The visual impression is enough to understand the high quality of the PASTRY SHEETS / LASAGNE - PASTIFICIO CAPONI. The craft pasta processing at environmental temperature helps to preserve the best properties and aromas of durum wheat and eggs, 26 yolks per kg of flour, both exclusively from Italy. Moreover the hand working, differently from the industrial one, increases the absorbing power of the other ingredients and the consistency during the biting is better too. The final result is an exceptional product, as it is the implicit pasta Caponi message, showing us how personal knowledges and manual skills are, in some processes, still an irreplaceable added value in the food field.

Pastificio Caponi was born in 1953, in the province of Pisa, at the beginning oriented towards stuffed fresh pasta production, during the years the dried egg pasta was inserted, in the traditional formats like tagliatelle Caponi, Pappardelle (egg pasta) - Caponi and lasagne Caponi. The raw materials used come from local Tuscan suppliers selected and guaranteed, as the it happens in the case of the eggs (26 egg yolk per kg of flour) whole and opened one at time, while the durum wheat comes from Florence. The pasta is produced using the renewed original machineries of the pasta laboratory, which have the particular peculiarity to leave space for the manual work, still nowadays a big part of the process, without replacing it. As a consequence the result is an artisanal product, traditional and cared in every single detail, also due to the natural temperature drying, a long and expensive process that go to the detriment of quantity but guarantees an incredibili high quality of the final product.

From the moment that the season is coming up, it time for us to open the fresh truffle sale. Tartufi Dominici is a company specialized in the cultivation od truffles placed in the middle of the Umbria country, where the same species of plants and truffle species that you find in the near woods are grown. The ensemble of many factors (height, water availability, ground etc), gives as a result a work where man try to reproduce what nature has always been doing: giving us that unique delicacy called truffle. Fresh Uncinato Truffle - Dominici Truffles is the Ideal for risotto, tagliatelle, eggs and other traditional recipes.

If you have ever visited central Italy it's impossibile that you haven't come across a a shop or food truck selling a magnificent sandwich with Porchetta. It is difficult to establish precisely the year of the born of this product, but it was surely invented before the Romans. This recipe has reached its highest expression in a small village in the province of Rome called Ariccia, that nowadays, thanks to this gastronomic excellence, has an important place in the most famous culinary guides and books. What mainly characterizes the Porchetta di Ariccia IGP is the awsome crunchiness of the bacon rind, obtained thanks to a precise cooking. The meats used come exclusively from porks born, bred and butchered in Italy and are perfectly balanced in a 70-30% proportion between the thin and the fat parts. It is season using only products cultivated in Italy as rosemary, garlic, fennel seeds, finally a lot of black pepper and good sea salt. All the Ariccia porchetta producers would agree that the best way to appreciate this product is a simple sandwich, in this case "less is more". So we're giving you our personal recipe: sandwich with Porchetta di Ariccia IGP, argula and home made mayonnaise. Firstly toast 2 slices of a good Stonebaked organic Pugliese type bread - Forno Astori. Meanwhile in a mixer put two eggs and turn on the mixer adding the seeds oil little by little. When the mayonnaise will be beaten add some Sicilian lemons Verdelli juice and season with some salt (and a touch of mustard too if you like it). Put the mayonnaise on the lower slice of bread, then the arugula and finally abundant porchetta. With this sandwich we recommend to drink a decise character beer like OI Beer.

