The Comfort of Italian Home Cooking
The Italian name for beef stew with red wine is “spezzatino” o “stufato”, which comes from the name “stufa”, the wood burning cook stove that many in the north of Italy still have in their house. The winter is actually pretty tough in the north, so the wood burning stove […]
Did you ever heard the Italian expression “gnocchi on Thursday”? Yes, traditionally gnocchi are served on Thursday in Italy. Now you are probably thinking that that it sounds odd, or at least a bit funny. Why Thursday and not Tuesday, or Wednesday? Well, tradition has always its reasons, or at […]