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Very nice repice, simple, low in fats but very flavourful, very "italian inspired", especially because there is no cream in it (contrarily to what many people around the world think, cream is almost banned in our cuisine, except in some specific recipes, because it covers too much the rest and...

Hello, tagliatelle and fettuccine are not the same thing. The process and the ingredients are the same, but they are different in width. We have four terms in relationship with the width (talking about fresh pasta noodles): tagliolini: 1-2 millimeters fettuccine: 3-5 millimeters tagliatelle...

I'm italian and live in Italy since I was born so I can help you :smile: It's right that tagliatelle and meat sauces is the best choice. Further than the typical ragu alla bolognese I suggest: wild boar or deer or duck or rabbit ragu. Another ragu typical of my region is sausage and chicken...

Hi Here is a video of the traditional italian recipe (it's also traditional the veg recipe with ricotta and spinach instead of the meat). If you can't do home made pasta buy the fresh sheets for lasagne and wrap them. Those tubes (they don't exist here) don't convince me. They look as dry pasta...

Here in Italy we still have small shops but, sadly, as an effect of the globalisation, big stores of international companies are beginning to attack the market. I really hate supermarkets, big stores, malls, because I feel like I am a number and not a person in there and because there is no...

Thank you very much both for the answers. @tenspeed we have scampi (lagoustines) in the mediterranean, they are delicious (in my opinion the best way is to eat them raw) but they are really really expensive, the big ones cost not less than 30/35 euros/kilo.

Hello from Italy, I had a curiosity about an american recipe (shrimp scampi) I found this forum and I posted my question in the fish recipes section. I'll read the rest because I like to read, talk and share about cooking.

Nice question for an italian...:smile: Very difficult to answer. I think spaghetti with clams.

Hi from Italy. I have a curiosity. In italian shrimp mean...shrimp and scampi mean langoustines, but I see many american recipes called "shrimp scampi" where only shrimps are used. So I'm curious to understand what is intended in usa with the word scampi, considering that scampi is an italian...