Today we're going to give you an idea for a dish suit for a good degustation menù. What does this stand for? This kind of menù, contrary to the traditional four dishes of a complete meal at most, is made up of several little courses, this is made to allow the palate to taste more flavors than usual and travel through different consistencies, cooking techniques and products. Today's recipe is: fried breaded provola affumicata, raw scampi and grilled zucchini with tomato Ingredients: Smoked Buffalo Provola from Battipaglia - Caseificio Esposito, fresh scampi, zucchini, San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus, Pachino Cherry Tomatoes, eggs, grated bread, Red garlic from Nubia, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Italian Basil (Genoese) Pot Plant 10cm - Orto mio, Fine sea salt. First shell the fresh scampi and clean them eliminating the intestines. Dry a little the buffalo smoked provola from the milk, then put in the beaten eggs end finally in the grated bread, so put the croquettes in the freezer in order to make the breading more solid. Cut the zucchini in very fine slices using a potato peeler and then grill them (as they will be very thin it will takes very fewer time than usual). For the tomato sauce use 50% agrigenus tomatoes and 50% ciliegini tomatoes, make them cook for half an hour at low fire with a garlic clove (which then you will remove), evo oil, sea salt and some basil leaves. After 30 minutes put all in the mixer and blend it, then pass in small colander. Just before you serve the dish start to fry the breaded smoked provola in frying oil. Finally dish up everything as you see in the image.

Sea urchin is a very popular and fine seafood, thanks to its taste which embodies the essence and freshness of the sea. Eggs are the only part of the sea urchin that is eaten, so only the female is edible. If you want to it it fresh you have to eat the same day it is caught, so the sea urchin pulp is normally frozen immediately after the sea urchins caught in order to maintain the fresh taste as much as possible. Today we're giving you a classic recipe which will make you appreciate and enhance the sea urchins: "Spaghetti ai ricci di mare". Ingredients: Spaghetti - Pasta Bossolasco, Frozen sea urcin pulp - La Bottarga di Tonno Group, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Red garlic from Nubia, Coarse sea salt of Trapani, red hot chili pepper, parsley. First make the water boil, add sea salt and then the pasta (the minutes are written on the box). Meanwhile, in a frying pan, put some evo oil, an unpeeled clove of garlic and some red hot chili pepper making them brown and putting the garlic clove off when it is ready. One minute before it is ready drain the spaghetti and conserve 1\2 glasses of the boiling water, so stir fry the pasta in the frying pan with the flavored oil and add the pasta water. Amalgamate for a minute (until the water evaporates) as the water will release the pasta amid which will make your spaghetti creamy in a natural way. Only in the end add the sea urchin pulp as it only needs warming and not cooking, finally garnish with some minced parsley.

Today we're suggesting you an elegant but simple and quick recipe thanks to the quality of our red tuna which doesn't need much cooking or processing to show its incredible taste and freshness. For this recipe we are using the so called ventresca which is red tuna belly that is to say the finest and fattest part of red tuna. So here you are Black and white sesame crusted red Sicilian tuna with soaked black chickpeas hummus and coffee mayonnaise. Ingredients: 100 g of red tuna ventresca; hummus; mayonnaise and coffee powder For the hummus: 50 g of sesame seeds, 300 g of pre-cooked chickpeas; 75g (cl) of hot water; the juice of a lemon; sesame oil; 1 spoon of paprika; 1 garlic clove; parsley; salt and pepper. (normally hummus should be made in a "Suribachi" but a mixer will be ok too) Peel the garlic eliminating the core and chopping it up and chop up parsley too. Toast the sesame seeds in a pan for 2-3 minutes. Put the seeds in a mixer adding flush sesame oil, salt, water; then unite the cooked chickpeas and continue to amalgamate them adding the rest of the ingredients until the result will be uniform. For the mayonnaise: 2 eggs; seeds oil; juice of half lemon. Put the eggs in a mixer and add gradually slush seeds oil until the sauce reaches the right consistency. When the sauce consistency will be fine add the lemon juice and in the end only a little coffee powder (not too much as coffee has a very strong taste). Put the ventresca on a baking tray in an hot oven at 180 degree with some olive oil putting some sesame seed on the tips of the tuna and cooked for nearly 4 minutes (but you have to control it in order not to make it too cook). Put the hummus first in a soup plate, garnish with coffee mayonnaise and put the red tuna on the top.

