Bologna where Steve Samson’s mother, Anna, grew up, tortellini is the dish of celebration, part of the meal at every special occasion — birthdays, weddings, even New Year’s Eve. So when the chef/owner ...

Chef Franco Dunn of One World Sausage, which is sold at local farmers markets, calls himself a sausage anthropologist. He uses the web to reach out to sausage makers around the world to uncover ...

Acclaimed Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura traveled from Modena to the TODAY kitchen to share a couple of his favorite holiday recipes. He shows us how to make roasted sausages with a ...

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Soak lentils overnight in water. In a casserole sauté onion, anchovies and pancetta in olive oil. Cook till tender, add sage leaves and tomato paste. Add strained lentils and cover with water, add ...

Italian native Silvia Cianci, now a resident of Edwardsville and a chef at Louisa Foods, was kind enough to share her own recipe for Cotechino and Lentils as an alternative for the traditional New ...

Cotechino is a kind of cooked salami, available from most good Italian delis and traditionally served with braised lentils or beans. Those little, quick-cooking, mixed pulses are a great larder ...

Once you’ve had a good cotechino, sliced and crisped so the skin in the mix tastes like crackling, you’ll crave it forever after. Here the earthiness of the lentils cuts the richness of the meat. Heat ...

Sign up to receive the Gourmet Traveller newsletter and offers we choose to share with you straight to your inbox The cotechino is one of Italy’s great gifts to the ...

In Emilia-Romagna it’s traditional to ring in the wintry New Year by serving lentils either with cotechino, a cured sausage sticky with collagen, or with zampone, stuffed pig’s trotters, to bring luck ...

1 cup dried lentils, washed in cold water and drained Salt Freshly ground black pepper 1. Cook the sausage. If using a partially dried or heavily salt-cured sausage, soak in cold water for at least 4 ...