If you like sweets and pasta, then this week's Italy on a Plate is the perfect place for you. Many pasta recipes and five dolci recipes in this week's roundup! I think I'm going to have to try out that chocolate tart with Sicilian pistachios for myself. In the Eating Italy section, there are reviews, with lots of photos, from three festivals in Italy. Two of them are from the biggest of festivals right now in Italy - Salone del Gusto in Turin and Eurochocolate in Perugia. If you like what you see, you can plan a trip around those festivals for next year. Hope you enjoy this week's round up. Buon Appetito!
My choices for this week's Top 10 Italian Recipes around the web:
Oven Dried Figs from Italian Food Notes
A truly classic Tuscan recipe, Acquacotta, (literally cooked water - but this dish is a little more substantial) from Experience Tuscany
The Proud Italian Cook shows how easy it can be to make Homemade Ricotta Cavatelli
Filled Pasta Parcels with Potatoes, Onions, and Truffle Honey from Juls Kitchen
The Italian Dish shares her recipe for Spinach Gnocchi along with some fabulous Fall photos
Chocoholics will fall off the wagon with this Chocolate Custard Tart with Sicilian Pistachios from La Cucina Italiana
This looks so sweet and sensational Butterscotch Budino from The Panini Girl
Beautiful Italian dessert that you see in every pasticceria in Italy, Cream Puffs in Venice makes her Crostata with Jam Filling from her zia's recipe
A fried treat from Liguria Bella Apple Fritters - Frittelle di Mele
Biscotti al Pistachio from 101 Cookbooks and her recent travels in Rome
Eating Italy:
A tour of Bocconcini from the Salone del Gusto in Turin with Volevo Fare Lo Chef (In Italian, but the delicious food photos speak a universal language)
Katie at Parla Food gives us the scoop on Eataly coming to Rome in 2011. Lucky Romans and those traveling to Rome. (Now if they'll only open an Eataly in San Francisco)
La Tavola Marche has Eurochocolate Photos from the chocolate festival going on right now in Perugia
Sicily Guide lets us in on everything we wanted to know About Prickly Pears, (fichi di India) even how to peel these prickly fruits that grow wild in Sicily
Review of the Olio e Olive Festival in Cumiana from Bella Baita View
Upcoming Wine and Food Festivals in Italy:
Totano Festival (Sagra di Totano) on the Island of Capraia, off the Tuscany coastline, on October 30 and 31
The Alba Truffle Festival celebrates the famous white truffles of Alba every weekend beginning October 9 until November 14
Every Sunday in October the Ottobrata Zafferanese Festival (in Zafferano near Catania in Sicily) holds a festival celebrating the local food and wine of the area
Chestnut Festivals Galore throughout Italy in October - from Italy Magzine
In Antillo, a city near Taormina in Sicily, there is a Chestnut Festival (Sagre della Castagna) on October 30 and 31 and a Pig and Wild Boar Festival (Sagre del Maiale e Chingale) Deceber 4 and 5
List of Fall Food Festivals in Emilia Romagna
Learn about and taste the wines of Campania at The Campania Wine Gala on October 31 - information on NapoliUnplugged
More chocolate for us chocoholics: Cioccolato in Piazza, a chocolate fest in the town of Carpi November 5-7
The candy Northern Italians associate with Christmas, torrone, has its own festival - Torrone Festival in Cremona is November 19 - 21
Christmas markets are a Germanic tradition, but in Northern Italy, you can find some Christmas markets with an "Italian Flavor." Live Travel Mountains provides information on 2010 Christmas Markets in the South Tirol and Trentino Regions of Italy
Another Christmas Market in the North of Italy - The Milan Christmas Market is from December 5 to 8
A magical event that I would recommend attending at least once in your life, Carnevale di Venezia happens from February 26 - March 8, 2011
Related Posts:
Camogli - One of Many Picturesque Towns in Liguria
The Dish from Rome - Braised Oxtail (La Coda alla Vaccinara)
Torta Caprese - Flourless Chocolate Cake from Capri
Neapolitan Style Mussels (Cozze alla Marinara)
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So happy to find out about the Christmas markets in the north - might actually be something I can get to one of these years!
Really amazed at the number of festivals that are taking place...any one of them would be fantastic to attend. Would love to get back to Piedmont for the truffle festival...something so romantic about that region!
Since I can't get enough of chocolate, the Chocolate Custard tart tops my list of favorites this week :) bon dimanche!
Posted by: Tuula M | October 24, 2010 at 05:08 AM
thanks for linking to my Eataly post. the consensus has been that an Eataly in Rome is like carrying coals to Newcastle.
Posted by: Katie Parla | October 24, 2010 at 03:56 PM
Well, there are certainly many things Italian happening all around!
Posted by: Jen Laceda | October 25, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Italian food is my favorite. I would love to go to all of these places. The weight gain might be worth it. But, wait a minute, if I could walk from place to place, weight gain would not be a factor.
Posted by: Jozee | October 28, 2010 at 04:07 PM