Discovering Venice

Some tips and information to live Venice as insiders

Discovering Venice

Good evening everybody! It's now the time for a meat recipe; this is a traditional roast in casserole, long to cook but very easy, always tender, ideal to cook in advance if you're planning a daytrip and wishing to have something yummy and nutritious when you get back home, hungry and tired!

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What a beautiful market today at Rialto! I bought fresh anchovies, which I used to prepare a pasta sauce, and a bunch of fresh, delicious prawns. Going at 8:30am allowed me to enjoy the widest choice. There are thousands of ways to prepare prawns, but maybe, after all, the simpler the better when the "raw material" is good. So here is how I prepared them tonight, as a fresh appetizer:

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I hope all of you is spending a Happy Easter wherever you are! Each year I prepare a traditional cake for Easter; last year it was the "treccia pasquale", this year I found the recipe (on this month's issue of Sale e Pepe) for the "pastiera", a gorgeous cake from Naples, which is anyway largely appreciated in all Italy. It's actually less long to make than I thought, so give it a try!

I had some vanilla beans and wanted to prepare a dessert with it, wanted to make a pudding but looked for a lighter version without eggs, but all of the recipes I found used plenty of butter! So, I decided to create one, which by the way is also gluten-free! Family tested and approved!

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Smells like Spring here! Longer days, shining sun, fresh air... after such a cold month of February, it's such a pleasure to stay outside again and enjoy the sun! Which means, slightly less time for cooking. So, here is a quick and tasty recipe, which needs just a simple preparation. Enjoy!

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Hi everybody! I found this recipe on February's issue of Cucina Moderna and tried it immediately. It actually was a recipe for Valentine's day, but I extended the preparation to the whole family, who appreciated. Here it is!

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Carnival has started and, together with it, fritole! I've always wanted to make them but didn't find a good recipe. This year, I consulted both my new cooking bible "history of Venetian cooking", where you can find the original, XVIII century dated, recipe, as well as other websites and at the end I put them together with this result.

I received from Santa a very nice book: History and Origin of Venetian cooking by Giampiero Rorato; very interesting as it explains all of the influences during history which brought to nowadays dishes. So, I can now try and share with you plenty of traditional recipes! One of these is risi e bisi (rice and peas), which I actually used to prepare before as well, but I can now share with the authority of the printed book. Enjoy!

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After all the Christmas meat and salami, it's really time for some fish! This recipe is really refreshing, delicate and good for kids and parents...

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If pumpkin is maybe the winner in the Winter recipes' presence, Treviso chicory (radicchio di treviso) is probably the second! I love it, and, just like pumpkin, it's open to multiple use: raw, stewed, grilled, baked, it's also a perfect and tasty ingredient for soups, sauces... and for flans like the one I'm presenting today. Here it goes:

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