by Elena | Sep 17, 2022 | Unusual pairings
Yes, absolutely right, I confirm: the Mare & Monti pairing really wins. How can this work? Simple: take some fresh prawns, a pan with a spoon of oil, a few cloves of garlic and a sprinkling of coarsely chopped parsley. After ten minutes, just waiting the gray...
by Elena | Mar 16, 2022 | Unusual pairings
And I’m not talking about a football match…! Because basically, in the gastronomic field, whoever says Spain says… Paella! Then there are different recipes of paella depending on where you are, but the classic one remains the Valencian paella: a mixture of meat,...
by Elena | Mar 22, 2021 | Unusual pairings
I have always been fascinated by the stories of migrants (big family to which I belong too, after all): when I think of my Italian region, which basically has a reputation as a land of “Bogia nen” (“don’t move” in dialect Piedmontese), I...
by Elena | Jan 26, 2021 | Unusual pairings
Chili con carne: this well-known and very good dish from Texas (not from Mexico!) is one of the things that makes you in a good mood: that’s why “it must be done”. This is the point. The variant I choose to prepare is the classic one (which basically...
by Elena | Jan 17, 2021 | Unusual pairings
Piedmont that emigrates, like me. The agnolotti, a typical Piedmontese dish of pasta dough filled with roasted meat, that it’s a fixed appointment of our Italian Christmas lunch, this year it remained faithful to the line: even in this period of pandemic and...
by Elena | Nov 15, 2020 | Unusual pairings
This is what it is written on this intriguing and nice label of “The Scallywag” – Chardonnay 2018 by Hugh Hamilton Wines, with a black sheep in the background. In fact this black sheep is the symbol of this South Australian wine producer that appears...
