Zucchini and cheese, just that!Many Italian pasta recipes are very simple and easy to make!
The majority of the Italians, myself included, love pasta with vegetables.
If you are so lucky to have fresh vegetables from your garden, you will be happy to eat pasta and these vegetables every day! As I was, when my mom grew all kinds of them in our garden!

The "Spaghetti alla Nerano" is an excellent example of a simple but exquisite vegetable pasta recipe. It comes from Campania and includes ingredients typical of Neapolitan cuisine.

This pasta dish is an example of how little Italian towns can have their own specialties.Spaghetti alla Nerano" was invented in the fifties by a woman called Maria Grazia in her restaurant, the dish is named after the beach town where it was invented, Nerano, a small town on the Sorrento peninsula. Apparently, the restaurant still exists and is being run by her grandchildren! A simply wonderful dish created with so few ingredients, the secret is really in the quality of those ingredients and the technique used to make the creamy sauce that covers every strand of spaghetti.

The main ingredients:
The zucchini are the Italian kind, very small, sweet, green in color.The cheese should be Provolone del Monaco, a large, semi-aged, five-pound melon-shaped cheese. It's hard to find outside of the region, so Parmesan or caciocavallo could stand in.Provolone del Monaco, ?Monk?s Provolone? is a local cheese from the Sorrento pen...