Italian recipes

This Tiramisu recipe uses a Genoise cake instead of ladyfingers. Genoise is a simple cake made with eggs, sugar, flour and butter. It also uses two layers of cream, one made with Mascarpone cheese and the other with whipped cream. For the coffee part, it uses a combination of Espresso coffee and Marsala wine or brandy. The recipe looks complicated but it is delicious and quite simple and easy to make. 

Tiramisu, is a famous Italian desert, typically made of two layers of ladyfingers soaked in espresso coffee, topped with a cream mixture made with mascarpone cheese, alcohol (usually rum), and sometimes a zabaglione, which is a creamy mixture made with eggs and sugar. This recipe is one of the many variations of Tiramisu, using a zabaglione, Amaretto liqeur, Kahlua and rum.
 

A variation of a tiramisu recipe by Sophia Loren from a show on the Food TV Network. Like most Tiramisu recipes, this one uses eggs, Mascarpone cheese, Espresso coffee and ladyfingers as basic ingredients. The different with this recipe is the use of orange liqueur together with the Espresso coffee to flavour the ladyfingers.
 

Pasta with a tuna, anchovy, olive, caper and basil tomato sauce. This dish is very similar to pasta Puttanesca with the main difference being the use of tuna meat.
 

An healthy spaghetti dish using a lemon and olive oil based sauce. Unlike most spaghetti recipes, the sauce in this one is not cooked; instead, fresh lemon juice together with olive oil and Parmesan cheese are used as the sauce. This is a great recipe for people who like the taste and arome of fresh lemon juice. Use good quality, fresh lemons, preferably organic.
 

A simple Italian desert, panna cota is cooked cream with vanilla, topped with a coulis, compote or fresh fruit. This recipe uses a compote made with an assortment of berries, sugar and muscat (or moscato) wine.
 

A recipe for the classic Italian bread, ciabatta. Ciabatta literally meaning slipper, got its name because of its slipper like shape. The bread is made in two steps. In the first one, the 'sponge' is prepared and in the second one, the bread is made using the sponge. The sponge will need to rest for a day so to make ciabatta, you have to start a day ahead.
 

A tasty, low fat salad recipe that is great as a starter or a light main dish. This salad uses cannellini beans, dried or canned, black olives, fresh basil leaves, lemon rind and a simple olive oil based dressing. If you use dried beans, you will have to soak them overnight, and cook them afterwords. Using canned beans will save you the preparation time.
 

A famous Italian salad recipe that uses tomatoes, cucumbers, celery and red onion together with leftover ciabatta bread. Easy to make and healthy, this salad can be served alone, as a light meal or as a starter.
 

A delicious pasta dish using fresh mussels, steamed in white wine and herbs and then cooked with olive oil, garlic, capers and black olives. This dish is extremely easy and fast to prepare, provided you have prepared the mussels.