Winter Recipes

Fagioli all’ucceletto – Tuscan style beans

This is a very simple and traditional tuscan dish, the recipe I shared is certainly the simplest and most authentic version. The only part that can be modified concerns the order of the ingredients, some cooks...
Cenci are tuscan carnival sweets..not rags

Cenci are tuscan carnival sweets..not rags

  Cenci are typical sweets that are often prepared throughout Tuscany during Carnival, especially on jeudi gras, in the past cenci were called “gloves” because they were shaped like gloves and then the dough was cut in...

Tuscan Kale

Until recently, every family in Tuscany had a vegetable garden of some sort, lately this has once again become a trend.  One of the vegetables that you are sure to find in a vegetable garden this time of the year is...
Crostini - the tuscan starter

Crostini – the tuscan starter

Chicken liver crostini: the tradition Tuscan starter (even during Christmas)
In Tuscany Christmas sweets are 1000 years old

In Tuscany Christmas sweets are 1000 years old

Panforte, a traditional Tuscan sweet that we usually have during the Christmas season