Tuscan Recipes
Top 8 best autumn tuscan dishes

Top 8 best autumn tuscan dishes

Top 8 best autumn tuscan dishes   There are some times of the year, some months or specific season that you can immediatly connect with a special dish, taste or smell. Which are, in your opinion, the...
October and Chestnuts in Tuscany

October and Chestnuts in Tuscany

October in Tuscany means chestnut feasts, chestnut picking and chestnut recipes. For those who don’t particularly appreciate chestnuts, now is the time to move on and out of this post. It’s also true that you won’t see any...
Tuscan as in Tomatoes

Tuscan as in Tomatoes

okay, so we’ve just finished pulling out our tomato plants as their season is more or less officially over. They were sort of wilting, the plant was beginning to dry up and the leaves to lose a couple of...
Top 10 Fish Recipes from Tuscany

Top 10 Fish Recipes from Tuscany

This is simply a post that collects the 10 most famous fish recipes from Tuscany. At the end of the post I also added the most common types of fish you’ll find and their names in both...
Spaghetti with Anchovies Recipe

Spaghetti with Anchovies Recipe

Ingredients Serves 4 350 g spaghetti 300 g fresh anchovies (small sized) 2 garlic cloves bunch of parsley 1 chilli (red, small and dry) 1/2 glass of white dry wine 4 tbs extra virgin olive oil
Buglione Recipe

Buglione Recipe

                Ingredients Serves 4 2 eggplants 2 potatoes (i like to leave the skin on) 1 large very ripe tomato 2 bell peppers (green, red or yellow) 3 zucchini 2 large white onions 15...

Friday’s Fake Fish Recipe

Pesce Finto (Fake Fish) Ingredients Serves 4 Potatoes 500 g. Canned tuna, drained from its oil 250 g. Parsley Mayonnaise, as much as you will need to cover Capers 2tbs Olives (without pit) 50 g. Salt & pepper

Fritto Misto dell’Aia Recipe

Mixed Fried Meats (from the farmyard) Fritto Misto dell’aia is the name by which on Italian menus you’ll find fried chicken and rabbit. Ingredients Serves 4 1/2 chicken (cut into pieces) 1/2 rabbit (cut into pieces) Olive oil (Extra...

Panficato del Giglio

Giglio Island Sweet Panficato is a typical sweet from the Island of Giglio. To be more exact it comes from Giglio Castello, the fortified neighbourhood of the island. Here figs and grapes are dried on granite surfaces and underneath the...

Tordelli Versiliesi Recipe

Ingredients Ingredients for the pasta: 400g of flour; 3 eggs; A spoon of extra virgin oil; A spoon of milk; Salt to taste. Ingredients for the filling:
Sburrita Recipe from Elba

Sburrita Recipe from Elba

Ingredients Serve 4 800g salted cod cubed tomatoes 6-7 cloves garlic half a tbs of chilli flakes a small bunch of nepitella or calamint 2 glasses of extra virgin olive oil salt tuscan bread (roasted) Preparation Prepare the cod...

Triglie alla Livornese Recipe

Mullet in Red Sauce from Leghorn Recipe Ingredients Serve 4 Mullets for about a  Kilo in weight (2.5 pounds) 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped a small handful of chopped parsley 4 tbs Extra virgin Olive Oil 400...