Recipes

This is a food blog, NOT a recipe blog: most of my posts are about my discovery of American  food, its history, general issues surrounding food, and especially about my food experience as a Tuscan Foodie here in America. There are hundreds of recipe blogs out there, so if you are looking for a recipe blog, I guess you will have to go somewhere else. Having said that, I will post some recipes now and then, especially my attempts at American classics, or twists on Italian and/or Belgian classics: for each of these recipes I will explain its history and how I came about the recipe. If you try any of these, just let me know how they come out!


American and South of the border traditional dishes, Tuscan foodie style

• Hot Toddy: a warm drink for those cold winter nights
• Chili con carne (a bowl of RED): toying with the red chili tradition - download or print the recipe
• Cowboy bison and beer pie: a shepherd's pie with ground bison and a brandy/dark beer sauce/ 
• New Mexican Green chili con carne (a bowl of GREEN): a bowl of green delight - download or print the recipe
• Poblano Soup: a hot soup with the all the flavor of the gentle poblano peppers - download or print the recipe
• Pumpkin cupcakes with chocolate chips: why isn't pumpkin associated more often with chocolate? - download or print the recipe

Italian dishes, mostly from Tuscany, some of them twisted with American ingredients 

• Butternut squash and amaretto cookies tortelli: revisiting an Italian classic with the the queen of US squashes - download or print the recipe.
• Butternut squash, sage and chile de arbol risotto: an Italian recipe, adjusted to local ingredients - download or print this recipe
• Castagnaccio: a typical Tuscan chestnut flour cake - download or print the recipe
• Cecina: traditional street food sold in the coastal area of Liguria and Tuscany - download or print the recipe
• Cioppucco - a fish soup born from the marriage of San Francisco's cioppino and Tuscan cacciucco
• Home made pasta, grandma style: no machines here, just pure, old style kneading and cutting - download or print this recipe
• Frittelle di riso (rice fritters): a typical Tuscan carnival sweet - download or print this recipe
• Lemon mousse with strawberries and blueberries: a classic lemon custard with fruits - download or print this recipe
• Pasta e fagioli di Licia: the one I grew up with - download or print this recipe
• Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes and pecorino cheese: quick, easy and yet delicious - download or print this recipe
• Sweet surprise: calzone with caramelized apples, raisins and pine nuts - download or print this recipe

Belgian dishes, Tuscan Foodie (and Tuscan foodie's wife) style

• Belgian Waffles (Gaufres de Liege): the waffles that Belgians eat - download or print this recipe
• Carbonnade Flamande: Flemish beer beef stew.
• Rabbit with cherry beer and dried cherries: a classic Belgian dish - download or print this recipe