Elizabeth Minchilli's Blog, page 30
February 4, 2016
trattoria tullio a montebeni {fiesole}
One of the great things about living in an city in Italy is that it’s usually very easy to get out of them. The sprawling, endless suburbs you get in the States don’t really exist here. One minute you are in a city then the next – wham – there are sheep-filled fields. Last...
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February 1, 2016
ditta artiginale {florence}
I’m usually all about the old fashioned places that haven’t changed for generations, and am skeptical not only of anything new and shiny, but especially the incursion of Brooklyn-inspired hipster culture onto my beloved stone paved streets. But sometimes? New (and admittedly hipster) is ok. It gets a pass from me when the food served...
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January 27, 2016
vini e vecchi sapori {florence}
My trip to Florence last week was two fold. On the one hand I was there to update my app, EAT FLORENCE, visiting all the new and exciting places that had opened over the last year or so . But want to know what really excites me more than anything? The old places that have...
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January 25, 2016
veal piccata {a.k.a. scaloppine al limone}
I’ve been thinking a lot about old recipes lately. Recipes other people used to make, that have gone out of fashion. And recipes I used to make ( and love) that don’t seem to be in my rotation anymore. Which of course has lead me to start thinking about some of my oldest and most...
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January 21, 2016
cucina ducale – pitti palace {florence}
I spent a glorious 5 days in Florence last week. It’s my favorite time of year to go there, and I try to spend a chunk of time every winter, rather than just make do with day trips from Rome. One of the reasons I love it is because the weather is crisp and cool,...
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January 18, 2016
orecchiette with cabbage + sausage
Here’s a super easy, and rather healthy, way to eat your vegetables (new year’s resolutions much?) while refusing to give up things like pasta (my life, more or less). My approach to pasta, 9 times out of 10, has as much to do with what vegetables I have in my fridge, rather than deciding to...
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January 12, 2016
spaghetti aglio, olio, peperoncino {video}
The other day Sophie and I were talking about pasta. We do that a lot. We were discussing how everyone has their own twist on traditional dishes. For instance, even with something as seemingly straight forward as Cacio e Pepe, there are infinite variations in technique. Cheese in the bowl first? With a bit of...
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January 11, 2016
fennel + grapefruit {salad}
Last week Julia Moskin published a recipe that almost everyone I know is trying. It’s a baked entire head of cauliflower that is doused with an almond herb sauce at the end. I think what everyone finds so attractive about this recipe is that is sort of adheres to all the good resolutions we made last...
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January 6, 2016
fried meatballs
It’s a testament to how much we actually managed to eat during the holidays that when I sat down at my computer today and saw these photographs I could barely believe I had actually decided to make fried meatballs for lunch one day. Really. I saw these pictures and thought “who is this person?” Because,...
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January 3, 2016
radicchio salad + blue cheese
For the last month I have been completely obsessed with radicchio. For a while I kind of thought that due to some weather fluke, the radicchio was just better this year. Somehow sweeter? More tender? Yet at the same time delightfully bitter and crunchy. But really? I think my radicchio cravings are just my body’s...
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