PIOPPINI MUSHROOMS IN OIL!
My father is passionate of mushrooms. He studies mushrooms and collect them all over the year, so in our house we have always a lot of mushrooms. If someone ask me what is my favorite one, I would say with no doubt pioppini mushrooms (agrocybe aegerita). Indeed, perhaps I could thing about it for a [...]
TAMARO RISOTTO AND STAFFORELLA
Do you remember Tamaro? I've talked about that plant few posts ago. These are the last days to collect them. Why not take advantage and make a good tamaro (tamaro communis) risotto with stafforella cheese? This recipe takes only 30 minutes and is very easy to do... Enjoy! Ingredients Recipe: Risotto Cuisine: Italian [...]
Milk Thistle: frightful but good!
There are herbs so thorny and threatening that you'd never know you could eat them. Such as milk thistle, appreciated in cuisine as in herbal medicine. Also called "saint" thistle for his extraordinary therapeutic qualities. Since ancient times it was used by doctors and herbalists to treat a wide range of diseases. Plants can grow [...]
AND FOR EASTER? TORTARO!
As the Italian tradition wants for the Easter breakfast different variations of sweet pizza are in the menu (expecially in south-central Italy). My favorite one is the tortaro. It's sweet and soft, it has a delicate scent of anise liqueur and, as its 'simlars' externally looks like a cake. The main difference is that inside you [...]
Black Bryony Omelette and Wild Asparagus
The Tamus communis is an alimurgic plant with thousand names. Black Bryony, Madonna Seal, Tamaro, Tanno, Cerasiola, Black vine, tamina grapes, viticella, etc. In France is called Herbe aux femmes battues that means 'grass for battered women', such name is due to the wraps made with the grated root and applied on contusions and sprains. In my [...]
CIAMMELLA SERRONESE (an italian donut)
My mother comes from Serrone (Italy). You can imagine this little town as "the land of the free flight, of the silver olive groves, of the cesanese wine" a town of little mountain houses made of stone and wood. This is the town of warmth people and infinite kinships (such kind of kinships are narrower [...]
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