When it's dealing with Italy's culinary traditions, you have always to give an important position to the 3 typical Roman pasta: Amatriciana (Gricia too, which is Amatriciana ancestor), Carbonara, Cacio e Pepe. Today we're giving you Pasta alla Carbonara recipe, which origin dates back to the world war two when american soldiers traditional breakfast (eggs and bacon) was mixed with pasta using Italian ingredients and touch discovering this incredible bond of tastes. Ingredients: 400 g of spaghetti Cavalieri, 5 egg yolks 150 g of guanciale - La Cinta di Guido; 100 g of grated Roman Pecorino; black pepper ground at the moment and salt. Unite the egg yolks with the grated pecorino and black pepper (be generous) mix them making a dense cream. Stir fry the guanciale cut into small cubes until it will be crispy (also adding to the cream a little of the fat released by the guanciale to give more flavor). Boil the pasta in salted water, when spaghetti will be cooked "al dente", drain them and amalgamate in a bowl with the cream and guanciale, add a final touch of black pepper and serve it well hot.

Musetto - Salumificio Lovison is the exclusive product by Lovison Friulian agricultural company, this specialty was invented 110 years ago by the company's founder Agostino Lovison. But the reason that distinguish theirs from other great quality producers's too is the use of the noble parts of the pork head from only Friulian pork meat bred using ogm free animal feeds and a secret mixture of spices among which cinnamon,coriander,nutmeg,cloves and pepper. The great Italian 2 michelin stars awarded chef Carlo Cracco has introduced a recipe with the Musetto Lovison in his restaurant menù: Ravioli stuffed with Musetto with vegetable mostarda. Ingredients: For the pasta: 1 kg of 00 flour, 8 egg yolks, 1 whole egg, 20g of Italian extra virgin olive oil For the stuffing: 200g of Musetto Lovison, 80g of stewed savoy mash (make the savoy brownish with 50g of onion, pour with some water and salt, cook fro 1 hour at least. blend with the mixer adding the Musetto Lovison, season with salt and pepper. For the mostarda: 80g of vegetables mostarda (cut into pieces), 80g of celeriac julienne cut. With the flour, eggs, evo oil and salt make an Italian fresh pasta. Roll out the dough, put some stuffing and give the cappelletto shape. Cook the ravioli for 3 minutes in boiling salted water and then stir fry with some calf juice. Put in the plate together with mostarda, celeriac and serve it.

Usually an excellent product as raw ham is should be eaten pure as it is with only a piece of good bread. But today we're trying to suggest you a recipe with raw ham using the most adapt product Piece of Prosciutto di Parma (parma ham) aged 18 months - Ghirard Onesto because , in our opinion, is an high quality parma ham which thanks to its sweetness and short seasoning can go along perfectly with other ingredients. So here you are our raw ham rolls, a good recipe for you aperitif or appetizers. Ingredients: 4 slices of parma ham, a bunch of chives, 150g of fresh soft cheese, 4 eggs, soft inside of bread, salt and pepper. Prepare the hard-boiled eggs in boiling water for 5 minutes and then make them cool down. Open the bread and take the soft inside, extract the yolks from the hard-boiled eggs, mice them and mix them with the soft inside of bread. Add to this mixture the fresh cheese and season with salt and pepper, amalgamate all the ingredients and add chives. Finally prepare singularly the rolls using two spoons making a quenelle to put on each slice, roll up the raw ham and close each roll with a blade of chives.

Today we start in our flash news section the recipes column, as our web site name we will write only Italian recipes. The first one is a very historical and tasty Italian street food, we're talking about the original Mozzarella in Carrozza. The origin this recipe dates back to the XIX century, it was invented to avoid wasting when ingredients began to be less fresh, so people tried to put this spun curd cheese between two slices of stale home made bread and frying it: the result was outstanding! Ingredients for four people: a 350g Buffalo Mozzarella (the only kind allowed!); 8 slices of home made or natural Italian bread, 2 eggs, 4 anchovy filets in EVO oil#, flour, oil to fry. Cut the mozzarella into slices and make it drain, eliminate the bread crust. Put the mozzarella slices on the bread slices and add the anchovy filets, close with another bread slice and push them together. Pass the stuffed bread first into flour and then into whisked eggs; warm abundant frying oil and ,as soon as it reaches the temperature, fry the mozzarella in carrozza. Drain them and serve them well hot!