Recipes from an Italian Summer

  • Mayonnaise basic recipe (Maionese ricetta base)

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    • Ingredients: egg yolks; sunflower oil
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  • Pear and Fontina puffs (Sfogliatine di pere e Fontina)

    • Astrid5555 on January 01, 2016

      Made these as part of my New Year's Eve appetizers. Since I got an uneven number of squares from my puff pastry sheet I decided to fold the squares onto themselves and make little triangels instead of using two squares per pastry and making bigger pastries. Were lovely right out of the oven, but got stale very quickly. Since I did not seal the pastries properly, the cheese oozed out onto the baking sheet which made these a little bit on the sweet side from the pears. However, these are perfect if pressed for time.

  • Cream of pea soup (Crema di piselli)

  • Seafood risotto (Risotto alla marinara)

    • Charlotte_vandenberg on June 23, 2017

      Very nice risotto, without cheese. Used frozen seafood in stead of fresh, probably a billion times better with fresh seafood, but now it was really quick and easy..

  • Apricot cake (Torta di albicocche)

    • Astrid5555 on August 02, 2015

      End result was very good, however there is something off with the recipe. The batter was incredibly dry and stiff (too much flour ?), no way I could fold in the apricots. So I layered the apricots with the batter which worked beautifully. A little bit on the dry side, but still nice with the crunch from the pistachios scattered on top.

  • Cherry sherbet (Sorbetto di ciliegie)

    • panettone on July 03, 2014

      Best sorbet I have ever tasted. Quick and easy to make.

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  • Running With Tweezers

    The book is so stunning and beautiful – it's a photo album of my dream summer. One spent cooking simple, rustic lovely food.

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  • Frisedda

    • Running With Tweezers

      While the frisedda bread might be hard for you to find (as it was for me), a rustic loaf bread or Ciabatta does just fine once toasted.

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  • ISBN 10 0714856231
  • ISBN 13 9780714856230
  • Published Mar 30 2010
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 432
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Phaidon Press
  • Imprint Phaidon Press Ltd

Publishers Text

An international best-seller, "The Silver Spoon" has confirmed Italian food to be one of the most popular cuisines in the world. Many of the best-loved Italian dishes are pure summer, such as bruschetta, salads of ripe tomatoes and basil, beef carpaccio sprinkled with capers and chargrilled artichokes with lemon. The simplicity and pure flavours of Italian cooking make the best use of the wonderful array of produce that is available in summer, such as tomatoes, fresh herbs, peas and beans, aubergines and berries. Italian food is perfect for picnics and barbecues, as well as light lunches and summer entertaining in the garden. Alongside fresh savoury dishes of summer vegetables, meat and fish, simple recipes turn cherries, plums and peaches into a range of sweet summer treats, from light fruit dishes to irresistible cocktails and gelati. The recipes are easy to follow and fully explained for the UK and US markets, and include some of the classics from "The Silver Spoon", along with many new recipes collected by the same team and published in English for the first time. They are utterly authentic, yet simple to prepare in any kitchen, and enable any aspiring cook to create delicious seasonal dishes, while expanding the repertoire of experienced cooks. A comprehensive and lively book with specially commissioned photographs and illustrations, the simple and user-friendly format of "Recipes from an Italian Summer" makes it both accessible and a pleasure to read. "The Silver Spoon" has become the classic in the Italian cooking booklist for the international market and shares the bookshelves with other iconic cookery manuals such as "The Joy of Cooking". With the clarity and flair of its predecessors, "Recipes from an Italian Summer" brings the dishes of the Italian summer to the world.