The collection
Recipes
Every recipe is a whole meal in a single dish, built for one (or two) and ready in the time it takes to decide what to watch. No props, no theatre, no waste.
Pasta e patate with smoked mozzarella
Pasta e patate is a dish that looks like a mistake on paper and tastes like a hug in person. Pasta. Potatoes. Together. It sounds like the kind of thing a...
Caprese panino with prosciutto crudo
The panino alla caprese is the Italian sandwich that somehow manages to taste like a two-week summer holiday on the island of Capri even when you are eating it...
Gnocchi alla sorrentina
Gnocchi alla sorrentina is the dish your Italian mother makes the day you come home from a long trip. The day your girlfriend broke up with you. The day you...
Pasta al tonno with olives and capers
There is a specific moment in every young man's life when he realizes that pasta al tonno is a legitimate dinner option and not a sad capitulation to...
Tuna, cannellini, and red onion salad with rustic bread
If there is one dish in the Italian repertoire that proves you don't need to cook to eat like a king, it is tonno e fagioli. A can of tuna, a can of cannellini...
Insalata di farro with tuna, tomatoes, and rocket
Farro is the grain that Roman legionaries ate on their way to conquer most of Europe, and having tried this salad, we understand why those campaigns went as...
Minestrone with rice
Minestrone is the soup that wasn't invented so much as negotiated into existence over the course of a hundred generations of Italian households trying to use...
Pasta e fagioli
Every Italian family has a pasta e fagioli and every Italian family thinks theirs is the real one. In Tuscany they'll insist on cannellini. In the Veneto...
Lentil soup with garlic crostoni
Italian tradition says that eating lentils on New Year's Eve brings money in the new year, because the little discs look like coins. We can personally confirm...
Pasta alla Norma
Legend says a Sicilian writer once watched his friend eat this pasta and shouted chista è 'na vera Norma!, a true Norma, in honor of the Bellini opera. Whether...
Pumpkin and sausage risotto
Risotto is the dish that taught us cooking is also a conversation with the pot. The first time we tried, we walked away to check our phone for thirty seconds,...
Insalata di riso
The unwritten Italian summer rule: from August 10 onwards, no one turns on the stove for more than twenty minutes. The insalata di riso is the national...
Eggs in purgatory
This dish exists because someone, somewhere in southern Italy, came home at 3am on a Saturday after too many glasses of red, opened the fridge, and found...
Orecchiette with broccoli and sausage
Our cousin from Bari has exactly one culinary opinion, which is that pasta with broccoli is superior to every other pasta on earth. The classic Apulian version...
Pasta e ceci
In our student house there was a dish called venerdì sera. The fridge had surrendered, the wallet had surrendered, and the only survivors were a can of...
Zucchini and potato frittata
The frittata is the Swiss Army knife of the Italian kitchen. Leftover vegetables? Frittata. Unexpected friend on the doorstep? Frittata. Sunday picnic?...
Tuna panzanella
In Tuscany in August, our nonna refused to turn on the oven. Not for bread, not for pasta, not for the love of God. She would slice yesterday's bread, drench...
Trofie al pesto with green beans and potatoes
There is a specific corner of Italy where they got the memo about carbs before anyone else, and that corner is Liguria. The Ligurian ancestors, faced with the...