All my recipes in one place

A full recipe index of my recipes over the past 14 years

I will update this as I can, and possibly, when I find the time, I might add the 200 recipes from my old Regional Italian Food column at Food 52 as well.

On measurements

I use metric weight rather than volume in my recipes as I find it more accurate and, personally, more convenient. If you rely on cups, please note that Australian, British and US cups and tablespoons all have slightly different measurements – how confusing! Where there are cup measurements, I use a 250ml cup measurement a 20ml tablespoon (so, for example, if you’re using US tablespoons which are 15ml, be generous). If you need to convert these measurements, just starting typing the conversion into google and you’ll find the answer! If in doubt, weight is always the most accurate.

Shortcuts (these will take you to the recipes tagged under these themes for a browse)

Vegetarian
Pasta
Baking
Tuscany
Pizza
Kids in the kitchen

Essentials

• Brodo di pollo o cappone (chicken or capon broth)
• Brodo di carne (beef stock)
• Broad bean pesto
• Citron syrup (or indeed any citrus syrup)
• Crema Inglese (creme anglais, or pouring custard)
• Mascarpone
• Pomarola (homemade salsa di pomodoro)
• Raw tomato sauce for hot summer days
• Ricotta
• Sala Verde (parsley sauce to put on everything)
• Soffritto

Antipasti e Merende ~ Starters and snacks

• Bread cake with goat’s curd, pumpkin and prunes
• Bruschetta
• Cinnamon fritters with stale bread
• Crostini di Fegatini (Tuscan chicken liver pate crostini)
• Crostini con Baccelli (fava bean crostini)
• Crostini with cannellini beans and marinated white anchovies
• Crostone di Salsiccia e Stracchino (sausage and soft cheese crostone)
• Fiori di acacia fritti (fried robinia flowers)
• Frittelle di sammole (wild garlic fritters)
• Pane con pomodoro (bread with tomatoes)
• Panini di lampredotto (Florentine tripe sandwiches with salsa verde)
• Polenta crostini with mushrooms
• Prosciutto and wilted greens crostone
• Radicchio and walnut spread
• Smoked tuna and artichoke panini
• Torta di ceci (chickpea flatbread)
• Tortine di mozzarella (stale bread and mozzarella cakes)

Handmade Bread, Pies, Pizza

• Artichoke tart
• Cherry Tomato Schiacciata
• Date, fig and walnut focaccia
• Focaccia Pugliese
• Pane all’olio (olive oil bread rolls)
• Pane alle olive (olive bread)
• Pizza with homemade mascarpone and speck
• Pizza dough, Roman style
• Pizza (ancient grain, sourdough) with truffle, artichoke and anchovies
• Schiacciata all’uva (Florentine grape bread)
• Schiacciatine (mini focaccias topped with good things)
• Torta Pasqualina (Ligurian Easter pie)

Pasta

• Agnolotti filled with pork and cabbage
• Bucatini alla Reggina (Calabrian style bucatini with tomato, breadcrumbs and chilli)
• Casunziei (beet ravioli with poppyseed sauce)
• Egg yolk ravioli
• Farfalle con Pistacchi e Pancetta (fresh bowtie pasta with pistachio and pancetta)
• Lasagne di pane carasau con funghi e salsiccia (Mushroom and sausage lasagne with Sardinian flatbread)
• Maltagliati with rosemary, beans and pancetta
• “Olive leaf” pasta with tomato and mozzarella
• Orecchiette con broccoli
• Paglia e fieno alla fiesolana (handmade green and gold pasta with peas and prosciutto)
• Pappardelle all’aretina (Arezzo style duck pappardelle)
• Pappardelle con ovoli e nepitella (pappardelle with Caesar mushrooms and calamint)
• Pappardelle con funghi 
• Pasta con le sarde (pasta with sardines and fennel)
• Pasta e ceci (pasta with chickpeas)
• Pasta mista con patate e cozze (mixed short pasta with potatoes and mussels)
• Pasta verde all’ortica (Fresh nettle pasta)
• Pasta with mascarpone and walnuts
• Pici all’aglione (pici with classic tomato and garlic sauce)
• Pici al sugo finto (handmade pici pasta with “fake sauce”, a vegetable sugo)
• Pici con le briciole (pici pasta with breadcrumbs)
• Ragu Bolognese di Zia Nerina (Aunt Nerina’s bolognese ragu)
• Ragu di coniglio (rabbit ragu for pasta)
• Ravioloni with braised pork cheek
• Ricotta, feta, mint ravioli
• Ricotta tortelli
• Spaghetti con agretti (spaghetti with monk’s beard)
• Spaghetti con le vongole, a guide
• Spiced walnut linguine
• Squid ink pasta
• Sugo Burgiardo (sausage ragu)
• Tagliolini al Limone (tagliolini pasta with lemon sauce)
• Tortellini all’ortica (nettle tortellini)

