Pasta or rice recipes from Puglia Italy: hand made pasta or risotto
Today was market day in Lecce! So I went to the market (the one where locals go) and met my producer friends who gave me their super sweet tomatoes, basil plants, dried oregano, broccoli rabe and delicious cacioricotta cheese. Therefore, with all these beautiful ingredients I decide to make handmade [...]
There is no better way to start the day than to wake up and find out that the weather outside is beautiful and sunny (65° F!)! So I and Marika went to closest beach in Lecce, where the Sunday farmers market takes place. It was a real feast with all those colorful [...]
If you ever come to Puglia and Southern Italy you will certainly notice that there are many people and women in particular who live up to 100 years and in very healthy conditions. Certainly the slow and relaxed Mediterranean lifestyle has a big influence on this: everybody goes back home for lunch, eats [...]
In three days the World Cup starts and everybody in Puglia is getting ready for it with lots of good luck rituals! You may know that in Southern Italy we are very superstitious. I and Marika will make this simple and delicious recipe to support our Italian team! It is [...]
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. [...]
