Organic, rustic, home cooking Italian traditional food recipes
 

Italian Traditional Food Made Easy

Organic, Rustic Italian Home Cooking Recipes

Spaghetti with garlic

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to Italian Traditional Food

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Italian traditional food is meant to be simple, fresh and delicious. I am happy to present some of my favourite rustic, peasant but very tasty Italian traditional food. In other words, home cooking at it best!!

Some of these rural Italian food recipes have been used for centuries by peasant farmer's wives (Pattona, Pattona Dura and Torta di Patate, for example) to feed hungry households, so have well stood the test of time. They are not the highly polished and intensely decorated type of Italian cuisine recipes that you will find in most modern Italian restaurants but the very basic home cooking that will guarantee a satisfied smile from even the most fastidious of eaters.

Italian cuisine is all about simplicity and using only freshest, best ingredients, then using basic cooking techniques to enhance the natural flavour of the food.

Pizza recipe from Italian Traditional Food

What could be more basic than the pizza? Yet, this simple dish has found world-wide fame simply because it tastes so good!

You may be surprised to learn that "Polenta" and "Focaccia" (the most humble of Italian peasant cuisine) for example, have recently very successfully found their way onto the menus of the very best of restaurants. So, please do not be a food snob just because it may have humble origins.

I have used these Italian traditional food recipes to successfully feed my entire family for the past forty five years.

Traditional Italian food is meant to be enjoyed!

Don't be afraid to try something new!

Penne pasta recipe

Have a go at making some of these tasty dishes!

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Through this website, I hope to share with you my love of traditional Italian food in other words rural, peasant cooking in all it's simplicity.

I hope to inspire everyone to try new food recipes, and to fully experience the joy of Italian cooking. I will be adding in new rustic, Italian food recipes and articles periodically, so please keep on visiting the site to ensure that you have the latest recipes and articles.

I have included reviews of the most popular Italian cookbooksand an online Kitchen Storewhere you can select from a vast range of the latest Italian and International recipe cookbooks, kitchen tools and gourmet food.

Send in your favourite Italian recipe:

Do you have a favourite Italian cooking recipe? Have you discovered a tasty Italian dish? Then why not send the recipe in together with a photo of the finished dish and, if appropriate, it will be published on this site.

Send in your recipes (with photos) as an attached Word document via email to:

info [at] italiantraditionalfood.com

Look forward to reading all your recipes soon.

Happy cooking!

Anna Fiori

Anna Fiori

Italian Traditional Food

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