Gnocchi alla sorrentina, gnocchi in the style of Sorrento, are a wonderfully simple Italian dish. Sorrento is a town near Naples and the dish itself seems to be a few hundred years old – some sources mention its existence even in the XVIth century! According to the legend, they were invented along with gnocchi themselves,…
Tag: Italian cooking
Lasagne Bolognese ๐ฎ๐น
Lasagne are one of the most famous dishes in the world. While in the USA the version with ricotta ismore popular (and originally comes from southern Italy), and several other regional variations exist in Italy, the default Italian (and consequently European) version are lasagne alla bolognese: lasagne sheets, ragรบ alla bolognese (classic Bolognese sauce), bechamel…
Gnudi primavera ๐ฎ๐น
Gnudi. Maybe you never heard of these fluffy, cheesy gnocchi-relatives. They are Tuscan dumplings made of ricotta, originally the sheep one. The best known version also uses spinach in the dough, an after cooking they are turned in butter with sage. There are more than enough classical gnudi recipes online, but… I attempted something new…
Farfalle alla puttanesca ๐ฎ๐น
When I am stressed, sometimes making my own pasta can calm me down a bit. At least as long as it is not with more than 200 g flour, i.e. not for more than two persons ๐คฃ Yesterday I had one of such days so I took 100 g flour, a pinch of salt, an…
Polpete u toฤu ๐ญ๐ท / polpette al sugo ๐ฎ๐น
One of the best-loved Dalmatian comfort-food dishes, for most Dalmatians bringing strong memories from childhood days with mom or granny, is polpete u toฤu. Dalmatia is the coastal part of Croatia, directly across Italy on the other side of the Adriatic sea. This is where this dish originally came from: its ‘parent-dish’ is the Italian…
Tortellini alla panna con funghi finferli ๐ฎ๐น
Yesterday I realised – even if most of my cooking is either Turkish or Italian, and even if Italywas on the Simplon Orient Express route, I still had not publisbed a single Italian recipe! This omissionis hereby now removed ๐ Yes, I often make traditional pasta dishes like spaghetti carbonara, or penne all’Amatriciana, or buccatini…
Saltimbocca alla Romana in Trastevere (Rome) ๐ฎ๐น
Some of you, my dear readers, might be puzzled about Italian food featuring in this Orient Express themed food blog. Notwithstanding, Italy has the same right to appear in it as has Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia – all of these countries lie on the Simplon Orient Express route, and Hercule Poirot travelled with a Simplon…
Cooker on the Orient Express 