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Memorie di Angelina

http://memoriediangelina.blogspot.com

A food blog inspired by the wonderful home cooking of my Italian grandmother.

Added on: Jun 28th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Frank Fariello
Listed in: Home Cooking Recipes
Tags: recipes food pasta home cooking italian comfort food

Recent Posts

Ossobuco alla milanese

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 17:58 in winter, meat, lombardia, fall, piatti unici, primi piatti, secondi

Perhaps the most emblematic dish of the cuisine of Lombardy, the northern Italian region of which Milan is the capital, ossobuco (or oss bus in Milanese dialect) is veal shank, cut into thick rounds of shank meat around a marrowbone. It is typically ...
A Word of Thanks

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 09:40

Dear readers, Memorie di Angelina has reached another milestone: it now has over 750 followers and subscribers! Some of you follow the blog through Google Friends Connect, some through Facebook's Networked Blogs, some by email or a reader, some on Tw...
Fregula e salsiccia

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 17:47 in meat, pasta, sardegna, primi piatti

A friend recently gave me a gift of fregula, a typical Sardinian pasta. I had heard of fregula, but had never eaten it—nor did I know any recipes for preparing it, so I dove into my cookbooks and surfed the internet for more information, finding th...
Strozzapreti ai funghi

Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 12:20 in winter, vegan, vegetarian, pasta, vegetable, quick, primi piatti

There are all sorts of mushroom sauces, some of which have made their appearance on this blog: the mushroom and tomato sauce, for example, that goes so well with dried pasta, or the mushroom cream sauce for gnocchi or even ox tongue. None of these ar...
Fagiolini in umido

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 21:46 in vegan, vegetarian, toscana, bean, vegetable, campania, nana, contorno, secondi

While Sundays dinners at Angelina's house were once-a-week, belly-busting, meaty affairs, she practically lived on vegetables during the week. This was long before vegetarianism went mainstream and she would not have thought of herself as a 'weekday ...
Tagliatelle al tonno e panna

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 21:12 in fish, pasta, quick, primi piatti

Here's a dish for iconoclasts: tagliatelle with tunafish simmered in butter, cream and parmesan cheese—a dish that violates one of the cardinal rules of Italian cooking: never mix fish and aged cheese. But this may be one of those exceptions that p...