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A colourful medley of cooked vegetables including eggplant, potatoes and tomoatos in an earthenware dish

A Recipe from Nonna with Love

A visit to Nonna’s house isn’t complete if you aren’t leaving with something delicious in your hands! Mangia, mangia, sono buone…

Explore the recipes from Nonna with love to inspire your own culinary creative skills. Tutto buonissimo!

There are 25 recipes here to enjoy both the cooking and the eating! ‘Food is love’, and there’s no better way of sharing heritage than spending kitchen time with your loved ones.

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Deep Dives

Close up image of fried fritters

Calabrian Fritters (Zippoli Calabrese)

Nonna Lena Agostino

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Layers of moist beef mince visible between sheets of pasta

Lasagne

Nonna Giulia Altieri

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Gnocchi in a tomato mince sauce, garnished with bright green basil leaves

Potato Gnocchi

Nonna Mimma Buti

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Vibrant orange prawns sit atop long strands of spaghetti garnished with parsley, on a black plate

Crayfish or Prawn Pasta

Nonna Anna Camarda

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A cooked artichoke with breadcrumb topping browned in the oven sits in a white baking dish on a green table cloth.

Carciofi Ripieni (Stuffed Artichokes)

Nonna Rosa Conti

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golden baked biscuits with an almond in the centre

Aeolian biscuits (Spicchitedda Eoliana)

Nonna Anne Ferrari

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Biscuits baked in a twisted shape and dusted with icing sugar.

Crostoli

Nonna Adele Forlani

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Long finger-shaped biscuits on a black countertop. One is snapped in half showing the airy centre and crumbs are on the surface of the bench it sits on.

Sicilian Savoiardi Biscuits (Giammelle con lo zucchero a velo)

Nonna Vincenza Mancuso

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a fork lays alongside moist tiramisu, on a plate dusted with cocoa

Tiramisu

Nonna Doris Marocchi

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uncooked gnocchi sit on a floured wooden board. A wooden gnocchi roller is visible in the upper left corner if the image

Potato Gnocchi

Nonna Vittoria Melia

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Sardine tail visible amongst rolled sardine fillets sprinkled in breadcrumbs

Stuffed Sardines with Tomato Sauce

Nonna Rosa Mendolia

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close up image of biscotti dusted in icing sugar

Nonna’s Biscotti (Like Aunty Concetta’s)

Nonna Frances Minervini

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On a blue plate rests a joint of cooked rabbit, smothered in a glistening mushroom sauce, and garnished with finely chopped parsley.

Nonna Mela’s Slow-Cooked Rabbit (Coniglio)

Nonna Carmela Paratore

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squid in a tomato sauce lie nestled on a bed of spaghetti in a green bowl.

Stuffed Squid and Spaghetti

Nonna Louisa Perroni

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A ball of crumbed and fried rice, with a meat sauce, cheese and pea filling. It is cut open to show the centre and sits on some parchment baking paper on a wooden board with a basil leaf garnish

Sicilian Arancini

Nonna Betty Pisconeri

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cooked, browned meat and bones served on top of yellow cooked polenta

Capretto (Slow-cooked goat)

Nonna Maria Pizzale

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fried dough balls in a pile on a plate, next to some proscuitto

Calabrian Fritters (Zippoli Calabrese)

Nonna Paola Pulitano

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A colourful medley of cooked vegetables including eggplant, potatoes and tomoatos in an earthenware dish

Maria’s Frittata

Nonna Maria Ricciardello

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A browned crumbed artichoke on a wooden board garnished with parsley

Italian Stuffed Artichokes (Carciofi Ripieni)

Nonna Marianna Re

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glazed shiny balls of fried dough in a shiny brass dish

Pignolata

Nonna Giuseppina Ricciardo

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long strands of spaghetti pasta tossed through a red sauce and topped with grated cheese. It sits on a white plate with a black rim.

Bucatini all’Amatriciana

Nonna Franca Roberti

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Browned cooked meatballs in a red tomato sauce and topped with finely grated cheese and parsley

Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

Nonna Giuseppina Saffioti

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fried oblong browned vegetable

Stuffed Eggplant (Melanzane Ripieni)

Nonna Rosie Ventrice

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Golden brown biscuits dusted with sugar sit on a white platter

Biscotti al Latte

Nonna Carolina Vinciullo

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Strands of spaghetti twirled around a fork in red sauce, in a white shallow bowl.

Calabrian Chilli Pepper Pasta

Nonna Maria Papalia

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A colourful medley of cooked vegetables including eggplant, potatoes and tomoatos in an earthenware dish

Frittata with love from Nonna Maria Ricciardello
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The Western Australian Museum acknowledges and respects the Traditional Owners of their ancestral lands, waters and skies.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this digital guide may include images, sounds, and names of now deceased persons.