Home cooking
Italy
90 dishes, kept by 4 cooks who put their own weeknights on the shelf.
The Italy shelf
What Italy cooks when it is cooking for itself.
One catalog, seen from one kitchen. The shelf opens on what households here cooked this week and closes on what gets made in twenty minutes, because that is what a weeknight actually looks like.
Cooked most this week
Chicken Cacciatore
Lucia
55 min
Pesto Pasta Salad
Marco
30 min
Affettati e Formaggio (Cold Cuts and Cheese Plate)
Fette Biscottate con Burro e Marmellata (Rusks with Butter and Jam)
Fettuccine Alfredo
Marco
25 min
Frittata di Zucchine (Courgette Frittata)
Italian Wedding Soup
Marco
60 min
Minestra di Verdure con Pastina (Vegetable Soup with Tiny Pasta)
Minestrone Soup
Lucia
45 min
Pasta alla Gricia
Peperonata (Stewed Peppers)
Pesce al Forno con Patate (Baked Fish with Potatoes)
Everyone calls me nonna now, even people who are not my grandchildren. I cook like it too.
Lunch, without deciding twice
Cacio e Pepe
Lucia
20 min
Caprese Sandwich
Marco
10 min
Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
Fagiolini all'Agro (Green Beans with Oil and Lemon)
Fettuccine Alfredo
Marco
25 min
Finocchi Gratinati (Baked Fennel)
Frittata di Zucchine (Courgette Frittata)
Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
Insalata di Finocchi e Arance (Fennel and Orange Salad)
Insalata di Pomodori (Tomato Salad)
Insalata Mista (Mixed Salad)
Insalata Verde (Green Salad)
Tonight's dinners
Affettati e Formaggio (Cold Cuts and Cheese Plate)
Baked Manicotti
Lucia
65 min
Baked Ziti
Marco
60 min
Beef Ragu with Pappardelle
Lucia
180 min
Butternut Squash Risotto
Marco
50 min
Cacio e Pepe
Lucia
20 min
Chicken Cacciatore
Lucia
55 min
Chicken Florentine
Marco
35 min
Chicken Marsala
Lucia
40 min
Chicken Parmesan
Marco
50 min
Chicken Piccata
Lucia
30 min
Chicken Saltimbocca
Marco
30 min
Italy, dish of the day
Stuffed Shells
Italian home cooking, and on the plate it is the dish at the centre.
Under thirty minutes
Affettati e Formaggio (Cold Cuts and Cheese Plate)
Cacio e Pepe
Lucia
20 min
Caffe Latte con Biscotti (Milk Coffee with Biscuits)
Caprese Sandwich
Marco
10 min
Chicken Piccata
Lucia
30 min
Chicken Saltimbocca
Marco
30 min
Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
Creamy Tomato Penne
Marco
30 min
Fagiolini all'Agro (Green Beans with Oil and Lemon)
Fette Biscottate con Burro e Marmellata (Rusks with Butter and Jam)
Fettuccine Alfredo
Marco
25 min
Frittata di Zucchine (Courgette Frittata)
Or start from the recipes
Plan a week from Italy
Dinejot builds the week around this kitchen: the same spice tolerance, the same effort on a Wednesday, and the things nobody at your table will eat, left out by construction.