Pastina con le Prugne

7 Dec 2025

Pastina with Prunes

Pasta with chopped prunes.

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Spaghettini con l'Uvetta 7 Dec 2025

Spaghettini with Raisins

Pasta tossed with raisins and pine nuts before being shoved under the grill. It probably would have taken another few minutes but I ran out of time.

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Maccheroni con Salsa di Mandorle (Ricetta del Trecento) 7 Dec 2025

Maccheroni with Almonds (Fourteenth-Century Recipe)

Pasta with walnut, jam and bread sauce, with spices.

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Taglitelle con Salsa di Noci e Canditi 7 Dec 2025

Tagliatelle with Walnuts and Candied Fruit

Walnuts with candied peel, sugar, raisins and nutmeg.

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Bucatini o Tagliatelle con Salsa di Noci alla Veneta 8 Nov 2025

Veneto-style Bucatini or Tagliatelle with Walnuts and Sugar

A weird one. A mixture of breadcrumbs, pounded walnuts and sugar.

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Gnocchi o Conchiglie con Melazane e Noci 8 Nov 2025

Gnocchi or Conchiglie with Eggplant and Walnuts

Conchiglie pasta bake with a walnut and diced aubergine tomato sauce.

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Bucatini con Salsa di Noci – II Ricetta 18 Oct 2025

Bucatini with Walnuts II

This is an odd one. Bucatini with a walnut, bread and olive oil sauce.

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Bucatini con Salsa di Noci – I Ricetta 18 Oct 2025

Bucatini with Walnuts I

Bucatini with fried walnuts.

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Maccheroncini con Salsa Falstaff 18 Oct 2025

Another difficult one. Fresh horseradish is difficult to buy at the best of times, and then there’s the oil preserved mushrooms and the pickled mushrooms as well.

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Bucatini alla Boscaiola 28 Sep 2025

Bucatini with Mushrooms and Eggplant

Bucatini with mushrooms, aubergine, and tomatoes.

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