Hi to evry body and thanx for all your answers!!! I try to answer to your questions, so:
1) I also think that pasta and pizza are ther 'Top ten' recipes. When I travel and meet foreign people and speaking I say I'm Italian, 90% of them say 'Oh, pizza, pasta and maccheroni!'
Pasta with tomatoes is for sure the fastest and most typicall recipe of all! Also ragù, but it's not so easy to do, and also right ingredients are not so easy to find!
2) For the man with no Land (I suppose you're a Citizen of the World then! ;-)) which are recipes 5-6-8-22 in my site??? Can you give me the names? Thanx!!
3) For Katie E: ribollita is for sure the most famous Tuscany soup! We generally cook it during winter, bacause in summer we have not the black cabbage leaves. Anyway you can find some similar soups made without cabbage, but taste is different of course! My personal ribollita is this:
Preparation time: 2 hours more or less minutes
Difficulty: medium
Ingredients x 6 people: dreid beans 400 gr cabbage, swiss chard, 3 tomatoes, 2 stalks of sedano, 2 carrots, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic, thymus, homemade bread, olive oil, salt and pepper.
Preparation: Boil the beans and save the cooking water. Take 3/4 of beans and mix the robot, set aside the rest of beans. Take a big skillet, heat some oil and cook the onion and garlic. When it's ready add the celery, carrots and after a few minutes add the tomatoes too. Then add the swiss chard, the cabbage, thyme and salt and pepper. Pour all the cooking water of beans and other ingradients aside from the 1/4 of beans into a sauce pan and let everything cook slowly. It generally takes one hour, so if you notice that the mix becomes dry, add some other warm water. When all the vegetables'll be cooked, drop the rest of beans. Let it rest for half an hour and then, serve the soup. Just add a 'C' of olive oil, directly into the dishes.
Curiosity: 'C' of oil means a small quantity, just the movement we do with the hand, signing a letter C.
4) For Subfuscpersona: doughs are my favorites, also if my kitchen is so small and you need a lot of space when you want to cook them! I give you a version of pizza dough. It's differerent from the usual ones, because we use milk instead of water . Here it is:
Ingredient x people: 1/2 kg white flour OO, 25 gr baking powder, water, olive oil, salt
Preparation: First of all melt the baking powder or the fresh ywalt with a bit of warm water, and when it's completely melt, drop the flour and mix with your hands. Then add the olive oil: take a glass and measure 2 fingers (it's about 3 cm from the bottom). Work the mixture with your hands and at the end when you realise the mixture is soft and not too dry, add a pinch of salt. Let it double its size in a warm place, placing it into a bowl, covered with some plastic.
Thanx again! Greetings from Tuscany!
Simona!