Side Dishes

Broad Beans and Pecorino Recipe

Easy and Fast How easy can tuscan food get – here is the broad bean and pecorino salad recipe! Traditionally broad beans are eaten with some fresh pecorino, this way the slight bitterness of the broad beans is...

How to clean an artichoke? and the recipe

Artichokes are about to bloom all over Tuscany and when I say bloom it is referred to the fact that artichokes are flowers. Only, they are not just beautiful they are also delicious and perfect...

Cardoon Gratin Recipe

Serves 6-8 Ingredients 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) cardoons, washed with tough outer stem and fibres stripped away juice of 1/2 a lemon 3 or 4 eggs about 125 ml (1/2 cup) flour for dusting about 125 ml (1/2...

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...