Cooking with Patty, my personal collection of Italian recipes

This is an easy way to put together a complete meal.

Polenta is a very common dish on our table especially in the winter. It’s the perfect accompaniment for  stews or sausages and ideal with some fish dishes. Polenta itself can be enriched with cheeses and butter or filled with meat or cheeses and baked. This particular polenta pasticciata recipe is from Lombardy, one of the [...]

An important winter staple all across the North of Italy.

This classic recipe from Lombardia, also called costolette alla Milanese, goes well anytime of year.

This is great dish that goes well with polenta.

This Tirolean recipe from the extreme northern regions of Italy is really good if you like a spicy beef dish. The best way to serve it is with a soft polenta.

We make meat loaf on the stove rather than in the oven. If you like meat loaf recipes this one will be a pleasant surprise.

The translation is meatballs, but we don’t put them in our spaghetti sauce.

If you like rabbit this is a tasty and easy to make recipe. As for the name “alla campagnola” means rustic or country style, since it doesn’t sound well translated I’ve just left it in Italian.

A delicate way to prepare rice with flavors from the sea.

This is a really tasty way to prepare pork loin.

Add the flavor of rosemary to your pork chops.

Not a typical beef stew as this this recipe is an all meat dish cooked in red wine.

The exact translation for Bauletti would be, “little trunks.” This dish presents itself well on the table and is good too.

A light second dish that is good whenever you can get fresh zucchini. This is one of those kind of dishes my mom made every so often.

A summer salad that will brighten up your day with its vivid colors. Mozzarella pearls, fresh ripe tomatoes, black olives and capers make up one of the most common salads in Italy. This particular recipe is extremely tasty thanks to a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.

This is an old recipe for meatballs when people couldn’t afford to buy meat that often and turned frugality into an art. Meat in fact was mainly eaten on Sunday and Monday was usually the day for meatballs using the leftovers from the previous day.

This is a really tasty way to prepare veal.

Thin slices of veal filled with prosciutto, Parmesan cheese and cultivated mushroom slivers. They can be prepared hours ahead and refrigerated until ready to be cooked.

A classic recipe with Marsala wine. I learned to make it when I was six years old.

The famous dish from Lombardia is usually served with Milan style Risotto. if you don’t want to serve them with risotto polenta is a nice alternative.

A great Venetian recipe that my mother makes often. Its taste is so delicate that even kids like it. The best way to serve Fegato alla Veneziana is with polenta.