(photo: chicken soup with tortellini) 1. Pasta e Fagioli Pasta e fagioli is found in every region of Italy and the only two common ingredients tend to be beans and pasta.  In northern Italy, you’ll find cranberry beans used for the dish while in some southern provinces you’ll often see cannellini beans.  You’ll also hear folks refer to it incorrectly […]

We love soup at Scordo.com and we’re not very picky when it comes to the variety. However, we do have a couple of pet peeves about soup preparation: Soup must be homemade (we’re vehemently opposed to canned soup). Homemade soup must start with water and not pre-packaged chicken, beef, or vegetable stock (there are some exceptions), but we generally like to […]