Recipes from Italy are based on fresh local ingredients. Often the recipes are quite simple and based on few ingredients. The fewer the ingredients, the higher is the quality and freshness required from each of them.
More often than not the daily menus are designed right at the market based on what is cheap, fresh and easy available at the moment.
This approach allows the cook to prepare cheap dinner recipes that utilize only what is at hand. Using local foods allows cheap healthy recipes that are not only good for us but also for the planet in terms of energy savings.
Italy is very diverse and the territory is fragmented in many climates and local traditions, certainly the produce you are able to find in Milan are not the same you’ll find in Naples.
What unifies the Italian way of cooking, is this immediate and spontaneous approach, more than specific ingredients. In fact the Italian style is adaptable to most situations and food variety.
Le Marche region, for its position right at the center of Italy offers a good balance in the use of the typical ingredients from northern Italy and those from the south.
In this collection of recipes from Le Marche we try to offer an inspiring answer to the daily quest for cheap easy recipes.