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Ossobuco alla milanese
Perhaps the most emblematic dish of the cuisine of Lombardy, the northern Italian region of which Milan is the capital, ossobuco (or oss bus in Milanese dialect) is veal shank, cut into thick rounds of shank meat around a marrowbone. It is typically served with risotto alla milanese, one of the few examples in traditional Italian cooking of the piatto unico combinin

A Word of Thanks
Dear readers, Memorie di Angelina has reached another milestone: it now has over 750 followers and subscribers! Some of you follow the blog through Google Friends Connect, some through Facebook's Networked Blogs, some by email or a reader, some on Twitter. Whichever way you choose to follow these posts, thank you for your attention and loyalty. Nonna Angelina would be so proud! Sincerely,Frank

Fregula e salsiccia
A friend recently gave me a gift of fregula, a typical Sardinian pasta. I had heard of fregula, but had never eaten it—nor did I know any recipes for preparing it, so I dove into my cookbooks and surfed the internet for more information, finding this recipe for making fregula with sausages that intrigued me. You basically proceed as if you were making a ris

Strozzapreti ai funghi
There are all sorts of mushroom sauces, some of which have made their appearance on this blog: the mushroom and tomato sauce, for example, that goes so well with dried pasta, or the mushroom cream sauce for gnocchi or even

Fagiolini in umido
While Sundays dinners at Angelina's house were once-a-week, belly-busting, meaty affairs, she practically lived on vegetables during the week. This was long before vegetarianism went mainstream and she would not have thought of herself as a 'weekday vegetarian' or anything of that s