How to cook dried mushroom

How to cook dried mushroom

Dried mushrooms are a great pantry solution to create amazing and tasty recipes but how to cook the dried mushroom?.In Italy, the most famous are the porcini Italian mushrooms that grow naturally in the Italian mountains, the Alps and the Apennines, and which are...
Seasonings: How to Use and Pair Them

Seasonings: How to Use and Pair Them

Photo Credit: Pikist   Many seasonings exist and today we are going to talk about the spice mix ones, these are usually made of dried herbs and spices, sometimes even powder vegetables like garlic. The most used in Italian recipes and produced in Italy are: Star...
How to store Parmesan

How to store Parmesan

The Parmesan (Parmigiano Reggiano) is a cheese with low water content and this lets you store it for long periods, depending on the packaging and the environment. Vacuum packed Parmesan (Parmigiano Reggiano) You can store vacuum packed Parmesan (Parmigiano Reggiano)...
How to cut Parmesan

How to cut Parmesan

Do you know? Cutting a Parmesan wheel (Parmigiano Reggiano)  is a real art and you can learn it. As in all the art the right instruments are the first step and one of the most important for Parmensan is the almond knife or “tagliagrana” (cut the cheese):...
How to recognize the authentic Grana Padano?

How to recognize the authentic Grana Padano?

How recognize the authentic Grana Padano? Unfortunately, it couldn’t be easy to understand if something we’re eating it’s “authentical” or not. A famous Italian phrasal verb tells “Tell me where you are from and I will tell you who you are”: this could be useful and...
How to eat Italian Spaghetti

How to eat Italian Spaghetti

Everyone in the world has a different way to eat Italian Spaghetti: who cut them, who uses the spoon to roll them or who breaks them in half before cooking them, but for the Italian galateo exists only one way to eat them.

How to disalate Capers

How to disalate Capers

Capers are the unopened buds of the plant, and they can be sold under salt, under oil or vinegar. It is very important to know how and the tricks and tips to disalate Capers under salt.