Marina Salad, with walnuts and bleu d’Aoste cheese

Today we’re proposing a fresh salad, to perfectly end up a meal in these first warm days 😉 . A fresh green salad with lettuce and radicchio, enriched with walnuts and Bleu d’Aoste cheese. A bit thank you goes to our friend Marina, for the excellent dinner she prepared for us time ago and for giving us this fantastic recipe. This … Read More

Gorchlach, the legend of Cordelia – such a tasty series!

Today we are going to talk about this television series made in the Aosta Valley! So strike in the kitchen! 🙂 Or almost… That’s right, because Fratelli ai Fornelli is the first, unique and inimitable culinary partner of this fiction 🙂 ! But let’s step back for one minute. “Gorchlach: the legend of Cordelia” begins to take shape two years ago, from … Read More

Spicy mulled white wine eggnog

Could we leave you without a sauce with which to enjoy the panettone? Absolutely not! Eggnog, you know, it is traditional in this time of year, but we wanted to give it a new flavour that connected it to Christmas even more 🙂 ! So we’ve added some spices to the traditional recipe… And the Spicy mulled white wine eggnog was born. Firstly … Read More

Medlar cheese

A cheese made with fruits? It really is, and you’ll certainly see that the flavour of this dish with strange name will perfectly fit Christmas time with its spicy scent! The medlar cheese comes directly from spicy fruit pastes widespread during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which were often prepared with quinces and pears and, we could say, are … Read More

Saffron mashed potatoes

Serving our roasted chicken with cider without a worthy side dish would be a shame. That’s why we made this amber saffron mashed potatoes 🙂 . Mashed potatoes is a classic side dish we love so much; for Christmas lunch we wanted to change it a bit , replacing the black pepper and nutmeg, with saffron and crushed All spice (just … Read More

Roasted chicken with cider

It’s time for the main course of Christmas dinner: roasted chicken with cider and bay leaves 🙂 ! Due to the cooking in cider, the chicken meat is very tender and apple flavored, but not overly sweet because the acidity of the cider is enhanced by the addition of small green apples.  Yet, the secret lies in the use of tiny immature … Read More

Renaissance medlar tartlets

Now that we have learned how to clean the medlar and make a delicious jam, we can prepare a delicate tart straight from 1653. Yes, you read that right, a recipe published for the first time in the book “A Book of Fruits & Flowers. The shewing Nature and Use of them, either for Meat or Medicine “, and that … Read More

Rabbit with dried plums

How many of you have tasted or at least heard of the famous “Seuppa à la vapeuleunnentse” or “Favo” from Ozein? Today we want to share with you a recipe of our valley, perhaps less known but equally tasty: the rabbit with dried plums, accompanied by snow peas and boiled potatoes 🙂 That’s quicker to eat than to pronounce it! … Read More

Montblanc – Chestnut dessert from Valle d’Aosta

And after the first three dishes of our Christmas dinner, here we come to the dessert! Today we’re presenting the Montblanc, a popular soft chestnut dessert topped with fresh whipped cream. The name of this cake derives from the Mount (from Aosta Valley), and of course it also kind of looks like it. The origin is, of course, contested between Italy … Read More

All Saints salad

The time has come to present another traditional recipe from our valley: a salad made with endive traditionally eaten during Halloween, flavoured with chilli and anchovies and topped with walnut oil and apple vinegar. In every family from Valle d’Aosta they used to enjoy the eve all together consuming this salad remembering the dead: a convivial meal to gather the … Read More