Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Shopping guide -- Pasta -- Orecchiette pasta with broccoli -- Spaghetti with roasted tomatoes -- Spaghetti with green beans -- Pasta salad with raw tomatoes -- Carbonara with artichokes and courgettes -- Gnocchi with courgette pesto -- Pasta with chickpeas -- Spaghetti with breadcrumbs -- Stuffed pasta shells -- Spaghetti with fresh clams -- Penne pasta with salmon -- Oven-baked pasta -- Traditional lasagna -- Homemade pasta -- Risotto and Soup -- Prawn and lemon risotto -- Asparagus and carrot risotto -- Rice salad -- Vegetable soup -- Lentil soup -- Potato soup -- Chicken broth -- Fish soup -- Vegetables -- Green bean salad -- Potato salad with shallots -- Mushrooms with pancetta -- Peas with pancetta -- Deep-fried vegetables -- Roasted peppers -- Oven-baked fennel -- Golden baked cabbage -- Courgette parmigiana -- Potatoes with a scent of runaway lamb -- Minestrone vegetables -- Stuffed peppers -- Stuffed aubergines -- Beef tomatoes stuffed with rice -- Salento potato pie -- Potato cake -- Artichokes baked with potatoes and rice -- Fish -- Sea bream baked in foil -- Puglian sea bream -- Black cod with olives -- Roasted cod skewers -- Sea bass in a salt crust -- Steam-cooked tuna steak -- Sweet-and-sour tuna -- Salmon with green sauce -- Sole cooked in three ways -- Sole cooked in clarified butter -- Pan-fried sole -- Sole gratin -- Swordfish rolls -- Swordfish in tomato sauce -- Pan-cooked prawns with tomatoes -- Fried seafood -- Lobster tails in tomato sauce -- Stuffed squid with potatoes -- Octopus salad -- Oven-baked octopus with potatoes -- Calamari rings with tomato sauce -- Baby cuttlefish with peas -- Meat -- Juicy chicken with peas -- Chicken burgers -- Breaded chicken escalopes -- Sausage-scented potatoes -- Escalopes with mushrooms -- Pan-fried escalopes with cherry tomatoes.

Beef and potato stew -- Flattened meatballs with mozzarella -- Italian meatloaf -- Courgette boats -- Lamb chops braised in milk -- Lamb steaks with scrambled peas -- Oven-baked lamb cutlets with potatoes -- Bread and Pizza -- Tomato and olive focaccia -- Mozzarella crostini -- Tomato bruschetta -- Puff pastry pizza -- Alessandro’s pizza -- Snacks and Party Food -- Fennel seed ring-biscuits -- Spinach and ricotta frittata -- Asparagus frittata -- Arancini with mozzarella and mince -- Potato croquettes -- Stuffed deep-fried parcels -- Sweet Things -- Marzipan sweets with glacé cherries -- Chocolate almond bites -- Crispy ring-pastries -- Angel wings -- Apricot crostata -- Yoghurt cake -- Pastry cream dessert -- Yo-yo cakes -- Ring Cake -- Ricotta and chocolate semifreddo cake -- Chocolate-dipped shortbread -- Chocolate ‘salami’ -- Acknowledgements -- eCopyright.