It’s difficult to imagine Italian cuisine without the distinct flavor of fresh herbs. Basil Basil is an essential herb in Italian cooking. Crushed basil leaves combined with oil, garlic, and pine nuts create a delicious pesto sauce. Basil is the perfect compliment to the flavor of tomato sauce, and works well in pasta dishes. Fresh […]
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Lasagne is a wide, flat pasta shape and possibly one of the oldest. The word also refers to a dish made with this type of pasta with different sauces and baked in the oven. As with most other types of pasta, the word is a plural form, lasagne meaning more than one piece of lasagna […]
Read More...Spring is already popping up! So we’ve decided to recommend a menu that matches perfectly with the season. Let’s start with a simple and tasty starter. Pinzimonio – Fresh Vegetables Remember this is a simple antipasto or something to nibble during your cocktails. Keep in mind the one thing that counts is the quality of […]
Read More...UnseenTuscany.com presents a very simple recipe – patè di olive (black olives patè). It is popular not only in Tuscany but Liguria and Sicily as well. You serve olive patè on small slices of toast. Olive patè can be used also to flavore salad, pasta or meat dishes.
Read More...The Certaldo Onion or Cipolla di Certaldo is one very special onion: cited in Boccaccio’s Decameron, the Vernina variety is a symbol of its town of origin. Two varieties exist. The Statina is round in shape and purplish in color with succulent flesh. It is best eaten in the summer months. The bright red and […]
Read More...Pici with Garlic Sauce, or Pici all’Aglione (aglio means garlic, and gives an idea of just how garlicky this is) from the Montepulciano/Montalcino area south of Siena. Pici are hand-made, somewhat irregular strands of flour-and-water pasta (as opposed to egg pasta) that are about an eighth of an inch thick. If you can’t find them, […]
Read More...February in Italy – is a time of carnivals and one of the most exciting periods to travel to Tuscany, where you can find a variety of celebrations, from the huge Viareggio Carnival to many fiestas of small villages. None of the carnivals in Italy can take place without two things – masks and sweets. […]
Read More...A new rubric in UnseenTuscany.com – ‘Sunday Recipe’ invites you to make a tour of Tuscan cuisine. Each week we will present to you the most popular recipes and tell you the stories and traditions related to them. We will start from the coast and its most famous dish. And the most remarkable dish of […]
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