes to pair with the wines I get to taste! My summer recipe (but they are also delicious in winter ...

Today in Montisola we shot a documentary for an episode of Geo that will be broadcast on Rai3 next season ... I can't wait to know the date! I represented Monte Isola for the gastronomic part and it was an honor to choose a dish to show. Like this...

Tonight I tasted a wine so good it upsets my editorial calendar. So here I am, talking to you about my Romagna and amazed because a few kilometers from where I was born and where I lived for 30 years there is a crazy wine that I was totally unaware of ...

On Tuesday 18 May my husband Francesco turned 28. Not being able to do great things because I returned home at 21 pm, I opted to prepare a quick and easy dessert for him: the coffee cake! Delicious, it is also perfect as a breakfast! Since Francesco loves ...

For the Ecology and Sustainability exam, where I took a beautiful 30 on March 31, I prepared a paper dedicated to cocoa and pairing with wine, vermouth or distillate. This paper wants to analyze cocoa from its history to its diffusion, from its ...

The day after tomorrow is Easter and despite the delicious dark chocolate egg and pistachio grains that I received, like every year, directly from Bronte, I wanted to prepare a sweet to eat for breakfast on these holidays when Francesco is at home. Yesterday I ...

In a few minutes it's midnight and I spent a beautiful evening that I want to share with you without too many technicalities. My husband has just gone to bed and I, in that sweet post-coitus intoxication, am watching Fifty Shades of Red on Netflix. I'm ...

From today we are back in the red zone and therefore I would say that we have a lot of time to cook. I don't know about you, but I really need sweet cuddles because it's really a difficult time. Then on March 31st I have two exams at the university and, while for one I am super ...

The theme that fascinates me most is certainly that of food and wine pairing. In particular, I love to experiment by creating unexpected but always very reasoned combinations. The theme of pairing red wine and fish is something that has been taking hold since ...

On Friday afternoon I received a beautiful package from Tuscany from the Caiarossa winery which contained, among the various wines, a jar of very fresh tomato sauce, durum wheat spaghetti from the biodynamic organic farm "Il Cerreto" by Carlo Boni ...

Yesterday I took the History of Enogastronomy exam and I got 30 and praise! I studied a lot also because it is my favorite subject and the course - held by the good Francesca Romana Barberini (Professor of History of Enogastronomy - was beautiful, with ...

In my article "Women of wine and criticism: you really broke my ... bread sticks!" (which reached 5.000 visitors in a single day) I told you how heartbroken I was waiting for the next day to taste that delicious savory pie I had just ...

One of the things I cook best are cookies: I love creating and perfecting recipes to pair with my favorite sweet and fortified wines. Since I am a lover of Porto and from my mom I found a bottle of Porto Ruby Reserve Sottovoce di ...

If I think of Christmas in the family, I think of that lunch around my grandparents' table, me and my cousin Marco at the head of the table on one side, uncle Adriano and aunt Santina next to Marco, dad and mom by my side and grandfather and grandmother opposite to us. Under the plate me and Marco ...

When I hear the postman ring the bell and I am aware that I am waiting for a fabulous parcel from Amazon, I am happy as a child. My favorite subject in school was History ... of everything! History, History of Art, History of Architecture, History ...

Butter Rum is a traditional hot cocktail from the United States perfect for warming us up over Christmas. This delicious drink has colonial origins and at that time every house had its own family recipe. At the time it was believed that rum was good for and ...

When I think of a late autumn comfort food, I imagine radicchio and bruciatini served warm with freshly made piadina and a glass of good Sangiovese, all strictly from Romagna. But tonight I just have to finish the bottle of "Piantata" Umbria IGT ...

Here in Lombardy, the second Lockdown has begun exactly one week. Just like during the first quarantine, my favorite activities are cooking, eating and drinking. This is why today I want to talk to you about a product that I love: honey. In...

I waited until the last moment to write an article that I had already decided to write. For my beloved dad's "non-birthday" 😔 I learned to avoid the topic so as not to cry, yet again this year I wanted to uncork something special just for him ... and I have ...

The forced quarantine that we have been experiencing for two months has brought us more and more into contact with the kitchen and flavors. Of course there are still those who insist on eating ready-made things, but I am convinced that everyone, absolutely everyone, cooks more. The online wine shop ...

Do you know a "butt bang"? 🤣 This is what I thought when I ate my very own variant of the most famous madeleines, whose original recipe you can find anywhere on the internet. Basically today I wanted to cook some sweets for when the ...

Every time I go to my mother in Romagna, the legs of lamb in the oven are sacred. In reality I don't know if in Romagna you eat a lot of lamb or in my house you always ate a lot of lamb ... however it is one of my 3 favorite meats! Cooking the leg of ...

Dear grandmother Mira, you have been missing for almost 7 years and my only consolation is to imagine that every day you cook delicious dishes for my dad. I imagine you like this: you are tearing up the last passatelli while dad "steals" yet another slice of tongue "to taste ...

Today I want to share a quick recipe for your moments of despair ... er of diet! I took advantage of the fact that I wanted to tell you some delicious Malvasia Aromatica from Candia spumante sweet or passito that I drank recently in Val Tidone for ...

In this beautiful photo Giovanni, the son of my neighbors, is filleting my marinated trout. Its credit is if our Ferragosto lake view table is so beautiful! I love eating marinated or raw fish, indeed, if I could confess I would eat ...

On this beautiful Sunday in early spring, I want to surround myself with the scent of good things. For me, nothing is more delicious than a slice of homemade cake to share with those you love, during a chat, a coffee and a hug. Well yes, I too ...

Among the various wines I received during the holidays, there was also this bottle of Sergio Mionetto White Edition. As you know, I rarely write about wines on the shelves of mass retailers, but this time I decided to make an exception since the product, in its ...

Last night I watched Julia & Julia, the famous film where the fantastic Meryl Streep plays Julia Child, the woman who brought French cuisine to America.

Prawns are a prized food that should be cooked as quickly as possible to give us the best sensory sensations. What wine does it match us?

Today I decided to talk about my absolute favorite dish: spaghetti carbonara! At home I always have yellow-paste eggs, bacon, pecorino romano, black pepper and spaghetti alla chitarra ... for me they are the only ingredients I need for ...

Pasta with scampi is amazing, so today I want to give you my recipe of linguine with scampi in white, eggplant, shallot and oregano ... with a nice Franciacorta in combination! Unfortunately I didn't find the excellent scampi so I decided to use these ...

I dedicate this recipe to all lovers of true Neapolitan pizza like me ... and to my dear friend Walter Scarpi, who with Gianfranco Amadori makes a very good craft beer in Marradi. A preview reserved for my Newsletter subscribers, ...

Tonight I am writing to talk to you about a native vine of Romagna that I adore, the cent ... and I will tell you about it combined with a dish that for me is always the king of my table: tagliatelle al ragù! I grew up with my beloved grandmother, and I pull the pastry from ...

Tonight I am writing to tell you about the sin of gluttony I had this weekend ... or to give you my recipe for Casoncelli from Bergamo! I state that it was the first time I made them ... in my life I have always made only Cappelletti and Tortelli di Zucca ....

Today I want to delight you with a slightly unusual article: my recipe for muffins to combine with Leone Conti's passita albana di romagna. These muffins are really quick and easy to make if you have all the ingredients and tools you need at home. To this ...