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Cheese Focaccia, not in Recco

Focaccia al formaggio

Cheese focaccia, not in Recco.
Obviously the best and most famous cheese focaccia is the one eaten in Recco (and surrounding areas) but in many parts of Liguria you can find excellent ones.
This one, for example, is the very good one from Due Gabbiani in Casarza Ligure.

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Focaccia al formaggio

It is a DOP and there is even a consortium that defends its name: focacciadirecco.it. The one in the photo, very good for me (even if I don't think it is DOP) is the one from the pizzeria iduegabbiani.it in Sestri Levante.

Focaccia with cheese (sometimes but improperly focaccia al formaggio), in Genoese a fugassa cö formaggio, is a type of stuffed focaccia typical of Liguria and Oltregiogo. Focaccia with cheese exists in numerous versions, with surface fillings that include either just cheese (of various types, sometimes mixed together), or other ingredients (cheese and cooked ham, cheese and würstel, speck and fontina, etc.). The ingredients include flour, extra virgin olive oil, and obviously the chosen cheese, which is placed on top of the dough before putting it in the oven.
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A slice of excellent focaccia with Ligurian cheese – Une tranche d’excellente focaccia au fromage ligure – Un trozo de excelente focaccia con queso de Liguria – Uma fatia de excelente focaccia com queijo da Ligúria – Ein Stück ausgezeichnete Focaccia mit ligurischem Käse – Một lát focaccia hảo hạng với phô mai Ligurian – 一片优质佛卡夏配利古里亚奶酪 – リグーリア産チーズを添えた絶品フォカッチャのスライス
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Tiramisu: one of the most popular coffee desserts in Italy

tiramisu

Tiramisu: one of the most popular coffee desserts in Italy.
One of the classic desserts in my area is tiramisu. You can't leave the pizzeria without it. The one in the photo, for example, is from the Due Gabbiani pizzeria in Casarza Ligure.
Almost always homemade with mascarpone, eggs, sugar and biscuits (the must are Savoiardi) in this case served in a cup.

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tiramisu

Photo taken with iPhone 6.

Tiramisu is a traditional dessert and food product spread throughout Italy, whose origins are debated and attributed mainly to Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is a spoon dessert made with ladyfingers (or other biscuits with a crumbly consistency) soaked in coffee and covered with a cream made of mascarpone, eggs and sugar, which in some variations is flavoured with liqueur.
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Tiramisu: one of the most popular coffee desserts in Italy – Tiramisu : l’un des desserts au café les plus populaires en Italie – Tiramisú: uno de los postres de café más populares de Italia – Tiramisu: uma das sobremesas de café mais populares da Itália – Tiramisu: eines der beliebtesten Kaffeedesserts in Italien – Tiramisu: một trong những món tráng miệng cà phê phổ biến nhất ở Ý
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Pansoti with walnut sauce from Settembrin: among the best

pansotti di settembrin

Pansoti with walnut sauce from Settembrin: among the best.
One of the specialties of the trattoria from Ou Settembrin in Carasco are pansoti with walnut sauce. And they are perhaps among the best in the area.

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If you prefer ravioli, go and see my article with my personal ranking of the restaurants where I ate the best ravioli with ragù in the Province of Levante Genoa.

I certainly couldn't help but publish a nice photo of it:

pansoti di settembrin

Photo taken with iPhone 6.

Here's where the restaurant is located:

Pansoti, pansòti in Ligurian, (from the Ligurian pansa, in Italian “belly”), are a typical stuffed pasta of Ligurian cuisine, similar to ravioli, from which they differ essentially in size and the absence of meat in the filling. Pansoti with walnut sauce (pansöti co-a sarsa de noxe) are one of the cheapest and most characteristic dishes of the Genoese tradition. Since pansoti do not contain meat, they are a lean dish, once considered suitable for the penitential period of Lent. They are often mistakenly also called “pansòtti”, as in some Ligurian provinces there is verbal emphasis on the last syllables; the double letter is therefore to be attributed to an exclusively vocal language.
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A plate of pansoti with walnut sauce – Une assiette de pansoti sauce aux noix – Un plato de pansoti con salsa de nueces – Um prato de pansoti com molho de nozes – Ein Teller Pansoti mit Walnusssauce – Một đĩa pansoti sốt quả óc chó – 一盘核桃酱意粉 – クルミソースのパンソティのプレート
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Sushi Nigiri

Sushi Nigiri

Sushi Nigiri.
Pranzo al nuovo ristorante giapponese di piazza Piccapietra a Genova. Io mi butto sul piatto di sushi misto (anche se il mio preferito è il nigiri).

Sushi Nigiri

Photo taken with iPhone 6.

Il sushi è un insieme di piatti tipici della cucina giapponese a base di riso insieme ad altri ingredienti come pesce, alghe, vegetali o uova. Il ripieno è crudo e può essere servito appoggiato sul riso, arrotolato in una striscia di alga, disposto in rotoli di riso o inserito in una piccola tasca di tofu.
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