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, ragú alla bolognese (classic Bolognese sauce), bechamel…
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Mantı in Bodrum 🇹🇷
It is now a long time since I wrote an ‘on location’ article, but thank God finally I managed to travel again. Being now back to Turkey after 9 long months of waiting, it’s time to eat lots, and write about one more staple of Turkish cuisine, the mantı. They are often translated as ‘Turkish…
Farfalle alla puttanesca 🇮🇹
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 🤣 Yesterday I had one of such days so I took 100 g flour, a pinch of salt, an…
Tortellini alla panna con funghi finferli 🇮🇹
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 🙂 Yes, I often make traditional pasta dishes like spaghetti carbonara, or penne all’Amatriciana, or buccatini…
Cooker on the Orient Express 