Today we are going to prepare one of the most successful Italian recipes: risotto with artichokes! We can certainly say Puglia is an artichoke lovers' paradise! If you come to Puglia at this time of the year you'll see artichokes everywhere: at the markets and at every street corner the farmers sell [...]
There is one dish that cannot miss on Italian tables at midnight on December 31st. This is the Lentil soup! Because they resembled coins, in the past they were thought to bring financial prosperity in the year to come. Nowadays, we associate them to general good luck, in any field. [...]
If you want to look very local in Lecce, you need to have an Italian aperitif, before lunch, in the Sant'Oronzo square, like all the Leccese people! Every day, at 12:0'clock an opera singer announces it is noon....and so aperitif time for the true Leccese people! we go to the Sant'Oronzo [...]
What a fun day today! My sister and I got together and made fresh orecchiette pasta! Orecchiette pasta is the typical pasta course we have on a Sunday lunch in Puglia. We started making the orecchiette at 9am so that the pasta had enough time to dry before lunch In [...]
What we find really find interesting about the cuisine of our region, Puglia, is that wherever you go, you eat what´s produced in that specific place. Therefore, you can have the best seafood and fish only when you go to a town which is literally by the sea (such as Gallipoli, [...]