Crespelle, gnudi, gnocchi etc

• Borage and ricotta crepes
• Carrot and ricotta gnudi
• Chestnut gnocchi with walnut sauce
• Chicken gnocchi in broth
• Crespelle verdi di pesce (spinach crepes with fish ragu)
• Gluten free gnocchetti
• Gnocchi alla Romana (Roman style baked semolina gnocchi)
• Gnocchi di zucca e castagne (pumpkin and chestnut gnocchi)
• Gnudi di ricotta e spinaci (classic Tuscan gnudi with a video)
• Ricotta gnocchi

Soup and Risotto

• Acquacotta Viterbese (wild greens and bread soup with poached eggs)
• Biancomangiare (Renaissance chicken and almond milk soup)
• Brodetto di Pesce (Tuscan fish soup)
• Chicken and farro soup
• Minestrone
• Pappa al Pomodoro (Tuscan bread and tomato soup)
• Passata di zucchine e i fiori (zucchini and zucchini flower soup)
• Ribollita (Tuscan kale soup)
• Risotto con zucca gialla e zafferano (Pumpkin and saffron risotto)
• Risotto in Cantina (risotto with white wine)
• Risotto with pan-roasted quails
• Zuppa Corsa from Garibaldi Innamorato (Corsican fish soup with crostini)
• Zuppa di zucchine e i fiori (zucchini and zucchini flower soup)
• Zuppa Certosina (fish and egg drop soup from a Tuscan monastery)
• Zuppa di Moscardini (baby octopus soup)
• Zuppa di pesce (fish soup from Giglio island)

Meat

• Bistecca Fiorentina (Florentine steak)
• Bombette (Pugliese crumbed veal and cheese skewers)
• Braciole Rifatte (Tuscan crumbed veal in tomato sauce)
• Bracioline al Burro (Veal with butter)
• Braciuole nella scamerita (Pork neck with cavolo nero)
• Chicken and ricotta meatballs (and cooking one-handed)
• Cibreo (a forgotten historic Florentine dish)
• Cinghiale in dolce-forte (Wild boar in chocolate sauce, a recipe from Acquacotta)
• Coniglio alla cacciatora (Hunter’s stew with rabbit and olives)
• Coniglio fritto (Tuscan fried rabbit)
• Cotoletta Milanese (breaded veal chops)
• Guinea fowl stew (faraona all’aceto)
• Involtini di carne (Fabrizia’s Sicilian meat involtini)
• Polpette di Nonna Anna (Pugliese meatballs)
• Polpette di trippa (deep fried tripe balls)
• Pollo al burro (butter chicken)
• Pollo in Galantina (stuffed, deboned Tuscan style chicken)
• Salsicce con uva (sausages with grapes)
• Spiedini di carne (Tuscan sausage, chicken and bread skewers)
• Squab stuffed with sausage and fresh herbs
• Tacchino Tonnato (turkey with tuna sauce)
• Triglie alla Livornese (Livorno style pan fried mullet with fresh tomato)
• Tuscan style meat skewers or Spiedini di carne alla toscana from Tortellini at Midnight

