Pasta & Soups
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

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:

Spaghetti alla trabaccolara Recipe

Fresh Fish Sauce for Spaghetti Recipe …with only fish from Tuscany! The only important note is that in order to serve 4 people you must use at least 800 g of fish. For this reason I don’t have quantities...
Testaroli and Panigacci from Lunigiana

Testaroli and Panigacci from Lunigiana

Testaroli and Panigacci from Lunigiana

Pasta Primavera Recipe

Ingredients Serves 4 Pasta (short) – 380 g Zucchini – 400 g Peas – 200 g White Onion – 1 small Garlic Cloves – 2 Parsley Evoo Salt

Tuscan Cart – Tuscan Kale

Tuscan Kale or in italian cavolo nero is this week’s suggestion from Tuscany to you. Here are the recipes we suggest you make that emphasiza the flavor of black/tuscan kale. From the simplest to the most complex you...

Pasta types and Recipes

What kind of pasta is on your plate? by Charming Italy A little Info and Graphics on pasta types, I love this chart and think we all need one above our kitchen table! Click on it to enlarge and...

What is Acquacotta? A traditional tuscan soup

Acquacotta recipe Ingredients Serves 4 3 celery stalks 2 white onions 400 g. canned Tomatoes 20 g. Dried Porcini Mushrooms 500 g. spinach Olive Oil Salt and Pepper 4 eggs Tuscan Bread slices Pecorino cheese

Potato Tortelli Recipe

Potato tortelli are incredibly soft and have a sweet taste characterised by the garlic and parsley.  It is however, surprising  that these dumplings that contain a great part of potatoes taste as though there were bits of mushroom, apparently the...

Gnudi Recipe

“Gnudi” comes from the italian nudo (naked) and the tuscan dialect gnudo. These naked green spheres might not look very inviting, they are in fact missing their exterior pasta covering. The famous ricotta and spinach ravioli served throughout the country are...

Crespelle alla Fiorentina Recipe

Thanks to Catherine de Medici, spinach, found in many florentine vegetable gardens in the Renaissance, unites with the french bechamelle. Just like Catherine with Henry II. A perfect wedding between France and Italy that gave us Crespelle alla Fiorentina....

Pappa al Pomodoro Recipe

Thick tomato and bread soup As we saw in many other recipes, like panzanella, bruschetta, ribollita and now pappa al pomodoro in tuscan cuisine the use of unsalted and/or stale bread is very common. This bread is combined to...