Happy Easter everyone! Almost all the recipes in this week's top ten are Italian Easter recipes, and all of them are the flavors of spring. Eating Italy has information on wines of Italy, food in Rome: gelato, pastries and restaurants. There's also gelato in Turin, a photo essay on making pasta by hand, and the best Easter sweets in Italy.
Enjoy this week's Italy on a Plate, and Buona Pasqua a Tutti!
My Choice for This Week's Top 10 Recipes from Around the Web:
Artichoke Tart - Juls Kitchen
Torta Pasqualina and a little about Easter rituals in Sorrento - Z Tasty Life
Pizza Rustica (aka Easter Pie) - Domenica shares her mother's recipe for this Easter dish AND there's a book giveaway - Chronicle Books Blog
Fiadoni - Cheese filled baked Easter pastries - Life in Abruzzo
Casatiello Napoletano - The savory Easter bread from Napoli - Napoli Unplugged
Risotto with Spinach - Scordo
Coratella di Abbacchio con Carciofi (Lamb Pluck/innards with Artichokes) - In "The Offal Truth About Easter," Elizabeth shares one of her favorite spring dishes - Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome
Pastiera Napoletana - The traditional Easter cake of Naples - Emiko Davies
Colomba Pasquale - Italian sweet Easter bread in the shape of a dove - Ciao Chow Linda
Cuzzupe di Pasqua - Michelle makes this Calabrian Easter Bread with Zia Vincenzina - Bleeding Espresso
Eating Italy:
Eating Well in the Golf of Poets - Megan dishes on where the good eats are in the towns around the Golf of Poets in Liguria - Bella Vita In Liguria
Tour del Gelato: Rivareno in Turin - Turin Love
A Week in Italy: 7 Wine Finds from Vinitaly - On the Wine Trail in Italy
Easter Egg Central in one of Rome's oldest chocolate shops - Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome
Eating and Drinking in Monteverde - Restaurant suggestions for the Monteverde area in Rome - Parla Food
Three Italian Wines that Get it Right - Vintrospective
Handmade Pasta: A Picture is Worth 1000 Words - Photo essay of making pasta by hand - Flavor of Italy Blog
Pasticceria Zio - Dolce Tradizionale nel Cuore di Testaccio - A look into a pasticceria in the Testaccio neighborhood of Rome - Tavole Romane (in Italian but there is a translation to English available for each post)
I Migliori 10 Dolci Tipici di Pasqua - Ten Best Typical Italian Easter Desserts - with links to the pastry shops where you can find them - Italiasquisita.net (in Italian)
Upcoming Food and Wine Festivals in Italy:
Sapori delle Crete Senesi (Flavors of Crete Senesi) - April 16 to May 8 - in Tuscany, near Siena - Food and Wine festival with emphasis on the Pecorino cheese of the area and artichokes of Chisure - (Experience Tuscany has details about the Festival in English)
Festa della Fragola Cassibile (Strawberry Festival in Cassibile, Sicily) - April 30 & May 1 and May 7 & 8 - For two weekends, the town of Cassibile (near Syracuse) celebrates strawberries
Cortildivino - April 30 - Lecce - Lecce's Baroque historic center comes alive with good music and the best wines of Puglia on the evening of April 30 (See photo below)
DiteCheese (Say Cheese) Cheese Festival - April 28 to May 1 - Perugia
Riberella Days - April 30 to May 1 - Orange Festival in Ribera, Sicily
Festa della Fragola Terriciola (Strawberry Festival) - Each Saturday and Sunday from May 7 to 22 - Near Pisa in the city of Terriciola - Tuscany Pass has information in English: Strawberry Festival
Wine and the City - May 18 to 21 - Naples - 100 locations throughout the city wine will be the focus of an event and and there will be wine to taste - Napoli Unplugged has information about Wine in the City in English
Vitigno Italia - May 22 to 24 - 7th Annual Wine Festival in Naples at the Castel dell' Ovo - Napoli Unplugged has information about the Wine Festival in English
Firenze Gelato Festival 2011 - May 25 to 29 - Florence - Throughout Florence, they will be celebrating the world of gelato
Le Strada della Mozzarella - May 27 to 30 - Paestum - Festival of Mozzarella di Bufala and also other wine and food of the Paestum area - Check the brochure for program details
Slow Fish 2011 - May 27 to 30 - Fiera di Genova - 5th edition of the International fair dedicated to sustainable fishing
Melodia del Vino - June 28 to July 8 - Festival where Tuscan wines and classical music meet - Various locations in Tuscany (For a description of the Melodia del Vino festival in English - Tuscanycious)
Sagra della Porchetta di Arricia - September 4 - The town Arricia, near Rome, most famous for the roasted suckling pig starts porchetta celebrations on the first Sunday in Septmeber
CousCous Festival - September 20 - 25 - San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily
EuroChocolate - October 14 to 23 - Perugia - The biggest chcolate festival in Italy
Related Posts:
Scenes from CioccolaTo - Chocolate Festival in Turin
Torta Setteveli - Seven Veils Cake from Palermo
Strawberry and Rhubarb Galette
Cantucci - Biscotti from Tuscany
Dining Around Naples with Napoli Unplugged
A Pizza Lover's Odyssey in Naples Italy
Lunch Salento Style at Cantine Menhir
The Art of Making Pasta by Hand: Pugliese Pasta Lesson with Nonna Vata
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The artichoke tart & the risotto look like winners to me. Strangely, the Easter breads didn't appeal to me. Not surprisingly, the Easter "MIGLIORI DOLCI TIPICI" did, though!
Hope your Easter was delicious.
Posted by: Paula | April 24, 2011 at 11:46 PM
Thanks so much for mentioning me among this great list of goodies.
Posted by: Ciaochowlinda | April 26, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Well, everything looks good to me. I love anything Italian anyway!
Posted by: Jozee | April 26, 2011 at 01:18 PM
I love food and really fond of cooking too.
Posted by: Veracious | April 29, 2011 at 02:22 AM
Thanks for all the kind comments everyone.
Linda - You're very welcome. You've inspired me to try making the Colombo next Easter. Well done!
Posted by: Kathy | April 29, 2011 at 10:30 AM
I love those pizzas. reminds me of when we do home made pizza, fresh dough and really thin crusts. yum.
Posted by: Carol | September 07, 2011 at 06:14 PM