Pasta with saffron and cauliflower (Pasta con i broccoli rimestati)
Sicily’s cuisine is vastly different from the rest of Italy and heavily influenced by its Mediterranean neighbors. The classic sweet and sour flavor palette, along …
Steamed mussels Trieste style (Cozze all Triestina)
We prepare to depart Friuli-Venezia Giulia as we arrived, paying tribute to one the most famous and most beloved chefs from this part of Italy, …
Wanderings: Gentle Friuli
As we prepare to say arrivederci (for now) to Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and wander off to some new region (stay tuned to see which one!), it’s …
Verduzzo Friulano: Sweet Surpise
Only two bottles of the wine we brought back from Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 2010 were left in the wine fridge. I thought they were both …
Butternut squash gnocchi sautéed with pancetta (Gnocchi di zucca saltati con pancetta croccante)
When we started our “Wandering…” series featuring region-specific food around Italy, we emailed our friends at Borgo Floreani in the heart of Friuli–Venezia Giulia for some …
Trieste Goulash (Goulash Triestino)
Italian Goulash?? Really? Yes, it’s true. Trieste, the capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (FVG) and part of the Austro-Hungrarian Empire prior to the end of World …
Guerra Albano: A Friulian Find
One night during our stay in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, our host at Borgo Floreano prepared a wonderful wine-pairing dinner for us, and a few days later …
Shrimp Buzara Style (Gamberoni alla Buzara)
With the waters of the Adriatic lapping its coastline, Friuli Venezia-Giulia’s sparkling sea affords a bounty of fresh seafood, including a species of very large shrimp, almost …
Risotto from the sea and mountains (Risotto mari e monti)
Friuli-Venezia Giulia (FVG) is notable for stretching from lagoons to the south to snow caped mountains in the north and plains and forests in between. …
Wandering through. . .Friuli Venezia-Giulia
Why, when most Italian regions have lovely one-word names (Toscano, Piemonte, Puglia), is one of the smallest and most out-of-the-way regions burdened by a name …
Friuli Venezia-Giulia:The Land of the Polentoni – Polenta Crostini with Sauteed Wild Mushrooms
I am off to Uganda to do some volunteer work in the week ahead but didn’t want to leave without posting an antipasto very fitting …
Agriturismo “Borgo Floreani” – Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia
Friuli Venezia-Giulia (FVG) is an area of Italy many Americans don’t know about. Northeast of Venice, it’s a region of Italy rich in history and …