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Bucatini all’Amatriciana is a classic of Roman cooking. The name comes from Amatrice, a town in Lazio; where the farmers that travelled down to Rome with their produce, including fresh ewe’s milk cheese (pecorino) and mountain pigs, also imported this way of cooking maccheroni and bucatini. It is delicious!
Ingredients
1 pound (450 gr) Bucatini pasta
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This is a great dish, and it has many great and different flavors. It was originally made for the working women in Italy. It was supposedly very easy to make if you were in a time crunch, and the ingredients were not expensive. The women did not have much time to eat and not very [...]
Italian Food is out of this world but there is one place in Italy that is even better. Not many people know of this place. Do you?
Well Piedmont is the place. For the people of Piedmont eating is one of the great pleasures of life. It is something that is taken extremely seriously.
This is a [...]
Lasagna is an ancient dish and goes back to Biblical times. The pasta and cheese dish is found in many parts of Italy. Some food historians think Italian housewives invented the dish to use leftover pasta and sauce. According to “The Cooking of Italy,” a Time-Life Book published in 1968, Italian cooking [...]
Which is the best authentic Italian cook book? This is a question I am asked a lot. I have lived in Italy for ten years and many of my family and friends living in the USA, Australia and the UK have in the past asked me for advice as to which Italian cookbooks give you [...]
If you are looking for a classic Italian dish then this is the one for you. It is fairly easy for anyone to cook if you just follow the directions. To make it the traditional way you will need to use prosciutto or pancetta which is Italian bacon. I prefer to use good American bacon [...]
Making pasta is very simple - you just need a little bit of patience.
To make egg pasta use a ratio of 100g of 00 (double zero) flour to every medium-sized egg. 100g of pasta is enough for one person. Mix the two together until you obtain soft, elastic dough. It should be like pinching the [...]
Marinara Sauce: This is a really simple sauce, and it is meant to be simple, as most Italian sauces. This sauce is traditionally flavored with tomatoes, garlic, and herbs. The translation of Marinara or “Marinaro” means Sailor, and thus means Sailor Sauce. There are several different variations of this sauce, and they are easy to [...]
Israeli Couscous is a small, round semolina pasta that should not be confused with the tiny, yellow North African couscous; it is a different animal altogether! Sometimes called pearl couscous or maftoul, it resembles barley, or very small, white peas.
After being shaped and rolled into small balls, these semolina pearls are toasted in an open-flame [...]
What’s for dinner? The answer to the dreaded question when you’re busy and out of ideas -chicken, an easy recipe that is guaranteed to get you out of the dinner time rut and start your creative juices flowing. Well this recipe is just the thing to add interest back into your dinnertime. This Chicken Breasts [...]