Eggs

• Eggs and anchovies (uova strapazzate con acciughe)
• Fried eggs with spring truffles
• Frittata di spaghetti
• Frittatine Trippate (frittata strips in tomato sauce)
• Uova al Pomodoro (eggs poached in tomato sauce)
• Uova al Pomodoro di Sarah Fioroni (Sarah Fioroni’s Uova al Pomodoro)

Seafood

• Cozze ripiene (stuffed mussels)
• Orata al cartoccio (Paper-baked sea bream)
• Pittea Tropeana (fresh sardine and bread cake from Tropea)
• Sarde a beccafico (baked sardines, Sicilian style)
• Slow-braised stuffed squid, a little Arabic influence
• Ostriche Tarantine in Tiella (Taranto style oysters)
• Oysters wrapped in lemon leaves
• Panzanella with vongole
• Polpette di tonno (deep fried tuna croquettes)
• Sarde in Saor (sweet and sour fried sardines)

Vegetables and salads

• Beans cooked in a Tuscan jar
• Bean salad (favourite summer salad)
• Blood orange and fennel salad
• Caprese salad
• Carciofi in umido con la nepitella (braised artichokes with calamint)
• Carciofi ritti (stuffed stewed artichokes)
• Citron rind salad
• Fagiolini sfiziosi (Pugliese green beans)
• Farro salad
• Insalata di carciofi (Raw artichoke salad)
• Insalata di cedro (citron rind salad)
• Insalata gigliese (a summery tomato and celery salad from Giglio island)
• Insalata di punterelle (punterelle/chichory shoot salad)
• Involtini di cavolo con patate e funghi (Cabbage involtini with potato and mushrooms)
• Panzanella di Bronzino (cucumber and bread salad, the original panzanella)
• Pomarola (Nonna Lina’s tomato sauce)
• Radicchio, four ways
• Verdure Primaverili (Fabrizia’s spring vegetable stew, a bit like vignaiola)

Frozen desserts

• Almond milk gelato
• Amaretti Ice Cream Sandwiches
• Gelato di fior di latte al rosmarino (milk and rosemary gelato)
• Granita al melone e peperoncino (melon and chili granita)
• Semifreddo with cherries
• Sour cherry and cinnamon sorbet
• Stracciatella al tartufo (truffle and dark chocolate gelato)

