The Italian Taste

The art of Italian cooking and entertaining

The Italian art of cooking pasta: orecchiette with broccoli

Hi, this is the nineteenth post about Italian pasta recipes. We are in winter. A seasonal vegetable is broccoli. In Italy we cook broccoli in many times even with pasta and it tastes fantastic! There are a lot of recipes. Easy-to-do recipes and recipes rich in ingredients and full of flavours. Today we begin with [...]

The Italian art of cooking pasta: baked ziti with cauliflower

Hi, this is the eighteenth post about Italian cuisine. In the last entries we wrote  about simple pasta recipes with cauliflower. We want to go on with these themed recipe ideas and tell you how Sicilians prepare pasta with cauliflower. The most famous recipe is pasta with “vrocculi arriminati”. In Sicily cauliflower is called broccoli [...]

The art of Italian cooking: pasta with cauliflower, bacon and black olives

Hi, this is the seventeenth post about the art of cooking Italian pasta. Yesterday Carlo and I showed you a simple pasta recipe whose sauce is made with cauliflower. Today we tell you about another version, typical of South of Italy. Orecchiette tossed with a white sauce made with cauliflower, bacon and black olives. Another [...]

The art of Italian cooking: pasta with cauliflower

Hi, this is the sixteenth post about the art of cooking Italian  pasta. Today Carlo and I show you how to make the pasta shape you prefer (penne, rigatoni, fusilli, spaghetti …) tossed with cauliflower sauce. This is a white sauce, in other words a no tomato sauce. It’s a typical winter dish and is [...]

The art of Italian cooking: Ligurian trofie

Hi, this is the fifteenth post about the art of Italian cooking. Today we want to tell you about another pesto sauce recipe. Pesto sauce is an authentic  recipe from Liguria.  In Italy we use it to toss pasta, gnocchi,  lasagne and pizza as we have already written. Among the pasta shape there are trofie: [...]

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