Elizabeth Minchilli's Blog, page 37
June 14, 2015
prosciutto {1 book + 2 recipes}
Sometimes it takes a nudge to remind you of things you take for granted. In my case the thing was food related (no surprise there) and the nudge came in the form of a perfect little cookbook that arrived in the mail a few weeks ago. The cookbook was written by Sara Jenkins and is...
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June 10, 2015
cheap eats in rome {pastificio}
There’s a reason that I lead food tours in certain neighborhoods in Rome, and not others. Even though Campo de’ Fiori and the Jewish Ghetto have changed much over the last decade, with truly disturbing inroads being made by vendors selling everything from fast french fries to knock off purses, it still manages to retain...
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June 8, 2015
principe bar {hotel principe di savoia – milan}
There’s something incredibly grown up about drinking in a hotel cocktail bar. To me it always feels a bit 1940’s and I think I’d be more comfortable wearing gloves or a hat or at least high heels. I think I may have watched too many Humphrey Bogart movies, but still, there is a sense of refinement...
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June 7, 2015
zucchini lasagna
I should be shot in the head for cooking with zucchini this time of year. Because if I’m cooking with zucchini that means I’m buying zucchini. And I have no right to be buying any kind of zucchini when, in a few short weeks my vegetable garden in Umbria will begin its yearly zucchini fest....
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June 3, 2015
pasta + herbs
Sometimes I go out into our vegetable garden and there is so much stuff I don’t know what to use first. And other times? There’s a whole lotta radish going on. And not much else. This past weekend I was faced with radish overload. And salad, we also had that. Both radish and lettuce seeds...
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June 1, 2015
la toricella {fish in rome}
Fish is not usually something anyone would associate with the area of Testaccio in Rome. This working class neighborhood has a meaty reputation that is firmly rooted in the 19th century slaughterhouse that takes up most of the real estate of this heavily populated area tucked into a curve in the Tiber. Although the slaughterhouse...
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May 31, 2015
alla collina pistoiese milan {artichoke salad video}
I am such a sucker for the kind of ritual and old-fashioned elegance that you find in Italian restaurants. This is a very different thing than my fondness for simple trattorias. No. I’m talking about the hushed quite that you experience when you are ushered into a true ristorante, where the waiters wear pressed white jackets...
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May 27, 2015
talking about eating + living in rome {video}
I get a lot of emails from various travel websites asking if I’d like to collaborate with them in some way. Big sites like Trip Advisor or Epicurious. And smaller sites that you’ve probably never heard of. Usually – big or small – the ‘collaboration’ is in the form of me providing some sort of...
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May 25, 2015
fiaschetteria beltrame {rome}
Before there were ristorante and trattorie, there were osterie, bottiglierie and fiaschetterie. These simple places had a few tables and wine in straw covered bottles (fiasche) on tap. The thinking was that you would bring your own food, sit at one of the paper-topped tables, and then enjoy a few glasses of frascati while eating...
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fazzoletto di uova {cooking with rolando}
A few weeks ago I had both Salvatore and Rolando cooking in my kitchen in Umbria. Each are great cooks, each has run their own restaurant and each couldn’t be more different than the other. And I’m not talking about the the ‘one is short and one is tall’ thing. I’m talking about personality, way of...
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