Desserts

• An egg for a child (like a zabaione)
• Apricot Jam Crostata
• Baked Apples
• Berlingozzo cake
• Biancomangiare (almond milk pudding)
• Black locust (Acacia) flower cake
• Blood orange and rosemary cake
• Bomboloni (jam-filled donut balls)
• Buckwheat and jam cake
• Budino di riso (baked rice pudding) 
• Chocolate, almond and lemon torta from Sicily
• Chocolate cake (eggless, butterless)
• Chocolate cake from Anna Tasca Lanza (flourless, effortless)
• Cinnamon bomboloncini
• Cinnamon fritters
• Colomba for Easter
• Crostata di marmellata
• Crostata di ricotta e pere coscia (ricotta and baby pear tart)
• Crostata di susine selvatiche (wild plum tart)
• Crostatine di ciligie (little cherry tarts)
• Elderflower fritters (a Renaissance recipe)
• Elizabeth David’s Chocolate Cake
• Fig Frangipane Tart
• Four ingredient birthday cake (happens to be gluten free and dairy free)
• Frittelle di Riso (rice fritters)
• Kaiserschmarren or Frittelle spezzate (broken pancakes)
• Little lemon polenta cakes (a favourite)
• Mandarin jelly
• Maritozzi (Roman buns with whipped cream)
• Mascarpone and blackberry chocolate tart
• Mascarpone and blackberry cake
• Mascarpone and raspberry no-bake pandoro cake
• Mascarpone cream with fresh strawberry sauce 
• Millefoglie (puff pastry and diplomat cream layered cake)
• Minne di Sant’Agata (Sicilian ricotta pastries)
• Necci (Tuscan chestnut flour crepes)
• Nocciolata sponge roll
• Pandiramerino (rosemary and raisin buns)
• Panforte (spicy Sienese fruit and nut cake)
• Panforte with chestnut flour (gluten free and vegan)
• Panna cotta (the ultimate wobbly panna cotta)
• Pastiera Napoletana (Easter cake from Naples)
• Peach and amaretti tart
• Pistachio, polenta and olive oil cake
• Polenta and poached pear cake
• Pumpkin bread with Tuscan spices
• Ricotta, spelt and dark chocolate cake
• Ricotta al forno, the simplest baked ricotta cake
• Robinia flower cake
• Robinia flower fritters
• Rose petal and ricotta tartlets
• Saffron and ricotta frosting for cake
• Sanguinaccio dolce (blood and chocolate pudding)
• Semolino pudding with loquats
• Schiacciata di Pasqua (Tuscan Easter cake)
• Semolina cake
• Strawberry Tiramisu
• Stuffed peaches
• Swiss roll with alchermes mascarpone cream and pistachio
• Tiramisu, the classic way
• Tiramisu alla fragola (strawberry tiramisu)
• Tiramisu, with fig and ricotta
• Torrone sardo (Sardinian nougat)
• Torta alle nocciole (hazelnut and espresso cake)
• Torta di Cachi (persimmon cake)
• Torta Caprese (flourless chocolate and almond cake)
• Torta con i ciccioli (memories of an old cake with pork scratchings)
• Torta di mandorla (Nonna Vera’s simple almond cake)
• Torta Margherita (three-ingredient, gluten free sponge cake)
• Torta di Mele (apple cake)
• Torta di Noci (walnut cake with lemon buttercream, a truly divine cake)
• Torta di Pasta Frolla (pastry and jam tart)
• Torta di susine (plum and ricotta tart)
• Torta di Zucca Gialla (Artusi’s pumpkin pie)
• Tronco di natale (Christmas yule log)
• White pound cake
• Zabaione (see also An egg for a child)

Pastries and cookies

• Befanini (soft Tuscan children’s cookies)
• Biscotti di meliga (polenta cookies)
• Braided Fig and Walnut Pastries (treccia con fichi e noci)
• Cantuccini (Tuscan biscotti)
• Cavallucci cookies
• Celli Ripieni (jam filled cookie dumplings)
• Chestnut flour and fig biscotti
• Hazelnut, brown sugar and espresso biscotti
• Lady fingers, homemade (savoiardi)
• Polenta and elderflower cookies

Drinks

• Affogato
• Bellini
• Caffe Leccese (coffee and almond milk from Lecce)
• Cedrello (Citron peel liqueur)
• Italian hot chocolate
• Marco’s Martini Rosso Cocktail
• Nocino (walnut liqueur)
• Spritz (and all about aperitivo)

Preserves and the like

• Acetosa di lamponi (raspberry vinegar)
• Apricot Jam
• Bitter orange marmalade
• Cherry jam
• Ciliegie sotto spirito (boozy cherries)
• Fig Honey
• Grape and fig leaf spoon sweets
• Grape jam
• Lemon marmalade
• Melanzane sott’olio (Eggplant preserved in olive oil)
• Rose petal jam
• Saffron and ricotta frosting for a birthday cake
• Saffron salt
• Strawberry Tree Jam (marmellata di corbezzoli)
• Sweet pastry
• Sweet Tomato Jam
• Tropea onion jam
• White peach and basil jam
• White Truffle Butter

Other things

• Dyeing with turmeric
• Homemade tofu
• How to make chestnut polenta
• How to make tomato paste in Sicily
• Making prosciutto in San Miniato
• What we are drinking

Photo above of my ricotta and spinach gnudi by Julie Wilson-Haines.