Here comes a dish containing a somewhat alternative ingredient, couscous. Some might think it is a  cereal, but it actually is a traditional Berber product made from semolina, granules of durum wheat. This very versatile ingredient, a staple food in North Africa, can be cooked and served with vegetables or stews, but it also can be used to prepare delightful 'salads' or desserts.

Pumpkin risotto is a well-known dish in traditional Lombard cuisine. Very easy to make and incredibly tasty at the same time, it makes an ideal dish for cold autumn or winter days. Its origins are, as the majority of the courses prepared with pumpkin, humble ones, as this vegetable was cultivated and eaten mostly by peasants. In this version we decided to enrich the recipe a bit by adding another much-loved ingredient of the northern culinary tradition: raw ham.

Some tasty anchovies can make your usual pizza a wonderful food experience! Discover our special recipe!

Ok, ok, we admit it: this does not look or sound like a typical traditional Italian dish. But! We can assure you that the quality of the ingredients and the creativity of the chef are 100% green, white and red! This is a quite unusual dish, somehow inspired by the Southeast Asian cuisine, where combining of savoury and sweet is commonplace, the use of nuts widespread and the basmati rice is a native staple food.  

Fregula with clams and tomatoes is a very typical Sardinian dish. The fregula pasta, in fact, is traditionally made on this beautiful sunny island by rubbing durum wheat flour together with water in a terracotta bowl, until it sticks together forming little balls of 2 to 6 mm each. Enjoy this dish at the beginning of a fish-based meal and get that holiday feeling for a while!

This delicious pasta is one of the most typical Sicilian dishes! Invented in the Catania, where it's called 'Pasta Ca' Norma', the original recipe is characterised by fresh tomato sauce, fried aubergines, basil and a typical hard cheese called 'ricotta salata' (salty ricotta). Ideal in summer, when tomatoes, aubergines and basil are in season. Enjoy!

If pumpkin time has come, then you shouldn't miss out on the opportunity to cook this marvellous first dish: pumpkin cream on pasta tastes simply amazing! Make sure you choose the right pasta variety, such as fusilli, in order to soak up all of the delicious creaminess of the sauce. The latter can also be served on toasted bread, topped with some ground nuts, as an appetiser or during an aperitif.

Cabbage is a great vegetable, one of the healthiest one thanks to its properties. Rich in fibre and with a very low fat content, it is often eaten raw in salads, but most people prefer to cook it in various ways. This recipe shows you how to prepare a savoury, appetizing pasta dish dressed with a tomato sauce enriched by cabbage and bacon.