In my last post on curing black olives I mentioned that I was making them 2 ways: sott’acqua (in a simple brine of salt and water) and al forno (oven dried black olives.) The black olives “sott’acqua” don’t take much maintenance… once you make your brine and drop them in it’s a waiting game. The [...]
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I can fondly remember sitting with my mother and snapping the ends off green beans fresh from the garden when I was a kid, so yesterday when I was visiting my parent’s I picked the first green beans of the season and took them home, sat in the backyard and snapped away. One of my favorite [...] I’ve made lots of friends through sopressata… I really have. My father has been offered money, a friend wants to feature it in a future restaurant he is opening and one of my Irish buddies has somehow gotten “in” and now chips in financially and helps make them in order to get a share… in [...]
Now that Thanksgiving is over and December has arrived, Italians go into overdrive in the kitchen. There are so many wonderful dishes, recipes, specialties and customs that come along with the holidays, which for me has always been a wonderful time of year. Christmas Eve in particular is one of my [...] Once a month Italyville.com will post “Homemade” – authentic homemade Italian recipes. Since this is the first homemade post, well….. we’re going to have to start at the beginning; one of the foundations of the Italian culinary experience, something Italians simply CAN NOT eat without. Pane = Bread. If I had a [...] One of my favorite smells:) mmmmm….. The best part of making salumi is all the recipes that go along with it. One of my favorite dishes is “Polpette di salsiccia e ricotta.” It’s a fairly simple dish but loaded with Mmmmmmmm. Since we just made it the other day, I figured I would post this recipe [...] |
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