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TRIPE RECIPE FLORENTINE WAY (trippa fiorentina) – All You Need To Know!

06/07/2017 by Filippo Trapella 28 Comments

Tripe recipe made Florentine way (called in Italian “Trippa alla Fiorentina”) is one of the most challenging dishes of Tuscan cuisine: hell or heaven for any foodie who wants to explore the Florentine traditions deeply.

The people of Florence love tripe and consider this recipe the Queen of street food: along with “Lampredotto”, “Trippa alla Fiorentina” is served in almost any corner on the streets of Florence.

The tripe is reduced into stripes then slow cooked into tomatoes sauce and completed with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

If you are planning a few days in Florence, consider accepting the challenge to eat as real “Fiorentino” does!

TRIPE RECIPE FLORENTINE WAY (trippa fiorentina) All You Need To Know!

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Filed Under: Entrées, Food Story, Gluten Free, My Authentic Italian Recipes, Paleo, Recipes, Slow Cooked Tagged With: cow, entree, Florence, Florentine, food story, italian, meat, quinto quarto, tomatoes sauce, traditional, traditional Italian, tripe, Trippa, Trippa alla Fiorentina

AN ALTERNATIVE HAMBURGER IN FLORENCE – Gnam firenze

06/17/2015 by Filippo Trapella Leave a Comment

A hamburger in Florence - Gnam Firenze

Looking for the best hamburger in Florence.

Florence is a destination I’ve been visited frequently during my Italian travels (also because my wife’s parents live there!). If you are foodies, Florence it is a kind of paradise; tasty soups, crispy bruschettas, high quality products, and juicy steaks (click here to read how to cook a Florentine T-bone steak). It is missing only one single thing … a good hamburger with fries! Throughout my last foray into the Florence, my American spirit needed to be fulfill by a delicious burger with fries, but I knew it would be tough challenge satisfy my wish. Luckily I was wrong! After some research and a few failed attempts, I found a place that offers an innovative solution; Delicious organic burgers prepared with local ingredients combining the taste of one of American classics with a touch of Tuscan cuisine.

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Filed Under: Foodie Travels, Travelogs Tagged With: alternative, burger, Dalle nostre mani, eat in Florence, Firenze, Florence, food, Gnam, hamburger, italy, restaurant, tuscan, Tuscany, vegetarian, veggie burger, yum

FLORENTINE STEAK (Bistecca alla Fiorentina) – history and recipe

04/02/2015 by Filippo Trapella 37 Comments

The Florentine steak (called Bistecca alla Fiorentina or simply La Bistecca) is a serious matter in Florence, no jokes with the Ciccia (meat in Florentine slang)! The Tuscan cuisine has plenty of delicious dishes, but if you must choose only one of them, as your last meal, opt for La Bistecca!

Fiorentina steak - where to eat in Florence

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Filed Under: Entrées, Faster Than 45 Mins, Food Story, Gluten Free, My Authentic Italian Recipes, Paleo, Recipes Tagged With: Beef steak, Eat, Fiorentina, Firenze, Florence, food tour, Steak, street food, tuscan, Tuscany, Visiting

VISITING FIRENZE – What and where to eat in Florence

03/31/2015 by Filippo Trapella Leave a Comment

 

Visiting Florence, what and where toeat in Florence, Tuscan, Italy

Florence is well-known worldwide for its incomparable Renaissance history. In Florence, however, have been created several must-to-taste recipes of the Italian cuisine. Here was born Catherine de’ Medici, wife of Henry II of France, who imported in Paris the best Tuscan recipes, fundamental for the birth of French haute cuisine.

A few weeks ago I went back to Florence. I walked around the taverns, the market stalls and carts of street food. Read on and take a trip with me between grilled steaks, slow-cooked recipes, weird-but-tasty street food, vegetarian soups, crunchy bruschettas and local cheese of the Florentine tradition!

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Filed Under: Foodie Travels, Travelogs Tagged With: Beef steak, Caterina de medici, Catherine, Eat, Fiorentina, Firenze, Florence, food tour, lampredotto, meat, Medici, pappardelle, pasta, Steak, street food, Tusca, Tuscany, Visiting



























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